Now that we have installed a gate across the steps to the lower level, the Clematis has grown back, and is fuller than ever.  It is planted under the deck in the shade, and the top is up two levels, and it is full of flower buds.  There must be a hundred.  

 

Last year the deer got in there and ate it down to the roots.  We weren't sure it was going to make it.  But it did, and it is gorgeous.  Yay!!!

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!