1. The virginia creeper was a little more luxuriant perhaps and the wood-work had been newly painted and was whiter than she remembered.

2. Virginia creeper needs to be clipped back from windows and hauled out of gutters.

3. And that is why the virginia creeper plant turns a lovely red colour in the autumn.

4. The Virginia creeper we planted last year has run riot and covered half the wall.

5. Yet the whole was harmonious, welded together beneath the vast expanse of Virginia creeper which covered the walls to the eaves.

6. Then wasps; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest.