i too, am growing in the northeast. but damn... your guys's plants makes mine look like hell. I've only got one cuz of a very shitty sequence of events..
i had 13 to begin with, but about 5 were eaten by deer, and another 5 were lost to some INSANE bug infestation. by the time i had gotten bug spray and fencing for the deer, i only had 2 left. one turned out male, and so yea... ive just got one now.