the dog days of summer are upon us and today i am going to be creating a brand new
late summer container stay tuned
hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today i am going to be putting
together a late summer container it is august it is hot it is humid it is sticky and some of your
containers maybe they're just looking sad maybe you are been on vacation and somebody forgot to
water them and you just need a brand new pot that will go through the end of the summer
so that's kind of what the situation we have here i have this container i've had it forever it is
just a resin container and so i thought it would be really fun to put together this late summer
container that will go all the way through a hard frost or even a freeze we have some very
mature plants here this gorgeous mandevilla vine we brought it in in the spring we have a couple of
them left and they were just hanging out and they were gorgeous and i was like let's put a container
using the mandevilla vine to be my thriller and then we have a blue suede shoes salvia a penta
and a lime thyme coleus that were originally in the little 4.25 containers from proven winners
and then again they didn't sell so we moved them up to gallons and they are growing and blooming
and thriving and they're massive so this container is going to be a little bit different in the fact
for me by the time i get done putting it together it's going to look like a full-size container that
has been growing all season long but it's going to be nice and fresh so i got this inspiration
from when jerry and i were in blowing rock north carolina a couple of weeks ago
we went up for a sunday afternoon the mountains are only an hour and a half away from us and
any parent knows sometimes you just need a little break from your beloved offspring
and we were in that situation so we decided to take off and head to blowing rock and blowing
rock if you don't know has absolutely beautiful flowers the town has gorgeous flowers everywhere
and then so do the residents and the local businesses
so i was inspired by somebody that had a container kind of doing this same thing with the mandevilla
all i'm doing right now is just loading up my container with the proven winter's potting soil
and so i'm not going to put it all the way full because all of these plants are in one
gallon containers and i don't want to have to over like take soil out i'd rather add some soil to it
um remember when you're doing a container and you want it to last especially like this you're
putting in nice big plants you're wanting them the container to last through the heat of the summer
fill the whole container up with potting soil do not fill in the bottom with like fillers plastic
bottles pine cones packing peanuts you want this whole thing to be soiled because we need our
plants to have all their roots to be able to go down now this is going to be interesting because
this mandevilla when we got it it came to us on a trellis and i'm gonna keep that trellis
intact i'm not going to take the mandevilla off
it's got some roots in here folks there we go all right so you can see that this
plant has a lot of roots in it so i'm not going to go in here and massively break up my roots
i'm simply taking my thumb and poking holes in it to break up the roots just a little bit
not massive i don't want to shred it stand it up here
and these these sweet things are ready to get out of
that nursery pot and into a nice container so here we go let's see
get her down in there
now i know that we are sitting in the shade right now
again it's august it's hot so we're planting this in the shade
and that's why it's on a wagon so once we get done we're going to move it just take the wagon with us
and we're going to move it over to the sun location all right so let's see here
get everybody tucked in it's gonna be a little interesting here
we're just gonna have to go with it all right here we go i think i'm gonna put
this is the blue state rockin blue suede shoes salvia actually this is one of jackson's
so in the winter when we're potting up plants he um he likes to take
the uh plants the little plugs the liners that look like they're not gonna make it and he rescues
them and so this is one of his rescue plants and he likes to say that he grew it but really it's
his daddy that's taking care of it so we're going to stick this in over here if you're not familiar
all right trellis stay still if you're not familiar with the rockin series of salvias
they're amazing they're massive hummingbird attractors um just great plants continuous
bloomers not only for hummingbirds pollinators honeybees bumblebees you name it they love it
all right we're gonna make this work people all right we got that um
i think i want to do the lime time on the side let me look at this coleus look how massive it is that
color blaze series can do sun or shade they only that our folks moved it up just a couple of weeks
ago and it's already filled in this much so it's why we love coleus they are so vigorous fantastic
growers and i know that this mandevilla like any other kind of vine is going to intermingle
with the other plants and that's perfectly fine that is not a problem it'll go up but it'll also
come through sounds good now in the front another major pollinator attractor we're going to use
the sunstar rose penta again if you don't have pintos in your yard you need to they are amazing
again massive pollinator attractor um and we're gonna stick that in the front
my trellis is not cooperating with me very much here it keeps wanting to go crooked
let's see get that tucked down in there and my pots
not staying flat on this wagon let's see if i move it oh good now we stop the wiggle
okay so all the plants are planted now so what i'm going to do is go back through remember i
told you i didn't fill it all the way up and i'm going to fill in any little holes pockets
with potting soil the key one of the keys to having a successful container
is making sure that you've got a lot of fresh available potting soil for those roots
to grow and be happy in the more soil more roots more water retention more fertilizer it will
hold whole nine yards when you're choosing your container always choose a container
the biggest one that your space will allow and if you know branches snap off right now it's okay
pinching and pruning whether it's intentional or accidental
it's always a very good thing for your plants especially these guys it just creates more
branching and see look we already have a bumblebee
i told you it's not gonna be a major pollinator attractor
now all these plants
minus the lime time lime time can do remember sun or shade but these are full sun plants
so we're going to put this in a very sunny warm spot we're actually going to put it on
the side of the outhouse which is not really the outhouse the electrical cover just looks
like an outhouse um here at the nursery so that spot gets lots of sun hot intense afternoon sun
and it's close to a hose so i can water it when i need to so we're getting it in there i know
this might seem a little tedious but it's very important that we do this now right now the um
salvia is not really as prime as these other guys are because it went a couple of days
without some water and got a little neglected but it will bounce back immediately in fact
what i might do is go ahead and um just cut back a little bit some of the stalks
gently i'm not going to do a heavy prune on this but that encourages new growth more branching
i'm just making sure i don't have any oops see there's a big hole back there
i'm gonna put it here slide it back now within i would say like a week this container is going
to be so filled in everybody's going to be very happy it's going to be nice this is
definitely a big presence um container this is not going to be for a little small petite area
it's definitely going to be somewhere where it's going to make a big impact because all these
plants are nice and large and when they grow up in the next couple of gosh weeks and months
they're really going to fill in so what i'm going to do on this salvia is just kind of come in
where there's just a couple of little petite little blooms on it and i'm just going to come
down and just snip it now there's some good blooms on that so i'm going to leave it alone
but when i do this i am encouraging the plant to branch out send out some more branching
more blooms and again this is an area where i'm gonna do some really precise pruning and not um
i'm not gonna trim it like jenny sometimes does where i'm just absolutely ruthless and i just come
in here and just cut it all the way back so if you didn't know that i was pruning it or had pruned it
you you wouldn't be able to tell because i'm being very precise wherever you have um two
little leaves coming up that's where you want to cut right above that then those two little
leaves will turn into branches which will be full of blooms now normally i don't ever have to do
this the only reason i'm doing this on this salvia right now is like i said because it was neglected
and it got dry a couple of times and it just needs a little bit of help the beautiful thing about all
of these plants is nothing has to be deadheaded nothing has to be deadheaded they were branching
on their own they will produce continuous flowers and color from spring to frost or hard freeze
so really that's it for right now as far as the planting and the pruning i am going to go ahead
and put in some of the time release fertilizer in here there is some in that proven winter soil i
like just to bump it up just a little bit because the time releases is released based on temperature
it's really warm now give them a little bit of extra shot of food because this is going to be
neglected kind of during the week it's going to be kind of on its own and every time it gets watered
or it's sitting out there in the hot sun that fertilizer is being released and they're being fed
so we're going to take and just do a couple of shakes in here all of these are heavy feeders
so we're just going to come in here add the slow release in there i'm probably going to do about
three scoops total in here again heavy feeders i'm not going to burn the plants i'm just simply
feeding them right now um food equals flowers people so you definitely got to feed them
and then what i am going to do too i know some of you are going to think i'm crazy but it works
is i'm going to go ahead and give them because i obviously have to water this in
i'm going to give them a shot of the water soluble fertilizer as well
with your water soluble fertilizer it is one scoop per gallon
and this is a two gallon container so we're gonna put two scoops
give it a little jug
all right
if you will notice where i'm putting the water i'm putting the water down in the pot
when you water your plants you don't care about getting your foliage wet you want the roots so if
you're dealing with some slimy flowers or powdery mildew or black spot funguses if you're watering
overhead then that could be part of your problem so make sure that the water is going to the roots
not necessarily the foliage because obviously the roots are the main source of soaking up that water
all right there we go all right so we've got the beautiful pink mandevilla that is just going to
continue now that's using a nice big pot to really grow and just go wild again she's
going to end up intermingling all through here probably trailing some down that'll be beautiful
the limetime coleus again this will fill in really nicely gives me that great pop of bright
color my sunstar rose pentas major pollinator attractor hummingbirds butterflies bumblebees
honeybees everything you can think of along with the rockin playing the blues
nope rockin blue suede shoes salvia all of this is just really going to fill in and in just a couple
of weeks this is just going to be this massive gorgeous container full of all sorts of blooms
and colors and textures i hope you have found this helpful hope you found it a little inspirational
informative remember it's always it's okay to go ahead and refresh some pots
maybe you just have to replace one plant maybe you need to start all over
who knows sometimes you know life just happens and we just go with the flow
um but as always thank you so much for gardening with creekside we're going to move this into place
y'all have a fantastic day we'll see in the next video bye friends one two three just in the center
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