Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside and this week's Nursery Tour we're going to go
through and look at all the Fantastic the shrubs we've got um mums we've got merchandise we have
got all sorts of fun things to share with you today so pay attention and make notes
on all of the great things that we have to offer here at Creekside Nursery in Dallas
North Carolina just west of Charlotte Zone 7B let's talk about shrubs here at the nursery
um our sweet ladies have worked really hard organizing and getting everything beautiful
down here and it is looking great fall we have talked about many times is the perfect time to
go ahead and begin planting fall is wonderful here in the south in the warmer climates because
get these shrubs in the ground before the heat of the summer hits massive root growth happens in the
fall so we want to get them in the ground we have got of course the gorgeous Perfecto Mundo azaleas
this is both the Perfecto Mundo double pink and then we have the double purple because people
were asking if we um if the Perfecto Mundos come in different colors and they do this is just a
small sampling of them here but the double purple and everything got watered this morning so it's a
little they're a little waterlogged but that deep purple is a great one as well Perfecto Mundos are
those repeat blooming azaleas that bloom three times a year and so these are great Foundation
plants beautiful flowers a nice Evergreen color will do um great here in the South and other
areas because they are hearty in zones 6B to nine azaleas of course are typically we think of those
as you know those iconic Southern shrubs you get beautiful spring flowering then the summer
and then again in the fall these are going to be two to three feet wide so not going to be
massive like we think of our traditional azaleas that can get huge nice manageable size Gorgeous
Flowers give you lots of Interest another kind of iconic Southern shrub of course gardenias I
am a huge gardenia fan if you have been around me for any length of time you probably know that this
is Steady As She Goes premium winners offers two different gardenias Steady As She Goes is going
to be one of the larger ones as opposed to Pillow Talk they both have those beautiful double white
flowers on them and these are going to be full sun plants so you want to put your gardenia in
the full sun nice glossy Evergreen foliage party in zones seven to ten Steady As She Goes Like I
said is a little bit bigger because it's three to five feet tall and four to seven feet wide
if you're going to have to trim your gardenia because I've had people ask me if you need to trim
your gardenia you want to do it initially after that first flush of flowers because they bloom
on Old growth so you want to make sure that you're not trimming them now do not trim them now if you
trim them now or the winter or the early spring you're going to cut off next year's flowers and
you do not want to do that right we love those gardenias for that beautiful flower and that
delicious fragrance it's like don't bring your gardenias right now also of course the classic
Sunshine ligustrums these are wonderful Evergreens big pop of color for the full sun and they pair
beautifully with this orange rocket Barberry both of these are from a Southern Living shrubs they
do obviously do really well here in the South the barberries of course are going to be deciduous so
you've got that really bright red flower on not flower foliage on it pairs really nicely with the
sunshine ligustrum so be thinking about in your garden what are the colors and structures that
you want to have and these two are just a classic pairing now I've talked to you about this before
with like barberries just something that I have noticed with the proven winter barberries so like
the sun joined Neo or the orange pillar barbaries do have thorns which makes them great to be deer
resistant rabbit resistant these seem to be a little bit more thorny if that is a word I don't
know if that's a word I'm going to make it up I'm gonna say it's a word so as far as the on the
prickability scale this is a little bit more um thorning than I don't even know how else to say it
Pokey I'm making up words the Thorn is firm that is like that's a very tongue twister to
say compared to like the sun Joys from proven winners yeah the orange pillar yeah so if you
understand what I'm saying just keep that in mind not that that would deter me personally but if
you have like if you're going to put this on a walkway like maybe about a sidewalk you may want
to make sure it's kind of in not right against the sidewalk push it back a little bit you don't want
somebody coming in and raking their hands over it or brushing up against it so that's just a little
side note but also with it being more um firm is gonna I wouldn't I would imagine it would increase
the deer resistant rabbit resistance on that for sure if you're looking for a shrub that brings
you interest for three seasons where as far as you get flowers and you get Fall Foliage then Vanilla
Spice is going to be a great option for you I planted three of these up at the chicken coop
and we love vanilla spice this is a summer sweet you can see where these are these pods right here
are the old blooms so everything everything that you see with those really kind of nice upright
structure to it those were white flowers that smell Divine really nice fragrance
to them pollinators love this plant they will be completely covering this plant and then as
soon as our temperatures start to turn this will turn a really bright bright yellow so I say it's
a big bird yellow it is a gorgeous stunning plant it is going to be hearty in zones four to nine so
very very adaptable it is a native plant it does really well in wetter areas so if you have a spot
in your garden that stays historically wet this would be a great option for you and it gets to
be a good size three to six tall by three to five wide great thing is though it blooms on New Growth
so you can feel free to come in there and prune it keep it the shape that you want and it is one
that is going to naturalize it so if you've got it in a very contained area that you don't want
it to spread you may not want to go with this plant if you have an area like I do up at the gym
Coop where it can just fill in go for it this would be a great plant I want to use it in the
signature Garden in some of our wetter areas that are more open where it can just spread
and be very happy all right let's see let's go where are we gonna go let's go to the barn
so come on and there of course y'all we've got tons of shrubs right this is a great time to do
um hydrangeas you can see all of these beautiful hydrangeas back here the panicles are doing
great anytime you want to like this fall is a perfect time to get those hydrangeas in the
ground your hostas your cool weather shrubs and perennials it is wonderful now coming on in here
to the barn we got a fresh shipment a fresh order of our beloved Heartwood bird houses now
the bird houses come from a family-owned company in Star Mississippi I'm just gonna tell you right
now we're not shooting birdhouses right so if you want to if you're not local or you're not
coming to visit and you want to order one of these bird houses just go to their website you can order
directly from them and they will ship it to you if you are coming here these make amazing gifts they
make amazing additions to your garden and I have multiples of these in my garden and I absolutely
love it now I'm going to get let you guess I went ahead and ordered two of these so guess where this
one's going to go yep so it has a little it has a little chicken on there and so this is going to be
going not this particular one because I ordered one for me but it will be going into the um the
garden surrounding the chicken coop but these are made out of Cypress and Cedar and just a great
product that is really not the only beautiful but functional as well and the birds love them
they go in there right away also you can save like for this one you can either mount it so
we have mounting plates like if you want to put it on a pole which is what I'm gonna do but they
also have like hooks in the back so if you wanted to put it on a tree you could and then they make
it really easy to clean out so either they have in the back at the end of the season where you need
to clean it out and you can do that or the Burr some of the bluebird houses which I just think is
so cool they have little um let's see if I can do it there we go little little switches right
here that you can open it up and then you can open it clean it out and easily put it back so
they make it really easy to clean their houses but you can see they come in a range of colors
and sizes and shapes they will also the smaller the whole those are for your small birds those
nice bigger holes I think they're one and a half inches those are for your bluebirds and again they
they flock to these houses and really really do adore them so great addition to your garden they
make great Christmas presents birthday presents appreciation presents like any if you need a gift
for anybody that enjoys birds or gardening or any of that kind of thing then these are
wonderful additions so whether you like the nice big like bold colors or you like a more natural
um color palette they have those so I love these and these fly out of here all these references to
birds that's just cracking me up not trying to do that all right t-shirts so we have T-shirts here
available at the nursery we also have them online so we can ship those to you like right away so
t-shirts are here and online and then we of course have the um Creekside stickers we got a couple of
new ones in since we did it last we were here last this is like a holographic one I love this one
it's not gardening until you get dirty so if you can see how it'll it'll kind of change some colors
then we've got um so of course we've got since we are in North Carolina we have to have some
outlines and North Carolina references so that is the Creekside Nursery with the North Carolina of
course the bless your heart I have another North Carolina I love this one nice round home sweet
home really fun graphic on that and Life's too short for minimum spacing we did this one ring I
was asking all of our folks here at Creekside you know what are some fun sayings and things that we
can do and this was Randy's Randy loves that one and then of course our hey friends have that so
these are also are online so you can order them online and here at the store felcos we've talked
about felcos before we're gonna have a video coming to you this week on how I maintain my
felcos I will tear my velcos apart I will show you how to clean them sharpen them put them back
together so that they are brand new because if you take care of them they literally will last
you a lifetime yes it is a bit of an investment for your falcos but again you take care of them
and they will be the last pair of pruners that you ever buy so all of the supplies that you need are
both here and online we offer really kind of the most popular sizes we have we'll just go through
we have the eights which are for a little bit of a bigger hand we have the classic twos this is
I think probably by far the absolute most popular one this is what I use and then we have the sixth
and the 14 which are on a little bit of a smaller size a medium size and yeah I mean they absolutely
are great and of course all the cleaning supplies the tools to sharpen the holsters You Name It
We got it all the good things for sure on that all right we're going to Mosey on up here to uh
the greenhouse we have some of our favorite customers are here they're here bright and
early this morning I think they're picking out mums and so we have got mums and the mums are
cracking that color because huh finally it is arriving so we have got this is what I tell
people I love or getting my mums when they're in this stage so you can see what the colors are but
they're not in full bloom therefore you get to enjoy it for the longest period that you possibly
can because you know what you're buying but it has tons of buds on it and it's not open yet so
you can see like these are obviously two different colors this one is a little bit more on the pinky
Rose side I don't know if Jerry can get in there it's a little bit of an older Bloom but that see
how it's a different color right there all you're going to have to do for your mums is water them
you don't need to fertilize don't prune them just give them water and they will
be perfectly happy so of course the classic yellow I mean this yellow is by far one of
the absolute most popular with the mums because they show up from a distance it's that classic
yellow goes with just about anything that you can imagine we have white we never did white before
thanks to Joanna Gaines we now do white mums and I'm telling you they fly out of here they
go so fast so when you're here you might notice you're like oh my gosh like that's the light
yellow so it looks a little bit yellow when you first when it first is starting to open
but then see right there classic white just a pure white um so we've got the
white mums as well we've got oranges and reds and purples and all the colors here
um Elena Erin are they're dancing around the camera oh side note so Elaine and Aaron
were were the recipients to miss huff and Aaron took the chainsaw and cut her in two
yes so all of you that remember way back in the spring when we took out Miss Huff the lantana out
of our Cottage Garden and I put the David Alston standard in there and I uh gifted Miss huh to Lane
and Aaron Aaron took the Chainsaw cut it in half planted them separately and they are massive and
huge so I'm telling you there you go um back to talking about the colors we will have so the mums
are here this is just the first sampling because of course we grow them up at production and then
bring them down as they are showing some color so we've got a huge Variety in selection mums
bloom at different times this is a gorgeous orange but they bloom at different times so
you have early Bloomers mid Bloomers late bloomers so we're gonna have mums from now until probably
October November um so you can easily come and just you know get some now or if you want to
wait a little bit later and then add to them and get more later you absolutely can do that as well
um I know a lot of people are going to be asking about other fall annuals so your
pansies your violas your kale your mustards all of those kind of plants we're going to be having
we're going to have those either at the end of this week or next week we have had kind of an
unseasonably well not unseasonably we it's just been hot right and so those pansies and violas
mustards kales all of those cabbages are cool weather plants and so they are slow
growing at this time of year so we're going to have them we're just waiting on them to bulk
up a little bit Jerry wants to say something I can tell we have a limited number of these and
they this grass is going to be like an excellent pairing yes so what is this guy okay so we have
Cheyenne okay so Jerry's not mic'd up so we have Cheyenne Skye which is a beautiful perennial grass
that is going to be we have a limited number of those just because we're growing them and it will
be a great pairing for all of your fall colors and that's why CC has put them here like this
even if you had annual grasses whether you had the Skyrocket or you had the fireworks those are
going to do great because those are cooler as far as our like the temperatures and they will sustain
all the way through until a hard freeze so all of these are great options for you bottom line
we've got lots of fun things here at Creekside Nursery a lot of stuff is going on we just had
a horse trailer pull in so I y'all it's just a circus around here people bring all sorts of
things to come shop at Creekside Nursery um so we would love to see of course we're open Wednesdays
through Saturday and that is until we close and sometime in December so come see us as always
thanks so much regarding Creekside you all have a great day we'll see the next video bye friends