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Another thing to think about are bugs, especially spiders ! Ivy and other vines can harbor lots of assorted insects and they will be living really close to the doors and windows !
You don't say in what part of the country you live but Passion Flower vine is lovely, quite easy to maintain and you'll eventually have the beautiful flowers followed by the fruit. The vines have tendrils, not suckers so there's little damage from them. Cheers!
I think I'm going to axe the vine idea for now...
On to the next project, staining interior doors. One down several more to go grr!
Ahhh the things we do for our houses
When I first moved to Tacoma Wa. many years back I got a kick out of all the trees growing on the downtown roof tops and all the ferns growing out of the brick walls of the old buildings. The city has modernized a lot and I'm not sure if those still are there. The trees on the roofs were not in planters !
Ivy is a great plant - for erosion control on someone else's property. All it needs is a little care and napalm to manage it.
Here in the south we have a cute little vine - kudzu. Of course if you plant it on your fence, and go away for the weekend, it will take over the fence, the house, the house next door, the trees on the street.........
As a home inspector, I see the results of vines growing on things all the time. NONE of it has good results.
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If you ever get a wild hair and decide that you would like to transform your old cyclone fence into a blackberry bramble, undecide that.
If you ever decide to go crazy and plant some morning glory on a bamboo trellis in the backyard, undecide that too. Immediately. It doesn't matter how good your intentions are or how dedicated you think you will be, you can not control morning glory. It will get a toe-hold at the insertion point and sprout some attractive purple flowers. Everyone oos and ahs. While you're busy admiring the flowers, the plant is performing a reconnaisance in force across the lawn, over the fence into your neighbor's yard, up the walls of your house and into the attic. Before you know it you have been overrun by big ropes of morning glory and your fence is leaning under the strain of a giant, hostile, amorphous biomass that laughs heartily at your pathetic counter-attacks.
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will growing vines to cover a metal fence damage/shift the fence in any way?
I'm talking about morning glory or something similar. maybe passion flower.
About morning glory, HELL YES! It will cover the bejeezus out of your metal fence.
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I've let wild grapes take that over. 
