hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and welcome to
our weekly nursery tour we're going to start
today over here at the pines because last time we did a nursery tour i forgot
to show you some of the fantastic shade part
shade sun perennials and shrubs that we got in so i wanted to show them to you
so come on come on over here into the pines
things are doing quite well here we're in the
middle of september now and getting a little bit of a break from some of the
heat some of the days but we haven't
officially hit fall so if you're in the part of the country where you are
really experiencing fall remember us southerners who are still sweating to
death but anyway coming on over here we have got
um some camellias now we when we ordered camellias we did several
different kinds and for those of you who are not in the
south um and do not know what a camellia is a
camellia is a fantastic shrub it is evergreen very hardy they typically
are going to be like part sun to part shade there can be some variation as far
as sun requirements based on their variety they will come in just a
thousand different colors somewhere in the shades of white
pinks reds and just a variation of all of those colors together
they can be petite they can be like a three by four by three by four
we have the shishi camellia that is around here somewhere i'm not
sure if this is it or not i'll look in a second but it's petite
it's one of the smallest ones then you can go all the way up to like
15 feet tall so it really does matter that you know where you're going to put
it when you buy that variety because you certainly don't want to buy
a 15 foot camellia and try to stick it underneath the
window you're going to fight it for the entire time that it is there so remember
there is no bad plant but there is bad plant placement so
this particular one they had these little tiny tags
this one is oh this is shishi all right so shishi like i said is one
of those most petite camellias is gonna be somewhere in that
three to five foot range tall and wide does beautiful
deep pink blooms on it and another thing about camellias that you're gonna love
that i love about them is that they bloom anywhere from
fall winter into early early spring so they are one of those few plants
shrubs that bloom in the fall winter and early spring
it will depend on your variety as far as how they bloom
now as far as camellias go all across the board
they do bloom on old growth so you do not want to prune these right now
because i think as jerry already showed you this
thing is absolutely covered in buds so before long this is going to be in
full bloom so if i were to prune it right now and
give it a hard prune i'm cutting off my blooms
again if i had done that in august july again i've cut off all my flower
buds so you want to prune camellias
immediately after they bloom so that way i have plenty of time to
regrow and put on new buds so that is shishi coming on down in here
look at these now we have talked you have seen this is the pulmonaria
from proven winners this is spot on this is
brand new here's your tag i know how much y'all
love your tags so there you go this is going to be a shade
perennial now pulmonaria again it is hearty in zones three to nine
it is an extremely versatile plant now pulmonaria has this gorgeous
foliage to it you can see why it's called spot on it is
rough in texture it's very hairy so it's going to be naturally deer
rabbit resistant just makes this gorgeous
mound and it will have these i always get it wrong i always have to look at
the tag so yes it has starts with pink blooms
that transition to that purple blue in early spring brand new this year
we bought a ton of these as babies to grow them out for to have for this fall
and into next spring well our customers here have absolutely gobbled them up
because they're a fantastic plant we only have a little bit left and so if
you're local and you're thinking about coming and getting a pulmonaria
you need to come get it because we were going to go back and reorder them
well we cannot get them until like the summer of next year
we might get a tray in i'm not sure but again not a sales tactic you know i
don't do that i'm just giving you the honest truth so if you are a local and
you want a spot on pulmonaria you need to come this weekend and get
them because quantities are limited now oh
i love some perennial ferns this one is so amazing it has a tag in
here twice this is autumn brilliance fern
it is a fantastic perennial fern that is a semi-evergreen so even in the winter
you're still going to have some foliage it's not going to be in all of its glory
but you will still see it there it does not go
completely away completely dormant brilliance has these
gorgeous new fronds that have a copper color to them
just really pretty it's gonna get like two feet tall by two feet wide
zones five to nine so again extremely versatile it pairs beautifully
with the pulmonaria hostas the brunera just any kind of
shade perennial it pairs really really well with
and it does you get the best color in part sun so if you can have a little bit
of sun you'll get the best color on that and just a fantastic
fern i have it in multiple places in the garden here at the nursery
and at our house love this one this coleus
clearly is loving life it is in a very small
container i don't know if you we can't even see the container but it's like a
little wooden trough i believe there's three plants in here
this is
what was this oh this was wicked hot that's what it was
wicked hot from proven winters so colorblaze series
does great in sun or shade so last year i did sedona sunset here
and it did as equally well but again there's three plants in here
again i probably over planted it but it makes such a gorgeous statement
extremely low maintenance the bugs typically don't really like to
eat on it but this is wicked hot which was a brand new one
this year um more camellias this is the um
kanjiro camellia it's going to get a little bit taller
and then the shishi i guess it's about a oh don't quote me on this i don't have
my information with me i want to say it's like around that
five to seven foot range again it's an early bloomer so it's got
some little buds are starting to form on it
if you can see see those little buds it is a pink one but it just really it
does really well for us here in north carolina so that is a
great one as well tons of camellias
i do want to show you give you an update not that
it has a weed in it don't look at that the proven winners annuals the shade
annual new introductions for next year we've got
three impatients right here that are doing great this is part of the infinity
series so this is the light purple which i
would call this like neon purple it is a gorgeous color just look
like look at my hand look to see how big this bloom is
next to my hand like it can fit in the palm of my hand
gorgeous love this one then we have the blushing crimson which again
nice big massive blooms on it nice hot pink in the center and it kind of
fades out to a lighter pink darker foliage on this one and then
back here in the back if jerry can get in there
that's a great one for us clemson fans because oh my word
can you see that look at that look at that gorgeous color
and in just a second i'm going to tell you what the official color is
these plants are so amazing because they're so
nice and large they do really well these do are in complete shade until a
little bit in the afternoon and then they do get some sun so this is
a real original name i don't know why i didn't know this
infinity orange you know sometimes it's simple and then sometimes it's not
they should have called it infinity tigers
how fantastic would that be all right now and then the um
look at this one i showed you this in the video
with the the new introductions that i love
this is the double up white begonia these are one of my top favorite
new introductions for next year it can do sun or shade this is one plant
it came to us as a four inch plant it is now
in a 12 inch pot and doing magnificently well pure white blooms on just beautiful
foliage just easily grows i mean
the bugs don't like it the sun or shade what is not to love so this double up
series and remember it comes in pink red and white
so this is definitely going in to our landscape planters the whole nine
yards next spring for sure all right let's
come on over here because this is what i was so excited about
last week and then i forgot to tell you about it look at this
sea of gorgeous color this is a s well not a sun king
sun king there's a lot of them in here sun kings are a type of spikenard
they are just a massive pop of color for your shade garden
fantastic perennial hearty in zones three through nine
that y'all always ask me is it deer resistant yes
i can say this is deer resistant has a little bit of a
coarse texture to it they can easily get three feet tall by three feet wide maybe
even a little bit bigger if you will remember
back in my tour of our shade garden right outside of our kitchen
i have two of these growing underneath the window box
underneath our kitchen sink window so this is the sun king
they do just super easy they're fast growers
like i said a three by three zones three to nine i want to say if i'm remembering
this correctly right now mine in the landscape are
putting on their flower buds and they're going to put on white
flowers little white flowers which will then turn
into purple berries that are edible for the
the wildlife and all all sorts but if you were looking to bring some
height and some color to your shade garden then you really might want to
consider sun king spikenard low maintenance
super easy fast grower love love love this plant it is amazing all right
let's come over here because i don't know if we have looked
at this new euchara
you know and in the plant world i don't know if you've noticed this at
all but people it's kind of like tomato tomato
potato potato people will call these eucharis eucheras some people say
clematis some people say clematis you know
as long as you can communicate and we know what you're talking about
it's okay it is all good so this is a new one for us this year this is fun
and games red rover you can see it has that great the
new foliage has a really pretty kind of a mahogany um
hue to it that red euchres are great because they are really low maintenance
they're short so they do really well in the front of your bed
these guys are going to be part shade to shade there are some
eucharist like black pearl that can do sun
this is going to be more of your shade garden so we can do some morning sun and
it's going to be shady in the afternoon preferably hardy in zones four to nine
they will put on spikes of blooms but they are mostly known
for their foliage that really pretty coppery red leaf and
then
just great creamy white blooms in the springtime
so love these really versatile they're just a great accent to pair with
like hostas and anything else in that shade garden
that you have going on uh let's see oh
something we just got this week come on over here
so sarah and emily potted these up
so this is fun all right now you were familiar with the queen of
diamonds because we have talked about that again
brunera bruneria tomato tomata so this is jack of diamonds which is a
little bit different than the queen of diamonds
another great fantastic shaped perennial naturally deer resistant because it is
hairy and coarse it is going to be about 14 to 16 inches tall but it's gonna be
wide so it's gonna make this great mound and it is hardy in
zones three to eight definitely in the shade
especially for us you can do a little bit of morning sun
but it is definitely a shade plant the leaves themselves can be nine to ten
inches wide so just a massive color really pretty
foliage on it and then
it does little blue flowers sorry i was thinking for a minute
little blue flowers in the early spring like true blue
i know sometimes in the horticultural world they'll say it's blue and it's
really purple this is a true blue flower all right
let's move on let's go back over here to the
perennial area not the perennial area pergola area and come on over here
lots of things to show you um blueberry bushes we got some blueberry
bushes in i know everybody's always asking about blueberries
so we've got some beautiful look at these massive
bushes over here it's fantastic so this is the sunshine
blue variety um
it's gonna be three to four feet tall fantastic to eat
just a great wonderful blueberry if you're looking for that
you come get this i don't know if you have to have another
variety to pollinate jerry do you know i don't know i'll look it up
i'll put it in the description of the plants of the video so look for that
um we emptied our pots look for some videos coming where we're going to be
potting up some fall container ideas for you because those will be coming soon
and then look at this sweet day lily this is the going bananas
i believe we talked about going bananas i don't know if we talked about it in
the daily video or not i don't think we did so this is another great one from
proven winners just that sweet buttery creamy
yellow and it is going to be one of the longest
blooming ones of course hearty end zones three
to nine these are blooming now because um if you remember we planted those as
bare root plants and so they're just a little out of sync
with their season we've got some gorgeous grasses
the desert plains we brought these in these are great components for your fall
gardens so this is a great perennial grass
from proven winters we love this one of course you can see how it does those
beautiful little plumes it's gonna be like a three by three
and it's gonna be in harding in zones five to nine
so it's a great fountain grass makes wonderful focal point
hamline is going to be a little bit smaller but it does those great
kind of that same foliage on it but it's just going to be a little bit smaller
so here is hamlin lots of different nurseries hamlin is a very well-known
popular variety of grass it is going to be a two
to three foot tall zones
six five-ish to nine so a little bit more
cold hearty um come on over here we'll do the pansies real quick and
we're almost done lots of different components you can
remember if you remember from that video we did this whole table
was full of pansies so we're going to be looking at bringing in some more pansies
this week because people have just gobbled them up they are gorgeous they
are ready to go pansies of course remember for us in the
south they are a fall winter very early spring plant they
cannot be a spring summer plant for us because we just get too
hot and they are cool weather loving plants that's why they do great for us
in the fall and the winter so again look for lots of
videos coming up where we give you some ideas on how to make up some containers
using pansies and other mixed components to make up a gorgeous container
that will last you all through the winter season
but i think that is it for today we have kind of covered everything that we need
to talk about stay tuned as always for upcoming videos
thank you so much i do want to give a shout out
really quickly to all of our friends all of our viewers
in europe because last time when i did a shout out to people i forgot our
european friends and they said hey jenny we love
you too so this is my big hug and a kiss from me to you to all the different
places in europe we love you we adore you thank you so much for all
of your support you all have a fantastic day and we will
see you next time bye friends