hi, thanks for the welcome... Ive lived here for 4 years and never knew what this lovely plant was at the bottom of my garden. It attracts lots of bees in the summer and little hedgehogs hide in there during the autumn and winter. In the last 2 weeks I became the owner of a tortoise who has had a rocky start in her first 5 years of life. Im hoping to give her a wonderful home, and from what ive been reading these plants make excellent food for a hermanns tortoise! They just keep growing and growing no matter how hard I cut them back so im sure there will be plenty to share between the bees hedgehogs and tortoise!