Beginner Gardening: Silver lace vine yes or no, 1 by mwhit

mwhit wrote:
This is mine from several years ago. We loved it. It was so thick and beautiful we had to prune it very hard about every other year, It would fill the bed of my husband's full sized pick-up with trimmings. But when it was in full bloom and the wind blew it looked like it was snowing petals-Beautiful!! My only problem with it was the Japanese Beetle LOVED it!! We had to spray with Sevin and it literally rained dead and dying bugs for hours afterward! Really gross!
It just didn't come back after a particularly harsh winter so we replaced it with a Sweet Autumn Clematis which I like a lot. we prune it hard every fall soon after bloom to avoid re-seeding which can prove invasive.