I ended up cutting a lot more back yesterday than I expected. I had no idea that mulch would make my flowerbeds look so nice, either, and I ended up going with a black mulch. I'm now planning on covering the other front bed and cutting out larger beds along both sides of the house. Unfortunately I'm going to have to pull up a bunch of bulbs, but I haven't decided yet what to do with them. They sit too close together and too close to the house making it easy for the vines to climb and difficult for me to get in there to tear it all out.
Bonehead, do you have a local neighborhood board like nextdoor neighbor or on facebook that you could ask around for leaves on?
