You'll be better off if you skip the Cup of Gold Vine, it would only work for you if you intended it to grow along the roof eave line and over the roof. Better/more controllable vines choices in your color scheme would probably include Star Jasmine, a Sasanqua Camellia, Gelsemium sempervirens, or the gold leaf form of Jasminum polyanthemum.

Renee, I believe that Cup of Gold vine is a rampant grower (I think, I have read 30 feet!), so you might ran into the same problem like you did with the yellow climbing rose you were growing before in the that spot.

But on the other hand someone in our neighborhood is growing a Cup of Gold vine on the side of their garage, which has roughly the same height like your house. So it seems to be possible that with pruning and training you can keep it in check, but I have no idea how much work that would be.

The iris, which you planted already, has an absolutely lovely yellow color that would go so well with the color of Solandra Maxima.

Hope others, who have more experience with this vine will chime in here. Good luck finding the right plant for the location in front of your house!

Christina

Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Garden Dreams

You should look into espaliered plants-everything from Apples cold weather edibles, to Calliandra, a tropical.Or,how about a Mandevilla vine like the red hybrids? Very easy to grow and keep in bounds. You might even grow it in a nice ornamental pot to match the house.Just add light duty trellis.

After looking at the iris you are trying to complement, I would recommend Pandorea pandorana 'Golden Showers' as the perfect accent. Better size wise for the wall you want to cover, and the scale of the flowers and foliage will be in better scale for viewing from. There are also some soft yellow Abutilon hybrids which could work well as a trellis/espalier, but they need more work to keep them looking presentable year round, even if they do have a longer bloom season than the Pandorea.

Thanks for the ideas, all. I love the color of Pandorea pandorana. I'm going to plant everything else and think hard about how much I want to prune there.
Renee

Here at the local trader joe's shopping center they grow cup-of-gold as a vertical shrub, with about 6 or 8 main stems trained vertically and kept to about 6'. It makes a surprisingly nice shrub! They simply keep it trimmed. Of course this involves regular trimming...

the second picture here shows it trimmed as a shrub against columns at the shopping center. It can be done...

Here is a link that might be useful: solandra maxima trained as vertical shrub