Clematis Climbing

A few years ago, I planted a clematis vine.  For perhaps the first three years, it was eaten off each time it reached a few inches high.  Either the woodchuck or the deer.   I gave up on it, completely discouraged.    I guess it grew a few more inches and maybe put out a flower or two,  but I didn't pay much attention to it, because it seemed dead and gone to me.

 In the past couple of years, it has actually grown into a climbing vine.  It is growing profusely this year.  We tied some string to a pipe near the roof line, and at the top of a window for it to climb on.

This year it is so prolific that I think that if I could tie a string to a star, it would climb all the way there!

Clearly, the climbing clematis is teaching me life lessons here---- not to give up too quickly, to be patient, not to make assumptions.

And also, I suppose, every vine has its time.