Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside we have kind of a monumental but yet very
exciting garden task ahead of us here I am standing at the cottage garden and everything
is just really coming out in this spring nice healthy beautiful foliage on my day lilies
and my kniphophias my salvias are coming up and so is my beloved Miss Huff Lantana Miss
Huff Lantana is one of the kind of Surefire perennial lantanas for me in North Carolina
Zone 7B and I do absolutely adore this Lantana it is a beautiful kind of an orange and yellow
has a little bit of pink in there the butterflies absolutely love it as do all the pollinators
hummingbirds too the only problem is that Miss Huff loves her space here in The Cottage
Garden as well and she has outgrown her time here with us in the Cottage Garden I am going
to remove Miss Huff she has already flushed out in some beautiful new foliage Lantana
comes back from like most perennials just brand new growth right so all of this blonde
that you see up here was last year's stems and that's where I cut it back and then all
the new green growth underneath is Flushing out so she is in her active growing time right
now I am going to dig her up it is going to be I'm afraid it's going to be quite a Monumental
task the nursery is open today so Jerry is busy there so I am going to do it the old-fashioned
way with a shovel because I'm afraid if I get into the little Bobcat with the bucket
I will make far more damage than if I did it with a shovel he is really good with the
Bobcat I am okay with the Bobcat so I am going to dig it out I have a feeling that her roots
go everywhere and I do not know how challenging this is going to be so it will definitely
be a show for sure on that what am I going to do with Miss Huff Jerry and I went back
and forth where do we put her do I put her up kind of in a big space near where the chicken
coop is going to go because y'all this land Hannah was on five two five three it was every
bit as tall as I am and wide it was massive it swallowed up all of these day lilies just
outgrew its spot so the Lord provides on Saturday our sweet friends Aaron and Lane came to shop
at the nursery and Aaron said hey do you have any of the Miss Huff Lantana and I said like
for sale and I said no I don't but I have a gorgeous specimen if you wanted so miss
Huff is going to go live with Aaron and Lane in their house just you know 10 miles up the
road so he's going to come by and pick her up he is going to attempt to divide her so
that way he can put her in various spots in her garden so I'm very happy that Miss Huff
is going to go to a fantastic home with Aaron and Lane and their kiddos Princess Anne is
going to go in here this is a David Austin Rose and it's not just a shrub rose I went
ahead and got the rose standard so what that means is it looks like a tree so it has been
grafted Princess Anne has been grafted onto another stock and is nice and Tall that tree
form beautiful it arrived uh two days ago so she has been nice in a cool spot not in
the Sun and I have been rehydrating her roots for the last gosh probably four hours in a
bucket of water and let me tell you she has drunk up some water so Princess Anne is going
to go here and so that I get all of my facts right I have my handy dandy phone so that
I can give you accurate information so it is going to be the rose standard tree form
not the shrub you can buy either one from David Alston we don't sell the David Austin
Roses here at the nursery they prove kind of tricky for us to get but also there's so
many different varieties I wouldn't have a clue as to where to begin I ordered directly
from David Alston so if you're interested just go to their website and you can look
there so Princess Anne is going to be a beautiful um the flowers the early flowers young flowers
start as a deep pink almost red and then they fade to a pure Rich pink they have kind of
narrow petals with a hint of yellow on their undersides very fragrant for me it's very
important if I'm going to have a rose I want it to smell like a rose folks and this is
going to be have a medium tea fragrance of course it is that repeat flowering shrub tree
as a shrub it would be four feet tall by four and a half feet wide it is going to be obviously
a little bit different with being in the standard form and it is suitable for zones 5 to 11
and then with all of your roses you need to give them as absolute much sun as they possibly
can get here in The Cottage Garden tons of full sun sun up to sun down sun comes up behind
me and it sits in front of me so she will get lots of sun there excuse me what I did
really appreciate that David Alston they went ahead and sent me a wooden stake to stake
up Princess Anne so I have that I went ahead and stained it the same stain as what we do
all of our things here that black Alder stain of course it was a nice blonde wood and I
wanted it to blend in so I have stained that it will go in there and of course I will show
you step by step on how I am going to plant princess and in this spot but first things
first it's going to be definitely the hardest part of this job is to get Miss Huff out so
huh kind of dreading this part hopefully she'll just pop right out of the ground I don't think
she will but I'm gonna go grab my shovel grab my sun hat and pull my hair back because it
is a hot day here in North Carolina and we're going to get to work [Music]
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all right oh my goodness y'all I'm not gonna lie that Miss Huff was an absolute Beast of
a plant just like I knew that she would be that's why she was so gorgeous and beautiful
and big where she was because as I always say happy healthy Roots equal a happy healthy
plant and that certainly was the case with Miss Huff but Jenny persevered and she got
her out and it is massive just for reference the sheet that I put her on that is a twin
size sheet and she just about covered up the whole like width of it so I have texted Aaron
and Lane I took a picture I said okay here you go here's your Miss Huff she's ready for
you come pick her up whenever you want I drug her off to the shade so she can hang out in
the shade so they can come get her I also told him I said if you don't want her I understand
because handling the plant that size is a very daunting task so Lane was like oh my
gosh she's gorgeous so anyway we'll see um I actually had to get the hand saw out and
it was my older hand saw so don't y'all don't freak out and go oh my gosh you're using your
brand new hand saw and it's going to mess it up it was an old one but I actually had
to cut three or four roots in there one clearly was the main route and it was at least an
inch inch and a half and um diameter I mean it was really massive once I was able to cut
that one then it came out that is the thing that I have noticed with lantana as is most
of your perennials I wouldn't even dare say like trees and shrubs is their roots go more
horizontal than lateral The Only Exception I would say that would maybe be baptisia has
a nice really deep Tap Root and there's other ones that have deep tap Roots as well but
for sure her Roots were going out instead of down so that helped me as far as being
able to get her out so what I'm going to do now is kind of prep the space for Princess
Anne you'll see I have two bags of land and sea roses love really rich organic soil I
do have obviously very much clay soil but this Garden this Cottage Garden has been developed
and maintained for five six seven years now and so you can see my top layer is really
nice and rich in organic material material and that is because every time we add mulch
it decomposes clearly we need to add mulch to this flower bed it is the time but that's
why we don't put landscape fabric down is because when your mulch decomposes then it
can work into the soil if you put landscape fabric down then all that good compost just
sits on top and it doesn't get into your roots so what I'm going to do is figure out exactly
where my hole is going to go I'm going to add in a good amount of the landancy compost
work it into my native soil I'm not removing my native soil I'm simply adding in compost
and of course I want to make sure when we're burying planting the rose I will show you
like we need to bury her nice and deep so that all of her roots are down in there so
it's better to have a hole that is nice and deep and add some soil back in it than it'd
be too shallow so I'll make sure it's nice and deep and then once I know um the depth
is right I'm probably going to go ahead and drive my stake in the ground that way the
steak is in the center and then I can plant around it and maneuver The Roots around the
steak instead of trying to drive the steak in and miss the roots we'll see how that works
so right now I'm going to do is just get my hole dug make sure we're exactly where I want
it get my land and sea in there and you'll notice too that I had irrigation lines going
but on both sides of the the Miss Huff so we will take care of that nothing got cut
praise the Lord one of the lines was running like right in the roots but it had a a joint
it was joined right there with like a coupler so I was able to take it apart and pull it
out so we saved that one so yeah my poor little Fitbit kept going off and it was like you're
earning Zone minutes keep going you're doing great and who says gardening is not a physical
sport I don't know it is a physical activity sure for sure got my heart rate up so we're
gonna get this hole dug [Music]
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it wouldn't be misprint since then it'd just be Princess Anne she is in the flower bed
cannot wait to see this thing Bloom it is going to be stunning um the trunk of the Rose
was a little bit crooked because I know that you people are all about beautiful straight
nice and level and so of course I have my level out and my steak is nice and straight
and level on all sides the rose has a little bit of a curve to her but when she's in bloom
you are not going to notice that I did go ahead and water her in obviously really nice
top dressed the whole area really well with Atlanta seed compost this bed needs massive
work it needs a lot of TLC and so it needs to be weeded it needs that top dressing of
mulch and compost so I will take care of all of that really you know obviously before I
put my annuals in and so what we're going to do with her is just keep her well watered
I watered her in today and then we're expecting like two or three days of like lots of rain
unfortunately here for the weekend so she is going to get nice and settled in and I
just sit back and let her grow I will go ahead and start my treatment for my Japanese beetles
and aphids and all of the other pests that do enjoy our roses and so that is it's the
bear three in one it's the rose and flower care it's a granular that I use sprinkle it
on there and it lasts for a month and it protects like I said against Japanese beetles black
spot aphids so it's a fertilizer Fungicide and a pesticide systemic all in one so that
is my secret to keeping my roses healthy during the summer is I use that every four weeks
so I will begin that regimen with her here pretty soon as soon as I start to see some
foliage pop out there are buds on it so far and so we're just going to let her develop
and just get acclimated to her new home feels good to have Miss Huff out of the ground Lane
is going to stop by this afternoon and pick her up so she is going to be off to her new
home and normally be out of the ground just for a couple of hours before she gets it settled
into her new home so it all works out great that's the beautiful thing about gardening
right there's always somebody that can take a plant that if you need to divide or get
rid of somebody always wants it so nothing goes to waste as always thanks so much for
going to the Creekside you all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends