Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside I am going to be adding two new shrubs to the
chicken coop gardens and I am so excited about this because if you follow me for a length of
time I always tell myself Jenny you know you're not gonna you're not gonna go after that Garden
you're not going to plant anything in that Garden you're going to let it sit for a little while well
inevitably I do because I am a gardener at heart and I just add love to be out in the
garden and add things to my space so this space is relatively new right I mean in the last gosh six
months this whole place has been created and so we are developing this as we go along I wasn't going
to add anything because it is August and it is hot here in North Carolina Zone 7B but what I'm going
to add these two shrubs will fantastically wonderfully adapt to our heat and humidity
and they grow really well as far as their root systems and the heat so what are we going to add
well first we're going to add a budlia a butterfly bush we are going to add Violet Cascade Violet
Cascade is going to be in the same family as the pink Cascade 2 that is in the berm and you
saw when we did that garden tour of what an epic butterfly bush this thing is it is massive and it
is gorgeous Violet is going to be that sister companion piece to Pink it is obviously just
going to be a different color so butterfly bushes they are hot weather shrubs like they do their
active growing in the Heat and so that is why I'm going to be adding it in August to this space now
the the Cascades can get rather large and so that is why they are in that Cascade Series so Violet
Cascade can be about four and a half feet tall and five five and a half feet wide so I'm only going
to plant one of them because this Garden space up here is relatively small I don't have room
normally the desire right now to plant like a hedge of them a hedge would be stunning but here
we're just going to plant one as a specimen these butterfly bushes are going to be Hardy in zones
five to ten so me at a seven I am like right there in the middle and I am perfect for that
the Cascade series as a whole tends to be a little bit of a later Bloomer so they are
later than the pugster butterfly bushes so this extends my Bloom season into the late summer
and it is just it really likes fertile slightly alkaline soil good drainage and then of course
like all of our butterfly bushes they bloom on New Growth and so we will prune it back for me
in late February going into spring which is going to be about late February into March so we will
prune that back so we're going to add a violet Cascade and the plant is already gorgeous and
the butterflies are already all over it very excited next Vanilla Spice Vanilla Spice is
a summer sweet or a it's a type of plethora this is a native plant to North America and
I have always loved this plant but I don't have it in my garden anywhere yet and which is just an
absolute crying shame so we are going to fix that today Andrew was sweet enough to go grab me three
um so we're either gonna plant either one as a specimen I don't know we're gonna plant one two or
three we're time will tell when we figure it out the Vanilla Spice like I said is a summer sweet
it is going to be a later Bloomer they're going to get kind of big so this is why I had him grab me
three but I may only go down to one because they can be three to six feet tall and three to five
feet wide vanilla spices get their name because they do beautiful kind of pure white flowers
that smell Divine massive pollinator attractor I mean your honeybees your bumblebees go nuts over
this plant and absolutely love it then in the fall they turn a brilliant yellow like the foliage is a
brilliant yellow I say it's like big bird yellow makes a huge statement in the garden in the fall
these do great in wet soil so this is why we're going to put a vanilla spice up here is because
back there in the back kind of near where the little seating area is we have an area that we're
discovering that when we have good rain that the water will naturally kind of flows through that
area it's not a wash but we can see where water has traveled down through this space and going
down into the ditch to get out of here because of course nothing is flat here so everything water
just travels all the time Vanilla Spice will be great to put there because it does really really
well in wet soils also because it is a plethora it can naturalize what does naturalize mean that
just means that it can spread so it could send out whether it's runners or little baby plants
out from its source in this space that's totally fine with me because I have nothing else around
here and it can go ahead and spread as much as it wants to in this area it's not a tight confined
bed where I have all sorts of other plants right around it it can just go and be absolutely fine
they are going to be let's see let's say native fragrant large flowers highly adaptable great for
rain Gardens it can be a specimen plant borders it does have medium deer resistance on it and yeah it
does like the moist soil the more I'm sitting here talking to you about this I think we're only going
to plant one I think I just want to plant one that way it can just go if I go ahead and plant
three yes it would make a bigger statement faster but I could be shooting myself later on kicking
myself because I planted too many and they're naturalizing too much so I think we might just go
with one that way it can get nice and big because at three six tall three five wide you only need
one and I have a very strong sneaky suspicion that is going to do really well in this area so we're
going to go ahead and brave the Sun and we are going to start with the butterfly bush and then
we're going to move to the vanilla spice okay my friends so this is where Miss Violet Cascade is
going to go if it is not a gorgeous specimen I mean this is a three gallon pot absolutely
stunning we started this from our friends at Walters Gardens and my gosh happy happy happy
but you can see it's just now starting to bloom and absolutely covered in butts so we're gonna
do is we're going to put it here kind of on this corner backside corner of the chicken coop right
between my cherry tree and my Elm now with your butterfly bushes you have to make sure that they
have plenty of well-draining soil if you are like me and you have heavy thick clay soil then you
definitely want to plant your butterfly bush High what does that mean it means that when you plant
it that your root ball is going to be sticking up about at least an inch because we want water
to shed away and not sit around the crown of the plant or it will rot and die so I've got my power
planter auger this is the nine inch auger because that's perfect for three gallons and we're just
gonna go after it we're gonna dig the hole put some biotone in and then plop her in the ground
and she should never know that she's been moved because that's the beautiful thing about container
plants no roots will be cut she's just going to go in the ground and be a happy little camper foreign
Cascade is in the ground definitely wanted to plant this one high it's a butterfly bush so
by Nature I'm going to plant our high two this does seem to be maybe a little area where water
is going to travel through so Elevate her that is a good thing though is that yes I know that water
May travel through here but we are definitely on a slope so it's just going to keep on going
root ball is nice and up above the ground now I do have exposed clay soil right here because
I couldn't fill in my whole because the plant's in there so what I'll do is grab some Mulch and
just kind of Disguise my red clay a little bit and boom there she goes now you will notice I am not
going to water her in right she was well watered when she was in her pot the ground is very wet we
seem to be in a pattern where we're getting those late summer thunderstorms so we could easily get
rain again I do not want to drown my butterfly bush do not over water your butterfly bush one
more time for the folks in the back do not over water your butterfly bush you will kill it we
have for our first chicken coop we had some Miss mollies planted up against the the chicken run
at that time we let our chickens free range and if you have chickens in a garden you know they can
destroy a garden lickety-split so they came in and over time they were digging around those butterfly
bushes to get to the worms and the bugs this happened for over years butterfly bushes never
missed a beat but literally I had the plant coming out with exposed roots that then hardened off much
like tree roots and it was like sitting on top of the ground while the smaller Roots were down in
the bottom they did not care they were perfectly fine so do not plant your butterfly bushes too
deep do not over water them leave them alone butterfly bushes are very much like hydrangeas if
they are dry they will show they will Wilt so you can come give them a little drink of water or wait
till the sun gets off of them and if they perk back up then I still probably may not water them
if they're still wilted in the morning that means they're dry so just keep an eye on it do not over
water your butterfly bushes one more time so now we're gonna just Bebop down over here to the other
side and we're going to get that Vanilla Spice in the ground so we're not going to plant one we
are going to go ahead and plant three this is you know game time decision here folks so we're gonna
plant all three you can see we have them laid out in a very loose triangle right here Vanilla Spice
is listed as sun to part sun I was checking uh the time and our location it is 12 45 in the afternoon
and these two are just getting a little bit of dappled Sun they as the sun progresses they'll
still get sun but they will be dabbled a little bit by these oak trees and so forth we're just
going to go for it and uh why not right it's all the one experiment anyway but this is where the
water kind of runs through a little bit right here they will get lots of good natural water
none of this bed is going to be on irrigation so they're just going to kind of have to survive on
their own which they will once they're established these native plants will do great we're going to
do kind of the basically the exact same thing right I have them placed I am going to use
this nine inch auger drill some holes biotone and then get them in the ground simple as that
we got the three Vanilla Spice planted and I am
I don't know if the camera's showing this but I literally have sweat dripping down
my face and off the tip of my nose it is oh it's a Humdinger of a day today out here but
short project we got some plants in the ground these are plants that love the heat
will naturalize just get nice and adapted these will naturalize butterfly bush will not great
another thing about the butterfly bush while I'm thinking about it I'm talking about naturalizing
the Cascade is a sterile variety so those of you maybe that butterfly bushes can be pesky in
your area that is a sterile variety so proceed as you would like on that Jerry and Andrew were all
kind of working here trying to get all the mulch spread out so we can get out of this red clay
because oh my gosh we have got some red clay now let's talk about why I changed my mind on these
vanilla spices and why did I decide to go ahead and plant three and not just the one specimen
I planted three because this one is going to be gorgeous and I just can't help myself this is
where I don't have self-control but I'm backing up so that you can see hopefully right so they're
right there at that tree I will not plant any other plant anywhere near that so this will be
I kind of like it imagine that the chairs are not there though I'm sure they will get moved
but just imagine right so here we have the edge of the chicken coop you've got this oak tree
and then you've got those three vanilla spices back there and especially in the fall when they're
bright yellow it is going to bring your eye to that area big time because right they can get
so big so because we are in North Carolina it is red clay it is wet right there and they like it
to be wet and it's a native plant I fully suspect that they will grow to their full mature size here
relatively pretty quickly so I would say this time next year they're going to be doubled or tripled
in size and then you go to your three year four and they're going to be pretty much full grown
that'll give me a nice little border right there I imagine that they will grow all together and B
right there bright yellow in the fall gorgeous white flowers mid to late summer and it will
be stunning you can see Bruno is finding the shade of course she is she's good at that in
August that sweet little German Shepherd just has a hard time with her dark dark fur side note yes
I because I know y'all are all like just on pins and needles about this we got our first egg today
yes so the girls we know that it was a green Queen we had three green Queens because um it
was a bluish green egg and they are the only ones that will lay that color egg so it was small but
it was our first egg and so we were very happy about that Jackson found it when he came to come
feed them this morning it was actually underneath the feeder so we need to work a little bit on uh
placement of egg laying but over in all it did we were super excited to have that and we should then
continue to go forth with having some eggs okay back to the plants this whole little collection
right here are plants that are going to be added to these Gardens hanging out with them while the
rest of the garden gets made and it is more appropriate to you know go ahead and get them
planted we've got two different rose bushes these are all from Proven Winners they sent
us a lilac this is the per pink we've got two of those two three of the double play dolly spireas
the Cedar Rapids super excited about these guys because they are growing really well I was afraid
maybe we wouldn't they wouldn't do well here but man they are handling the heat like a champ
and growing these will be trees so I'm hoping that maybe we can get them somewhere in here
We've Got Sublime Invincible sublimes we've got puffer fishes three puffer fish that are
doing quite well they too will go in here and the lots of the good Sun we've got a pugster Pinker
thank you butterfly right on cue that you came in that would get planted somewhere in here Temple
of Bloom is doing quite nicely the sprinters these are the sprinters that I rescued relocated shall I
say from the urns on the patio to El ninos these will go probably somewhere down in the display
Gardens signature Gardens my little tater tots remember my little tater tots from those front
Planters by the sidewalk so they're doing well incorporate them somehow and then I have some
Quince this is a double white Quince that will go into the garden and be quite lovely
so coming over here so slightly panning and then there you can see the Violet Cascade so
I think it's going to be really nice because two let's just come down here and give you a
perspective because I like giving perspectives kind of like the grand scheme of things
it's going to be quite an impressive butterfly bush nice and it has that draping Habit to it
so it'll be nice different texture than the other plants that I have in this area of course
because right we've got trees hard trees growing upright very upright hard with the tree and what I
mean hard I mean as far as like the structure and then that Violet Cascade right there imagine that
basically five feet tall six feet wide have a kind of a weeping Habit to it it will be gorgeous and
I don't know if I showed this to you last time I can't remember if I did or I did not the smoke
bush planted this smoke bush with the other ones look look at all of this gorgeous growth I am so
happy as I was afraid I was like oh no she's just sitting there she's not doing anything
um but man gorgeous growth got some buds on it could not be happier with this guy for sure
is doing great all right my friends so today's project is complete I am a complete sweaty mess I
am glistening quite well um sparkling you got all the things so as always thanks so much for growing
with Creekside y'all have a great day we'll see in the next video and we appreciate you bye friends