in the southern hemisphere, do they go clockwise? Do we have any
members in Australia or New Zealand who raise pole beans?

Inquiring minds want to know!

(Oh, and at the risk of contaminating a perfectly good discussion with
facts, "the vast majority of twining vines wind around a support in a
right-handed direction, about 10% twine in a left-handed direction,
and a very few are able to twine in both directions."
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/Sig...ford-emily.pdf
).