Of all the plants that are growing around me, it is the one I have been caring about the most that has given up on me. The creeper on the northern wall of my terrace is dying. That is, one of its main branches has dried up quite suddenly in mid-season. Half of the leaves that have provided some privacy from the neighbors and tourists alike have wilted by now. They will fall off in a few days. For visual protection, I will have to resort to plastic sheeting of some kind. But I now have to decide what to plant in the dying creeper’s place. And I think I have the solution: the creeper that grows on the southern wall of my terrace, which actually comes from a planter on the neighbor’s terrace below. No matter what I do to it, it grows like crazy. It strikes me as indestructible. Its bean-like seedpods have grown hefty by now, and there will be plenty of seeds in a short while. It should not be too hard to come up with a bunch of sprightly seedlings that will survive the winter. The only precondition for the creeper’s success seems to be that I leave it to its own devices.