Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is a very vigorous climber. Creeper is not really the right word for it! My father planted this one years ago but the mass of greenery is one year's growth. I cut it down to the ground in winter every year and by mid-September (when this photo was taken) it's practically up to the roof again.

 

  P. quinquefolia is spectacularly deciduous: always one of the first plants to change colour in autumn and fiery red. The photo above was taken in mid-October.

 The leaves turn from green to red in the space of a week or two. They fall with equal rapidity as shown in this photo taken at the end of October.