Darwin!
I'm sure Miss C was doing nothing more than fiddling with her clematis and toying with her lobelia
Yes, flitting from bed to bed with a fork in each one.
You are, of course, both quite correct.
My trailing lobelia have been admired by many; why only this morning whilst in the garden, Graham my elderly neighbour, took them in his horny hands and pinched out a few dead bits for me.