all right friends it is time for an aqua pot
update here at the nursery they're massive
they're gorgeous come join me
hey friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today we are
doing a little not little a big aqua
pot update it has been about a month and a half
since i planted these two massive aqua pots and they
are absolutely gorgeous and thriving i mean
look at this it's huge so if you will remember aqua pots are those
fantastic self-watering containers that were a collaboration between proven
winners jack barnwell who was the mastermind
in the whole self-watering container concept
and then michael carr who is the artist who designed the container themselves
aqua pots are brand new on the market this year and so far
they are doing fantastic for us here at the nursery and personally at
our home think way back a month and a half ago to
the middle of may when i planted these
aquapots this one in the video was already planted and then i showed you
how i planted this one now if you remember looking
back right now look at this footage of when i planted
it and look at it now it's huge the vertigo
grass is one of the largest purple fountain
grasses out there on the market it can get four to eight feet tall and
she is well on her way to reaching her fullest potential nestled
down in here at the base is the fantastic diamond mountain
euphorbia from proven winners the diamond mountain
was bred specifically for either the
landscape or large containers and i think this qualifies as a large
container so there are a couple tucked in there and i
love the diamond mountain because they're
have the same growing habit as the diamond frost kind of
light and airy and you can see they're just kind of all
mixed in there together so that brings a nice
white airiness to the container then the petunias this is the supertunia
vista paradise just an electric color of pink you can i mean just look
at that they're fantastic they're one of the
most vigorous petunias that proven winners makes
and they just trail over and just bring lots of color
to these pots and then finally we have the sweet potato vine this is sweet
caroline bewitched after midnight it brings a nice
dark color from the vertigo grass to the sweet potato vine
and it just fills in on both of these are just absolutely gorgeous they're
planted the exact same but you can see where
maybe this sweet potato vine is a little bit more vigorous than this one is
and vice versa but that's the beauty of containers you can plant them the same
they're sisters but they're not completely identical
really fun now these containers do receive
full sun probably eight to ten hours of sun a day they just
drink up the sunshine also because these are such vigorous plants
you've got to maintain your fertilizing on them
remember when i planted them i used the proven winter's slow release fertilizer
not only in the soil but i threw some down into the water tube
also and i have been using their liquid fertilizer their water soluble
fertilizer because these petunias the diamond mountain the vertigo
all vigorous feeders you can give them lots of food because remember
food equals flowers so they get that liquid fertilizer about every week
and they do fantastic i have noticed because these
this is the professional line of the aqua pots that i have
to only really fill them up about every two weeks now that we are getting into
the really hot summer months here in north carolina
i'll probably have to bump it up to once a week not only is it getting hotter
but the plants are getting bigger which means they have more root system
so i have to bump up my watering for them to keep them nice and happy
but it'll be fun to watch these as they go through
the rest of the growing season we still have gosh a good number
three more months ahead of us so i can't imagine what they're gonna look like in
three months from now but i hope you've enjoyed this little
update make sure that you subscribe to gardening with creekside have a
fantastic day happy gardening friends and we'll
see you next time bye