Thank you Kermit for your input! I have learned a lot from reading your comments and from info on the FBTS website! I actually did cut back the second one I bought because it was all sprawled horizontally and that one, though smaller overall, is growing in better now and finally has the beginnings of bloom stalk on a couple branches. I probably would not have needed to stake it at all but wanted to be extra cautious in case we got more of the really heavy rains we had late spring into early summer!
