Now I can even be smug looking at my runner beans running up,there locally sourced hazel twigs. Got one or two old bamboo canes to hide first though.
Oh envy......we have a coppice planted up, but the hazels aren't big enough to cut yet. There's willow but they don't seem to grow long and straight enough for bean poles. I hate buying in bamboo, and you never know what beasties you're getting with them. Maybe next year I'll have bean poles of my own.
ps bamboo goes up like firecrackers if you chuck them on the bonfire