Don't try this at home, lol

Sometimes what seems like a good idea at the time turns out to be not so good! I planted Lavender trumpet vine, cryptostegia, and it didn't grow fast enough to suit me so I put a passiflora x decaisneana in the mix, along with P. foetida, sweet potato vine, P. vitifolia and I think there's a purple passiflora in the mix too(can't remember the name, it blooms in the fall, leaves look like decaisneana). There is a gate under this mess. I put a piece of thin bendable wood over the gate in an arch. The arch is arching the wrong way now, lol. I can't open the gate, have to go thru the garage and into the house to get from the side yard to the back yard...............this was not a good idea!
Oh yeah, the Lady Margaret and Blue Sky vine from the other side of the fence, along with a jasmine Maid of Orleans are growing thru to the outside too. There may also be a stephanotis vine in there somewhere too. I got a little carried away, lol.

ah, I think you may have my dream fence there Susie........
can you picture it ALL blooming???

I think Cala is trying to keep somebody out! I wonder who.....lol!!! Can't wait to see it all bloom.
:) Donna

I have GOT to find an archway, I can't stand having to go thru the whole house to get to the back yard and I don't want to break my vines!

LOL! Susie, that's got to be some show when all those vines are blooming! Don't worry about getting in the house Just cut you another door!

Kay

Lol! I am grateful that the neighbor on one side does not mind vines and brugs crawling over the fence. (Their idea of landscaping is a van in the back yard.) Vines do run amok. I just put out the door part of a security door for one passi and the frame part will be for another vine. Got them free from someone taking it out to put in a new door. Heavy though.

Neat, Susie. The vines that ate the fence, gate and all. LOL

Cala, the one you mentioned that has a leaf like Decaisneana, could it be either Macrocarpa (kinda a lavendar flower) or Purple Tiger (red flower)?
Mark

Wow, it sounds crazy but your photo is really cool. I like 'wild and wooly' vines. Which one is the vine with the giant leaves? I may have to plant one of those, it's so pretty!

Christina

Christina, it is passiflora x. decaisneana, a fall flowering passiflora.
I fixed the archway. I meant to get another picture but the past two weeks have been so hectic for me. My DH put two pieces of 2 x 4 up with a 2 x 2 cross beam. I wound the passiflora around the top beam. I had to cut the India rubber vine, it was too woody and was growing in the wrong direction. It grows fast and I'm sure it will take over agian in no time!

For once, I may believe it if you said you do not have room for one more vine.........but only there!!! You have the rest of your huge yard for them Susie. I am so jealous.

Kell, I have almost 2 acres but you must remember that DH is a grass fanatic! He won't let me dig up the yard(though my beds tend to get a little wider every time I edge them).

i told ya what to do with that grass....lol

CC, he told me yesterday that I could do whatever I wanted with my flowerbeds(wonder if that meant dig up the grass?). I told him there was a place in the corner that I wanted to dig up the grass and plant elephant ears. He said OK because it's hard to mow that corner.
I think my bed along the east side of the fence will grow wider when he's not looking! Besides, the fancy grass he has doesn't grow well there; it's mostly something we call "yard weed"(prostrate, fuzzy leaves, yellow flowers, native to TX) so he shouldn't notice the difference, lol.