Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
I do not like to see a vine on a live tree because it keeps the bark from drying and eventually it rots the tree and it is a slow death. I will try to get a picture tomorrow.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29