Steve Kind wrote:
....
The other cane (this year's fruiting cane) looks healthy -
though I
think there may be less flowers on it than usual.

The only change I can think of is that the briar is right next
to an
outside toilet that we are re-furbishing. A couple of weeks ago
we
laid new concrete on the existing cracked and broken floor - it
is
possible that some limey water seeped down to the roots. When I
thought of this yestrday I doused the area round the cane with
rainwater from the tanks - and it rained heavily later. This
morning
the droopy stem is beginning to come upright again

probably it.


songbird