Alisande, what a great post. This answers so many questions, especially what to do when the vines keep moving upwards. Now I know to turn the vine down on itself. I'm so glad you e-mailed this man. This should be filed in a classic section. Thanks so much!!!

I've seen this before but always enjoy watching it! It's amazing and the photography is breathtaking. Did you ever imagine your plants wiggled around so much, lol?!

flora, so thoughtful of you to provide the link. it didn't work for me, but google quickly did so now i'm getting a renewed geography lesson on great britain. i find it such fun as an older person to get into geography because i bring so much more knowledge, and references , to the table of connecting things!so, rather than waste my time feeling stupid, i just get on w/ the excitement of learning! at any rate,i certainly never would have thought of 'sw' including the area due west of london, but there you are. SO. on our one(march!)trip to eng, we did go to bath and westward (tresco abbey being the furthest west in england that we went). google says that bath is 4 hrs from lands end. are you near bath(what a lovely place) or maybe in gloucestershire?( i haven't been there.) i won't waste time repeating the old adage and everything, but i will tell you that even in march we found tresco to be a real treat. actually, it was the first time i ever saw(consciously, anyway)echium. i'm guessing that it doesn't grow many places in GB(?); maybe up at that fairy community in scotland, with the gulf stream and palm trees and everything? I think of echium as kind of like a cross between blue buddleia and acanthus, on MEGA steroids! Now i see echium when we go to carmel CA every march, and there are few plants i love more! anyway, lord knows you live in the land of great gardens every place you look, but i hope you'll treat yourself someday soon- and go there, to tresco. and have you been to the lost garden of heligan? i bet that has really shaped up since we were there at the very beGINNing of that restoration, whenever that was..... best, mindy p.s. i had no IDEA that it looks like you could walk from ireland to scotland in a short time....! the other night we watched a (dreadful) travel film of scotland, but we at least learned that it was settled by irish people, so now i get it. onward with my map study!.......

Elizabeth I wish I could take credit. A friend sent me the video and I thought it was pretty and decided to post it. My DS knows more about the features on my camera and takes better pics then me. lol