@Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca @Michelle Bickhaus @haku84_zone9 & Friends My Kiss Me Kate had a nice showing first season 2021, a newbie, so bloomed only a tiny bit afyerwards. Looking forward to her maturing this year & more reoeat blooms, but she is always healthy & gorgeous blooms! She was a little new bush but had about 15-20?blooms 2021 first flush.bShe’s in 1/2 shade/sun. If she doesnt bloom enough, I’ll move her.

Mine gets full sun for most of the day, shade from about 4 o’clock on. It grows tall really fast, easily ten feet straight up under the eaves, not wider than 5 ft along the wall and I train and prune it to keep it from sticking out too far. Definitely more up than out for me. She is not flexible, so a gentle fanning out of her canes is the best I am able to do. I wish I could bend her more to encourage laterals, but I’m realizing she isn’t made for that.

I decided to start Part II now because I might not have time to do it later. Link to Part II

Since you asked, yes, Dedtired posted Jimmy Rodger's "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" early in Part I and I posted Bobby Vee's 1960 version of "One Last Kiss," although there is also a different song with the same title. Before Roxsol posted it, I was unaware that Cher had covered this song by Betty Everett: This was one of my favorite songs in 1964. Betty Everett was the first artist to chart with this song, and it went to #1 for her. Merry Clayton had recorded it a year before but did not chart, for some reason.