Still in one piece after the storm (even apples still on the tree). Luckily, it wasn't too bad where I am in Eastbourne - a couple of potted plants blew over and that was about it. We'd had more rain earlier in the week than what we had during the storm.
Thank you. I just have had to be careful that it doesn't get into the guttering and bugger it up. It's been interesting to watch it grow and spread like a triffid. First time of growing. It doesn't have suckers or rootlets on its vines (like ivy, or climbing hydrangea) but does effectively cling and spread along brick without support, mostly by tenacity, it seems. It has got cantilever physics down to a fine art. I haven't tied it in at all. The plant could have been three to four times larger if I had had space for it. I might try it in a different sunny spot next year. I think it likes to bake.
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border