Climbing Vine “invading” the Tree

As I have mentioned on other posts, recovering and tweaking the backyard was the first step we took when beginning the house remodeling project. All of you who actually know plant names, please bear with me because that’s another of those things that I haven’t managed to become as knowledgeable about as I would like to be. We had previously planted the pink Clematis (I think it is) and two other lovely flowering climbing vines in these wonderful planters that hubby built. Interestingly, of the three vines, only the pink one has year-round blooms. The other two cycle in and out, although the leaves are usually nice.

The tall slender trees were part of the new landscaping and what we we’re expecting was that the pink would shoot over and start climbing up the tree next to it. I was a bit concerned at first, but both plants appear to be doing okay and so I guess it isn’t anything to worry about. The pink also seems as if it might be trying to spread out to the next planter box where the climbing vine of chocolate raspberry (whatever the real name is) resides. I have a feeling that it won’t take as kindly to incursion as the tree has. I will keep an eye on it though because I don’t want to risk the other vine having problems.