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Comment by martin_a

9 hours ago

Don't they damage the underlying brick work or other stuff? I think I've heard something like that before.

The kind with piercing tendrils does, but the species I listed have glue pads that cause no harm.

You do need to manage windows and gutters. What you do is pull the vine of off the border of the window and leave it dangling in the air (a little bit of it). This signals to the vine that it reached the end of what it's sitting on, and it will stop growing there. (If you cut it instead, it thinks it has an opportunity.)