I have been doing the same thing by using some small gauge green electrical "hookup" wire and bending it to a similar shape. It allows my Pothos and Anthurium to dangle their roots from the side of the tank. Drilling a hole in the driftwood seems equally workable although then if the wood is floating you will potentially be blocking light to any plants below. Also the wood may eventually become water logged and want to sink.
Yeah I don't think floating the wood is viable. The plant itself will add weight and the wood will want to tip. My wood is being held up by rocks underneath it.
Doing it right now in my shallow build.
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Rabbit's foot fern. I didn't attach it to the wood or drill holes, just set it on top of the wood. The roots have grown into the wood a bit since then and its definitely 'attached' now. If looking for ways to suspend a plant in the water if you don't have a good driftwood base look into wabi kusa hooks.
That's a huge plant, you would need either a really big piece of wood or one that is very well situated. You could do it by sticking one into the wood in the water the other end coming up out of the water, and using a bracket with a stainless steel screw to attach the wood by hanging it over the edge of the glass. Does that make sense?
So if you had a bracket you could hang over the edge of the glass, you could attach that bracket to a piece of driftwood with a stainless steel screw. This would give you a very secure way of making sure that wood wouldn't slide out or otherwise change positions when you put a giant plant on top of it.
