Thank you; Evan Lin Sandi Dave! Evan, I had the plant in a pot originally. it is a crawler in lieu of a climber. The plant was as long out of the pot as it was in it, so, I just planted it in the ground last Fall and it has 2 sprouts now shown. The stem is on the ground between the two plants.It is about 2.5'' in DIa. Looks like every year I should at least obtain this amount of growth. Pictures don't do the slightly iridescent Emerald Green leaves justice.