How can I make vines grow on my house?

I love the way a house looks with vines on it. How can I acheive this look?





I am thinking that I can't grow vines over wood siding, but what about concrete? Also which vines are good? Ivy perhaps, but what about honeysuckle? How long does it take for a vine to cover a wall?





Thanks in advance!

How can I make vines grow on my house?
You can grow vines on your house w/out damage, as long as you make sure the vines cannot connect to anything made of wood or wood fiber.


Star Jasmine is my favorite clinging vine. It grows super fast, is very pretty and smells like a flower shop.


Good luck.
Reply:Vines will even destroy concrete. Use a strong trellis, away from the house, and keep checking to make sure they don't grow into the house. Be responsible, don't use invasive species like honeysuckle. Check with your county co-operative extension to see what plants are invasive for your area, and don't use them or you'll be the terror of your neighborhood.
Reply:English Ivy is the fastest growing vine on a house but it could take a few years to get a wall covered ( maybe 5 years) but remember when you cover a wall or building, you get a lot of spiders, red ants, black ants, anything that crawls inside the house plus you have birds making nests in it, butterflies nesting, pigeons, morning doves love vines and sometimes snakes crawl under the vine so think carefully before you start the vine. root pieces of vine and plant it about 12" apart and it will grow fast and GOOD LUCK i ripped it off my house
Reply:VInes are awfully hard on homes. Research this more before you consider doing it.


On a personal note, I recently got rid of honeysuckle growing on our fence. It gets heavy, unruly and attracts bumblebees. Be careful with it.
Reply:sorry to disagree but brick will not do fine with a vine. the little suckers of the vine are feeding on the minerals in the mortar. you will have a lot of repointing to do down the road not to mention all the hard work getting the vine down after it destroys your house. they trap moisture and your siding never really dries out. do as some of the others said and keep it confined to a trellis away from the house...
Reply:Don't grow it directly on your house. Set up an arbor or lattice adjacent to your house for it to grow on, and keep it pruned and trained to stay away from the actual building structure.





Vines can be very invasive and will grow through cracks and create large holes and openings. It can even grow through walls and begin to come through your inner walls.
Reply:I have a brick house and have vines all over it. They do require some work since they grow up and get thick at the top. They also grow over the windows and are very good at gripping the house. I love the look and would not be without them.
Reply:english ivy is a vining plant that will climb a trellis if trained (and there are others, including various roses).





as prior respondents have said, though,





DO NOT ALLOW IT TO CLIMB THE HOUSE ITSELF!!!





as this will allow it to destroy the structural integrity of your home.





if you do choose to plant a vining plant at your house, check with the Master Gardener at your local extension service (usually run by the state's agricultural college) and make sure that what you have in mind is a NATIVE NON-INVASIVE species
Reply:I sell Real Estate and PLEASE don't do this. Yes, it looks pretty, but it totally destroys all types of homes and is so hard to remove when you eventually need to. You can't paint, repair, or otherwise do anything to the exterior of the home if you have vines growing all over it. Eventually they creep into the brick and mortar, or under and between the wood or vinyl. Vines are totally destructive. It can also make the home harder to sell or lower it's market value, because many people know the vines are destructive and take a great deal of work to get rid of.





If you want something pretty, do an arbor with a border around it to contain the creeping vines. Also, there are other ways to "pretty up" the outside of the home, like changing the color of the trim, adding shutters, or doing landscaping.
Reply:you could try growing something in every corner of your house that would attracted vines to grow.
Reply:there are all kinds of viners ,for the ones that use feelers .or shoots that twine around branches .you can start it off using chicken wire nailed to the wall





but there are many that suck onto the concrete ,bark of trees or wood


if it is on wood it will rot the wood


on concrete it is speeded up a lot if you keep the wall moist


have a drip system that is on top of the wall at least to start it of





and plant the vines (,like vanilla ,ivy,and there is a wide range or sucker or parasitic creeper plants )all along the bottom of the wall and keep it moist and use organic fretilizers





Honey sukle would do better if you used chicken wire


as to how long it takes depends on where you are and how the conditions are with the climate of the wall.


many vines do better in the shade ,,





in my garden which is humid tropics it takes about 2 years to cover a wall completely
Reply:Hi! Bear in mind how it blends in with the rest of the house, yard, other flowers, etc.
Reply:do you really want that? spiders, all kinds of insects a snake or two, love the ivy, it will ruin your home if you train it to crawl there, then the day will come you will want them off the house or wall and that will cost you to remove and have someone take it alway. may i suggest a trellis somewhere in the yard that you can see from a window, and plant a vine clinging flower that will grow on it, jazmine is terrific honeysuckle if it grows in your climate and smells wonderful...just a friendly suggestion....
Reply:I agree with the others who said you should put something for your vines to climb on besides your house. I do think it looks pretty. You could just make it look like it's climbing on your house. :)
Reply:I believe once you set up the lattice they just start growing on it. At first you have to weave them into it but they just take to it after that. How long it takes depends on how many you put and it will probably take a few seasons to cover a whole wall.
Reply:I made the mistake of growing vines on my cedar siding once; BAD idea. I had to chop the entire thing down when I repainted, plus scrape all the little suckers off that clung to the house.


I don't see a problem with planting vines on concrete though. Honeysuckle won't work however, unless it's given a support. And it gets woody so it needs a very STURDY support. Try the yellow/white kind; it's the most fragrant, and doesn't seem to be prone to powdery mildew.


Trumpet vine would work well on concrete. It sends out little suckers that will cling to anything with some texture. It takes several years to really get going, but when it starts blooming, you'll be rewarded with hummingbirds. I like the idea of several differents types of vines planted alternately; clematis paniculata (Sweet Autumn) is another choice you might be interested in. It will grow a good ten feet or more a year if planted in full sun. My sister has it growing up the bricks of her garage.
Reply:i would not do this if this is you're house it will eventually rot even if it is concrete and mold will form,
Reply:u can not make vines grow on your house
Reply:GO PLANT SOME DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:Don't do it on the house.... they'll destroy it. Set up a Arbor about 18-24" away from the house for them to gro on.
Reply:You can grow vines over wood siding ... a friend of mine has a bitttersweet vinevine that has grown up both stories of her wood-sided Victorian farmhouse for many years....


.......and of course, concrete and brick will do fine ...





...you can use plain ivy, bittersweet, honeysuckle, clematis, trumpet vine, grapes, wisteria and the annual vines: morning glories and moon vines ...





....how long depends upon the growing conditions and the kind of vine .... and the annual ones mentioned will climb up a storey of a house in about 5 weeks, and keep climbing and blooming until cold weather sets in....





to ascertain times for the perennials, check your plant or seed supplier ....





Personally, I would choose something that had a lovely scent, like honeysuckle





...you can also have climbing roses.... those are lovely, especially if you can reach them out the second storey window ... and there is nothing to say that you cannot plant two kinds of vine going up one wall ...





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Reply:I would not do this if this is you're house it will eventually rot even if it is concrete and mold will form,
Reply:You really dont want vines to grow on the outside of your house. I cut the ivy off the chimney everytime I mow my lawn. The vines will ruin the outside of your home. With that said I have a Wysteria growing on an arbour it is beautiful and while it takes a while for it to get established and flower it is definately worth the wait.
Reply:I'd think twice about that. My parents' house had english ivy growing on it (it's a brick house) and it gets into the cracks and breaks the cement apart, and even if you pull it off, the little suckers stick in there and re sprout! Plus, if you don't keep it trimmed it will grow up through the vents and into the attic.





Another problem is that, while it's really cute to have birds nest in the ivy, and fun to watch, they have a way of attracting snakes! Many times I had to look closely before I turned on the water spigot because there was a snake lurking in the ivy!! SO, be careful.
Reply:I think to grow plants you need water!
Reply:hmmmm lemme see, don't quite know I have never done this b4. And what do these people mean that u r a celebrity.

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