Steve - I second the use of honeysuckle. Yes, it's invasive. Yes, it's a Triffid (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...) but they smell wonderful, vine gorgeously, grow w/o any help, and are almost evergreen (even in my environment it's evergreen). Spring 2013 I will be pulling out that Cecile Brunner rose & redoing that area with the 2 honeysuckles I have (I have to move a few roses as they've outgrown the area I put them stupidly in... my Charles de Mills is the most thorniest rose I have & he wasn't supposed to be thorned at ALL, which is why I put him where I put him). I have a Purple Japanese honeysuckle & a Hall's honeysuckle in that area and both are friggin' weeds. I have to install an arbor or something to keep the thing from eating the house, unlike my other Hall's Honeysuckle on the other side of the house which is eating the house, or the one on the south side of the house that has grown up 12' this year. I'm thinking about mixing a Virginia Creeping vine so I have some awesome color in the fall.
