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Victoria Clare writes:
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| I don't think the one-year shoots were ever 3/4" across though - maybe Nick
| had a mega-vigorous variety, though I seem to remember I clipped mine
| pretty regularly then, so I could take just the soft stuff off, not the
| hard woody spikes. I had time to do that sort of thing when I had a small
| garden...

No, just ordinary :-)

It was in the open, in very fertile, well-drained soil, in full
light, in one of the parts of the country with warmish summers.
It was also c. 40 years old - I must plane a section of wood I
took (and has now dried) and count the rings.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.