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A lot of plants are, like stragglers from a hen night, not very good at remaining upright without some support. (Although they are much less likely to wear unnecessarily short skirts or disgrace themselves in shop doorways).I'm very lucky to live

flurry of blackbirds that descend upon the plants and quickly strip them of berries (not the best photograph but they are very jumpy).I get a bit fernickety over supporting wires for climbers. I like them to be as tight as guitar strings, so I always use

, let alone a tree - I know of herbaceous plants that achieve that height in a season. It's difficult to choose a tree that is guaranteed not to get any bigger than the height of a short giraffe, but here is a small selection that roughly fits the bill

.Well maybe not everybody - at most parties there are always a few stalwarts who just keep on dancing. In the garden many of these are grasses. They hang about in the background for most of the summer, providing support for the showier plants. They gaze