Sexy Lady

I still love the shape on this one. She is so pretty! One of Susie's that I grew out last year. I have only pollinated a few blooms this year, I really should do a few more. She is so easy, does everything well. Has so many great characteristics for a brug. The only improvement I can see would be if she was a tad darker.

I gave out tons of her seeds last year, I am anxious to see if anyone got a seedling with all her good points but in a darker color.

And she has never gotten mites.

Kell, that is one sexy lady....the color is beautiful and looks like perfection...what a gorgeous bloom...Judy

It's a beauty, Kell. Susie did good.

That is a beauty! She sure does live up to her name!!!

Wow! A #10 for sure.

She blooms like crazy too. A big standard naturally. She is my main focus for 2 years now in my courtyard. She does not disappoint. Alway puts on great shows. Yep, Susie did great.

It is just beautiful..

I take way too many pics of her. I am so attracted to gaud. LOL

A "show stopper" for sure. Keep the pics coming!

Mine are all trying to bloom at once, have waited all summer to see them! Time to be bringing them inside, sigh...............

My brugs had a slow start too, Gloria. Come to think of it, I was slow too.

Thanks. I have taken more pictures of this brug than any other I think. I need little encouragement! I hate to bore people though.

Kell, She is a beauty!!

You do not bore us with pics, keep them coming.

Gee, seems I am slowing down also, what do you think is the problem??

Thanks XOMED28.

LOL Gloria, my fan club of 1. I have one more than I must get my act together get busy. I am such a lazy goof off.

Thanks for your kind words.

Very nice brug and nice pictures Kell. She is pretty. Jeanette

Quite a beautiful Brug Kell. Name fits her perfectly!

kathy

The last pic topped them all! Brug/Mandevilla, beautiful.

WOW!!! Too pretty, I love your arrangements, they are always unusual and bright, eye catching, to say the least. I don't have a single thing from Susie that is a bug magnet or cannot take the heat - the only ones I have that are problems are the ones I selected myself, lol. I'm getting rid of all of those next year. I'd rather have a garden full of the same thing, rather than bug magnets...

I corrected my error, I meant to say that I don't have a single one from Susie that is a bug magnet, and that's a very good thing!!

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Kell, who is Susie and does she sell this one? Please do not stop I can not believe what you can grow.
Mine have had red spider so bad and now white fly that I said I give up and then Sherry said she would save me a start from her PR and I saw this and now I know I will win this war if I have to sleep with my burgs to keep the bugs on of them.
Joan

Very pretty Kell!!!!

What a beauty ... great photos!!

What a beauty Kell. !!
Your Garden is so loaded with color and beauty. I love it!! Your photos capture the love you have put into your garden.
Sexy Lady has such a wonderful color and shape. She has that soft beauty but the look of a brug bred for endurance.
She makes me want to give her a loud whistle...
LOL
I can see why she is your main focus in the courtyard.

I am SOOO enjoying these visions of gaud!

Awesome Kell!!
Nice job! ;)

Kell, I have several seedlings Sexy Lady x EP that are budding up. Hope to see blooms before forst (fingers crossed here).

Thanks. I named her Sexy Lady because she podded so easily. She had tons last year.

Joan, Susie is the hybridizer of so many brugs. So many people have grown her seeds in the last few years. I grew this seedling out for her. Susie is Calalily on Dave's. She mostly hangs out on the tropical and vine forums.

LOL Kin, I will tell her you may put her pic up on your bedroom ceiling. LOL

I hope you get a good one, Linda. I am hoping EP will make the seedlings more pink. This brug is a strong one, she has great characteristics. One of my favorite things about her is that you can just pull lightly on her flowers just as they are getting old and out they come. Makes it so easy to keep her tidy esp since she has so many flowers. I have to use one of those grabbers though becuase she is so tall.

Kell, you mention pulling lightly on her flowers as they get old and the release so easily - lol, I thought I was the only person in the world that thought about such characteristics, but I really do!! I want them tidy, but I don't want to remove a pod just to be tidy, so, easy release is me too!! She is a true beauty!!

Boy did you name her right I have been back many times to look at her. Your work with the camera is perfect too. My son makes his living with the camera so I have seen a lot of good pictures from him and his friends and I want to have him look at these. He lives in L.A. but he is in Hong Kong right now, his wife teaches at Pepperdine Un. and they are teaches the Pepperdine kids in H.K. for six months. Both will be very please to see the pictures because she wants to start a landscaping business some day.
I think Sexy Lady is soliciting and that is against the law. I bet every one on this thread would pay for her so that would make you her pimp but I will bail you out of jail just for showing her to us.

Kell, I have some seedlings of your Sexy lady cross but they are still only a couple feet tall. I believe the heat and other enviornmental influences affect my brugs this year in a negative way. I have had more trouble this summer with insects than I have had all the other years combined. Root systems have also developed slowly and stayed small and I am not just talking about your seedlings. All my brug have been affected. It has been a frustrating year for me and we are still having close to 100 degrees temps at the end of Sept. They say a cool front will be here at the end of the week and I can hardly wait.

Frannie, I think the same thing about my NC brugs. Glad to see you posting. I was worried about you with the hurricane coming to Texas. It hasn't been a good year for Brugs here. I sure hope next year will be better for all of us.

Burgnanny, I live in Tyler and I am having the same problems with my burges and everything else. I hope you are all right and your yard is in good shape. Rita tore up my yard and lots of small limbs fell in all the flower beds.
My only hope is that it killed the bugs too.

I hate to burst your bubble, Jestelleoan but the bugs probably survived. LOL

Oooops, Joan, Katrina blew bugs in here in southeast Arky, and they were not nice!!

I love it too, Sherry. I can't think of another that releases as soon as the flower starts getting old. They usually are pretty ugly by the time you can yank them.

6 months in Hong Kong, sounds like quite an adventure. Though I bet you miss them, Joan.

Frannie, I am way behind also in my seedlings this year. Some are flowering now but everything is so light now, I can't evaluate them at all. I can't keep adding more seedling to the old ones each year. I just have so many hours to water and just so many gardens to plant. I can't wait to see how Sexy Lady's babies do. She is such an easy brug. Joan.......... no comment please. LOL

Sherry, I haven't been reading all the threads, I have been so busy. Did you get rid of those horrid thrips??

I hate the thrips, Kell, but my old gardening guru had me use Thiodan, four tablespoons per gallon, with 1/2 of a Cherry (Code Red) Mountain Dew and spray, and continue to spray until they are gone, and use Di Syston and they will all leave, the first cool snap. I will not have this next year. At the first of the season I'll use the Di Syston, then Bayer Advanced 3 in 1 drench, all growing season and I'll use the Bayer Tree and Shrub drench, if need be. And I will make CERTAIN that all plants are WELL watered before I used these products. Of course the plants most bothered by bugs are first year seedlings but the thrips are not particular. I still have an occasional thrip, but no more swarms, they are horrid. For those of you that think I might be a chemical addict, I really am not. The majority of my bugs arrive from the fields near our home and they come here after they have been sprayed via air, so the chemicals are here, regardless of what I do or don't do and I'm making an effort to do it as effectively and safely as I can. Do I like the chems? NO, I hate them - I am likely the last in my area to use them and really wish there was no necessity...did I mention that I HATE thrips AND the storm they road in on...

I don't blame you, thrips are bad. What a shame you are having such terrible trouble. What does Mountain Dew do?

Sherry, I agree with you , it has been such a bad year for my plants. I am copying that e-mail for next year so I can get a jump on them. I guess this will work on red spider and white fly too.
A friend just brought his friends over who are from Houston to see my yard. They had no damage at all and my yard was really torn up but we had a great time. She said I am a Gardener so I know what it should look like.
I told her about Dave's Garden so we may have a new friend here.
Kell, Sexy Lady is so wonderful that I have to have my d-in-law in Hong Kong see it. I am sure when she gets back she will start growing burgs.

Sherry, hope this gets rid of them for you.

This one is Hot! Hope your doin well Kell.save a cuttin for me if it roots up.
Root.

WOW Root!! I was just talking about you to either Trace or Eva the other day. We MISS you!! We were wondering how you were and what was new. So how is your yard this summer? Still so grand? Do you have any pics to share??

And sure you can have a cutting.......... this one is easy to root esp for Root. LOL

The Cherry Mountain Dew draws the bug to drink, if I don't get a direct hit on the thrip or if a thrip gets on the flower after it has been sprayed. It works too, I tried it both ways, the thrips love it. I do have some left and I'm going to put one out and see it ti will draw them, without spraying...we are getting a cold snap tonight and it should drive them away...