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Week in review!

15 years ago

Okey, now we're finally cookin!! LOL!! I'm in brug heaven for the last week or so!

Don't get bored as I post what is blooming now!

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Temple Goddess

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Miz Scarlett

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Santa Rosa

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Green-eyed orange brug

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Pink Beauty

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Pink Perfektion (not)

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Tiara- stays white

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Pink Favorite

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Tiara flush

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sibhskylvr
15 years ago
Brenda

How can anyone get bored looking & enjoying your beautiful brugs?? Fantastic blooms! I hope my 'Tiara' blooms & looks like yours! :) And 'Miz Scarlett' - look how loaded with blooms she is! Wow!

Mike
hong2007
15 years ago
I have temple goddess since last year and never see the bloom :( and my Tiara looking like a shrimp, I just give up the pot and plant it in the ground day before yesterday. I feed them all the stinky fish emultion I can find in homedepot. should I add more phos or use higher middle number in ferlizer? everything else bloom themself to death!
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sibhskylvr
15 years ago
Yes Brenda! What do you use for fertilizer to get such monstrous plants & beautiful blooms? I use Scott's 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer twice a week with an Epsom Salt feeding every weekend. Come on - give us some tips you wonderful bruggie mommy! :)

Mike
gottahosta
Original Author
15 years ago
Oops, there's more! LOL!

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Shooting Star
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double peach seedling- has performed perfectly!
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Charles Grimaldi
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Seedling- Phanomenal x Super Pink- kinda lavendar tint to it.

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Bountiful last week
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more Shooting Star
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Southern Belle
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Creamsickle, fades to pale peach

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Sdlg. Tootsie x Shooting Star- blossoms face up!
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Nother Phanomonal x Super Spot seedling, cool-ish pink.

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Brenda's Beauty/double peach seedling

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Ecuador Pink- not a current photo but she is still blooming elegantly
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Noid/ huge white- keeps blooming!

Think I got them all! What a job loading them! Well, hope you like!
sibhskylvr
15 years ago
Brenda

Congrats on the great blooms! It just keeps getting better & better! That 'Brenda's Beauty' - Wow! Way to go!

Mike
gottahosta
Original Author
15 years ago
Mike- kinda overwhelming, yes?????????

Brenda's Beauty is named for her hybridizer, Brenda Delph, and she (Brenda) has not given me the seal of approval for this name yet!! So, it's just a name of convenience for right now.

I use the Miracle gro formula that is something like this (8-12-6) something like that- it is the latest formula. I also throw on a handful of milorganite now and then. I use bloom booster but not consistantly and I am lucky if I fertilize once a week- too many brugs and seedlings.
Honglee, use some BLOOMBOOSTER til you see buds forming on your Tiara and other brugs not blooming- then go back to regular fertilizer. I think you are doing fine with the fish emulsion- that is very good.

Brenda
chena
15 years ago
WOW!!! Peak Season at your house...LOL Everything is Beautiful!!! I still have a handful with buds.. hope they have the chance to open....
pagrdnr
15 years ago
Brenda I can't wait till all my brugs bloom like that. Now that they have had time to grow and Y I hope I get flushes like that next year. That lavenderish seedling is great, are you going to do some crosses with it to see if you can get a darker lavender to come out? Is Miz Scarlet the MM x Esmeraldas? Everythin glooks so great, congrats!
Shawn
maemae0312
15 years ago
Everything is beautiful!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

Mary
threas
15 years ago
Wow, Brenda!!! They are gorgeous! Your yard must be breathtaking! Thanks for sharing!

Theresa
neonposey
15 years ago
Absolutely beautiful. I bet it sure smells good at your house. :)
givelittle_getlots
15 years ago
wow thank you for letting us be in heaven along with you for a while. It was worth it for me to come and check out the postings! I am so happy for you that you are having such wonderful flushes and soooooooooooooooo many! All at once. Man what a great way to cross pollinate with all of them blooming at the same time.
I swear the one looks purpulish!
just keep em comming.

LUcy
rigo74
15 years ago
Brenda You are in brug heaven and I bet the sweet scent from all those brugs is just to die for.Miz Scarlett is off the hook!!!But your green eyed orange brug is still my favorite.You must be really busy during the growing season,how much time does it take to feed and water so many brugs?

Rigo
gottahosta
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks, ya'll and yes, it smells so great- Bountiful is finishing up her latest flush with about 30 blossoms, so the smell hits me in the nose, exiting the garage.

The green-eyed orange should be about fully bloomed out tomorrow, a real explosion of color. Shawn, Miz S. got the mites on her buds and her blossoms all have tiny white spots on them but you can't tell from a distance. I'm gonna resort to JT's Murphy Soap Oil treatment tomorrow- I'll keep ya posted. Don't have any idea what to cross back to the pink/lavendar brug seedlings. I'll have to go thru my pollen. Maybe cross to that Tootsie x Shooting Star seedling.
carol57078
15 years ago
Wonderful pictures, thanks for sharing them.
Carol
vaskirt
15 years ago
The Tootsie X Shooting Star seedling is my fav out of all of them... Love it !
fool4flowers
15 years ago
Wow, Brenda. Look what I've been missing. You were really putting on a show at your house. I was proud that a little boy riding his tricycle next to his Mom as she walked said I had pretty flowers, lol. He would have jumped in the middle of yours, lol. She said she walked by my house every day and was amazed how the flower beds had grown. I am amazed how well all your brugs are growing and flowering. You are doing a wonderful job with them.
tropicgirl
15 years ago
Brenda,

What glorious blooms!!! So many pretty ones. I think the whites are always so elegant looking, the Tiara is stunning. Miz Scarlett is a pretty pink. And I love the green-eyed orange. My favorite color would have to be the Nother Phanomonal x Super Spot seedling, cool-ish pink. That pink is just luscious.

Deb
crzmama
15 years ago
Wow Brenda..I can only imagine how stunning that all is taken in together!!!!Gonna have to get Southern Belle(being that I meaning me. is one lol) Might as well have a tiara also...Im far from being a princess though lmao..Yes it is too early in the morning..so bear with me lol.
Thanks for sharing your beauties!!!
Charlotte
pearlgirl
15 years ago
Brenda, they're soooo refreshing!! Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL!!!
Thanks for sharing with us.
Margaret
gardenpaw
15 years ago
Brenda Gorgeous as always, you do have a way with them!

Karen
gottahosta
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks, everyone. I'm glad you like them. I'm really happy with the whole show.
LOL, Deb, I like warm pinks and this one looks like Pepto to me!! But it is an intense color, isn't it.
Kristy, I know your yard is gorgeous! Plenty of cars slow down to look as they pass it!
So, folks, I am co-chair for our Master Gardener Fall Symposium and it's getting close 'n crunchy, so I may not be here much but I'll shoot a few brugs photos on my way out the door every morning. If I don't see ya'll much, I'll catch up with you on the other side of October 11th!! Woohoo, can't wait for this symposium to be over!

Brenda
fool4flowers
15 years ago
Sounds like fun Brenda. Go teach em how to grow plants like yours, lol. When you get done you can come down here and teach me too, lol. We will be looking forward to seeing more pics when you have time.
jeep461
15 years ago
Wow, really beautiful. Brugs are such a struggle to keep looking good in the summer. It all becomes apparent why we do this when the right conditions come and all the hard work shows up.

I love your colors keep this pictures coming.
kasha77
15 years ago
Brenda-
I've never seen a green eyed Brug- is it So. Belle? I gotta have one! The Brug bug "bites" again! Your yard looks like a fine Botanical Gardens, you should be proud! What an awesome smell that must be!
Thank you for taking the time to share, great photos!
Kasha77
eloise_ca
15 years ago
Wow Brenda, your brugs are amazing! I love the gr-eyed orange, of course, and Shooting Star, AND all the others!
pagrdnr
15 years ago
Bumping the thread for Daniella to see....
daniellalell
15 years ago
Thank you Shawn! :)

Brenda, I literally out loud just said 'Oh my God'.
Absolutely stunning...just breathtaking!! OK so heres the deal..for the winter I'll be in FLorida at Bob's and the rest of the year I'm in your yard.

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