In message , Nick Maclaren
writes
| My daughter in Norfolk has had one for three, maybe four years. It looks
| very happy, but no sign of flowers so far. From this thread it could be
| drainage - but then would it look so happy - or earwigs - but could they
| destroy every flower on something so large?

No. Nor even on a small one.

Do the tops waggle free of support? Because it won't develop flowering
shoots until they do.

They definitely waggle, she assures me.

From some of the other comments, though, does it begin to look as if
I've given her a poisoned chalice? Her garden is small...

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Klara, Gatwick basin