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Climbing beans always anti clockwise?

LoanaLoana Posts: 427
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Hi all, i'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but why do my climbing beans always go up the canes in an anti-clockwise direction?

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  • Richard HodsonRichard Hodson Posts: 790

    I read somewhere, I know I will be corrected on this, but plants that originate from the Southern hemisphere have this characteristic, like the water down the plughole.

    If so, I would have thought that they would have reverted when brought up North.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Just because they do ... some plants twine one way and some twine the other ... the wonderful Flanders & Swann wrote a song about it

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYr0eNtpDHs 

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Brilliant!  Thanks Pansy image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Richard HodsonRichard Hodson Posts: 790

    Amazing.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    As an aside, thale cress is used for studying plant genetics because of it's super quick lifecycle (from seed to flower to seed again in 6 weeks), so it's nice to see a particularly annoying weed put to a good use! image

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • LoanaLoana Posts: 427

    Thank you pansy, what a revelation ?

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