Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside yesterday Hurricane Ian made its way to us up from
the coast of South Carolina and Florida so we are just going to kind of walk you through and show
you what has happened here at the nursery talk about what we did to prepare for the hurricane
and just kind of give you an update because I know a lot of you were sending lots of wonderful
prayers up and just being very encouraging and kind in your comments so we just wanted to kind
of give you an update on what is going on here at the nursery before we get too far into this
I will say of course that our prayers are for all the folks who have been really severely damaged by
hurricane in and all the effects I know that we have all seen the footage from you know Florida
and the Fort Myers Naples area Jerry and I were just down at Marco Island in January for a little
bit of a vacation so we kind of have a little bit of a first-hand knowledge of what that area was
like and now what it is like and so our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those sweet people
in that area we have friends that live down there everybody is safe but and also then of course it
went back out into the ocean and then made its way back and came in along the coast of South Carolina
and it looks like our beloved area Huntington Beach Huntington State Park Pawleys Island that
is where our family vacations if you will remember we did a video about that area it looks like that
is where the brunt of the hurricane hit and I know I haven't seen a lot of pictures but I can
only imagine that it has not fared very well so all of our thoughts and prayers are for all of
our friends and the Carolinas and Georgia so what I'm going to show you is we sustained very little
damage very little and but we have been through hurricanes before Jerry and I are both products
of living through Hurricane Hugo that came through I believe in 89 . we vividly remember that and we
were without power for like two weeks here we had massive damage it was one of those weird
hurricanes that made its way all the way Inland we are a couple hundred miles from the coast of
North Carolina and South Carolina we are not close to the coast whatsoever for so for a hurricane to
have that kind of damage here is rare that is why we take hurricanes very seriously around here so
what we received was about a little bit over four inches of rain and then some wind nothing
again major but we just want to kind of give you a heads up and show you what's going on because a
lot of people have asked so here I am standing in the trial beds and I was just going to kind
of show you this is some of the quote damage that we received and I do use those terms very lightly
because I know that some of you have just had catastrophic damage so I do use these terms very
lightly here is the coffee cups elephant ear so you can just see exactly that this is just
wind wind damage where it just came in from this direction and pushed that elephant ear that way
I may get in there and try to straighten it up a little bit but also once the Sun comes
out I think it will really kind of come up on its own is this going to kill the plant
absolutely not you know pretty soon we're going to have a our first Frost freeze and so it will
kill all this back this is a perennial for us so all I'm concerned about is the root system
it will be just fine but you can see that we have our huge trees here along the creek Bank
right in here we had you know just a couple of Limbs to come down obviously there's leaves
everywhere but there is no huge damage If This Were Hurricane Hugo we would have had trees down
everywhere so what we just have sustained is just a little bit of wind damage we are this is
Saturday Saturday morning so the nursery is open we have our folks are kind of putting everything
back because we did prepare for the worst you can see the begonias right here these are the
new Surefire whites very tall and they just got laid down so these will probably be coming out
here in the next week or so you can see we just have some standing water right here that should
absorb pretty quickly all of the stock here at the nursery has done really well whatever did
get you know blown over our folks have already tried to pick up and clean up a little bit and
so we're just going to walk over here to the greenhouse because we did move all of the mums
out of the production field and brought them down to the greenhouse because if you've seen
our pictures of our mums you know that they are huge and the thing is about a hurricane you do
have lots of warning that it is coming but you don't know exactly what it's going to do so we
you know got out really really easy but we could have had much more massive winds at one point they
were calling for like 60 plus at mile an hour winds and that would do a number on some things
so we went ahead and brought all the mums here into the greenhouse you can see that Meredith
and Emily there's our look that that they're twinsies today and hey mayor turn around let
me show you this is the appropriate shirt for the day yes the professional plant movers that's right
thank you mayor so we brought in all of the mums from the production field and just crammed them in
here so now the girls get the fun task of bringing them out because they cannot stay underneath the
tables that's just not good for them we have the ones that are in full color they are we have some
that are in Full full color so if you have an event come get some then we have those that are
just beginning to crack the color and then finally we have the late bloomers that are still nice and
tight so remember we've talked about this before that moms we have early mid and late bloomers
so this obviously is a late bloomer because look how small the little buds are if you have
um let's say you are the hostess with the mostest for Thanksgiving and you want to have fall color
this is the mums that you want to buy you want to get the moms that are still really nice and
tight let's say you want to decorate for Halloween which is going to be you know the end of the month
today is October 1st so maybe you want to buy this month that is just cracking color you know
it's a beautiful burgundy but you're going to get the most bang for your buck with those thumbs so
the girls are in here taking all of these that are from under the table and then moving them outside
Emily's very excited about this bless her heart she's only done this once or twice because my
kids are like why do hurricanes have to come when we have mum season I'm like it's just that thing
so my kids are very versed in in moving moms we of course got had to close up all the greenhouses you
can see here that we still have the doors closed then we used our nice big bags of land and sea
to make sure that the doors did not blow open um during the hurricane well during the remnants of
the hurricane that came through all the sides were closed we don't want to have that massive wind so
that's what's so great about these sides that roll up and down is of course they come up and down and
then these vertical bars right here are the guards so that way that curtain can't blow out this way
so nice and secure you can see that the mums right there were doing just fine we did have some winds
that were sustained in that like I think 25 mile an hour kind of you know area as far as winds and
then we're going to make our way over here to the Pines because I have actually not even checked out
the pines and let's see what is going on over there we've got uh Logan and Josh over here
who are who are doing a little bit of Maintenance I think of anything we probably because it being
underneath the Pines we may have like Logan's you know picking up ferns that had blown over we're
going to have sticks you can see we've got plenty of pine needles that have fallen so we can come in
and rake and blow but being underneath the pine trees there's going to be little limbs here and
there again nothing massive we have some plants that blew over but we have no trees that are down
so all of that is wonderful great great news all of the unique stone has just hanging out
there we talked about really the only thing we could have done to protect the unique stone
was to move it out into the big open field and honestly we were we just decided to go
ahead and gamble on that one because we didn't want to have to move all this heavy heavy Stone
everybody's done great again just lots of little limbs down so we will come through today and get
all of this picked up and cleaned up a little bit now what we're going to do is I want to take you
um over to the house and show you how I prepared for the house and yeah a couple more little things
so we're just going to Mosey on over there I'm going to give you an update on that area
as I'm making my way to back to the house of course you have to cross over the Culvert to get
to the house and so this is the creek the creek did not even overflow that is just a testament
and a sign of how slow that rain came down we did not have these massive kind of flash flood
situations which happens a lot during hurricanes so this area did really well it did not even
overflow so that is fantastic news when I was coming over here to the nursery this morning
I did notice that we had um quote damage again I use that term very very Loosely
I'll take this kind of damage all day every day so we had of course you know here at the
um the crossing we have this this bed that's filled with the Coleus and the impatience so
because of the wind coming through you can see that some of the coleus has been
damaged this one was actually uprooted so this will be coming out probably very soon
the impatients probably can stay but several of those you know pockets of coleus have been either
laid down or just because they're so massive and you can see well you know they're the impatience
there's a there's a split there and that's the thing about these winds is they're swirling
and they're coming from all different kinds of directions so you just really there's nothing
you can do here to prepare this this it is what it is and we're going to take it so again this whole
area has been split so the lime time you see some limbs right here because we are underneath these
massive poplar trees and so to only have just some small limbs come down is a really great thing
this coleus of course got split as well so this will all be coming out probably really relatively
pretty soon and then because we have that Creek and we normally keep all the equipment over there
Jerry brought all the equipment and attachments to this side of the creek because if the creek
had flooded like it has in the past there's no way that we can get over to there because the creek
runs the entire length of our property and cuts that property in half all the equipment was put
over here in The High Ground if we had flooding if we had damage we would be able to get to our
equipment so that's what he's going to do is start taking all the attachments back over to where they
belong in the storage area at the nursery so we're going to walk over to the house and I'm going to
show you what I did to prepare the house for the you know the possible high winds and the rain
so here at the house our front of our house is very exposed we basically kind of face Northwest
and with the hurricane you never quite know where how the winds are going to go because it's in that
circular pattern and you get those bands so what I did here for the house was really to think about
the wind I can't control the rain I'm not going to be able to you know move plants and do that
kind of stuff they're tough they can handle it so my main concern was the wind because you just
never know what those wind gusts are going to be like so here at the house what I did was I
removed and I don't know if you can see Brenda's in the house with Megan and she's she's not happy
that she can't be out here with me um so all of the hanging baskets across the front of the house
have been taken down you will see that I did go ahead and lay down the rocking chairs because
we have had winds where they flip them over these two are upright because we did have coffee on the
porch this morning so we turned them up at 5 30 this morning but they were laying down so they're
nice and safe and then I normally or pre pre-e and I had all my mums out and down here through here
so what I did is I just moved them and put them in a group right here up against the wall made sure
that they were well watered so they are nice and heavy that way they did not blow and they
have done great and then if you've watched our videos before you know that I have wind chimes
that hang from right here so I took them down and they are on the bench right there along with
my fall wreath I took is inside and our little sign right there was also just taken down so
now that those winds have gone weird cloudy today but once these clouds go out then you
know we're good to go they're not even calling for any more rain today the water we have talked
about this before so the viola bed did really really well the boys did not get a chance to
um come in here and bury the line so this is a very temporary fix this was just for the storm
because we talked about with the downspout it is not it Just empties right there and when we have
big rain it will wash and create ruts through here so we're going to come in and bury a black
corrugated pipe and then have a little pop-up that'll come out in the yard so what I did
yesterday was or the day before rather just put this temporary pipe there put the stone on it so
it would hold it and you can see that it did wash a little bit right there no big deal whatsoever
um so I'm very happy with how that bed held you will notice that none of that compost washed I
have no wash right there so super super excited with how well that did and then moving around
the ground is squishy moving around here to the back we did really really well again no
major damage whatsoever my nicotine plants that you can see right here they got blown that's all
right I can't if they don't perk back up I'll just trim them back they will do fine we had
some wind damage up here with that coleus again I am not worried about that whatsoever that will
just come out really soon and then you can see back here in the back that everybody did really
well I have a decorative piece of pottery right here I did take the top off because it is um if
anything was going to break it could be that one but even Emily's little rose tree remember this is
the Julia Child Rose in a tree form and she is doing great she was covered in open flowers so
I did have Emily come out here and cut all those flowers in case something happened to it but look
at all the buds and the new growth on this roast tree just stunning if you remember I mean it was
a pitiful just little Twigs but did really well it may have gotten blown just a little bit but
we'll come back in here and Shore her up so that she will do well but you can see back here that
everybody did great the vertigos are a little a little blown over they'll perk back up really soon
um just everything did really nicely the Big Trees held we have we don't even have
any little limbs down back here so everybody did great and then I did come back here on the back
porch the patio area and laid down the more of the rocking chairs all of my wind chimes
got laid down um on the porch but again overall everything did really really well here and we
were incredibly blessed and spared for this time my kids are becoming really good at preparing for
a hurricane and then nothing truly really happens which is the way I will take it every single time
again I know that we have we're incredibly blessed and spared so for that we are incredibly thankful
again all of our thoughts and prayers are for those who have been affected by this hurricane
it is just no joke I tell you the wind the water and fire have absolutely no control over that
stuff and it can be when you see the devastation it can just be so mind-blowing and frightful so
that is why we are incredibly grateful that we're not the ones in charge and we just
um we know we know who holds us and we trust in his sovereignty and his grace so as always we
so appreciate all your love and support thank you for all the messages all the comments all
the prayers all the well wishes we so incredibly appreciate that and um yeah I will have some links
for some areas some different organizations if you wish to contribute to help those that have
been affected by the storm you can click on those and these are great places that your money will
go directly to help those that have been affected so I encourage you if you feel led to donate check
these places out and I'm sure that those that have been affected will greatly appreciate it
as always we appreciate you y'all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends