Beginner Gardening: Please help me hide this thing!, 1 by childofthecorn

childofthecorn wrote:
Who wouldn't want to hide this thing?! It's a steel I-beam stuck in a big hunk of concrete, and was hit by a semi... or perhaps several semis (on a no-semi street).

What I want to plant is a type of evergreen vine or ivy that will climb it, without having to run string from the ground to the top of the pole (although it might improve the shape of the mound of foliage - I'm open to suggestions about that as well), but I would like to have something that's not just solid green all year long.

It's in about half sun, half shade (from a tree).

I have more pictures to post, and will add other details with the pictures.