Hey friends today on Gardening to the Creekside we are unboxing our unique stone order that we
have taken for custom orders for our customers and then items to have here at the nursery I thought
it would be fun to bring you along before the ride to kind of show you those behind the scenes
um kind of items to see exactly you know how things arrive to us because I think just like
with plants you know sometimes maybe customers don't really understand the whole process that
comes with you know growing plants and getting them ready for retail kind of the same thing
with products that we you know sell at to the Garden Center unique stone of course
is that fantastic fellow North Carolinian Company in Rockingham North Carolina and
they make either like their historic replicas or historical inspired pieces that go in your
garden whether it's a statue a bird bath a plant or um little fun Whimsical things
those types of items and they are really high quality will last forever and ever
um really probably outlive us for most of them but they are weatherproof they are meant to be
outside they are meant to be left outside and just really fun great pieces we get about three to four
orders a year from unique stone and we do take custom orders from our customers because there are
they have a huge inventory and you can choose from five different stain colors for the pieces so for
folks who know exactly that they want a certain piece and a certain color it just makes sense for
them to place that order with us that way they are guaranteed to get the item that they want
the order arrived yesterday in an 18-wheeler our friends at Southeastern love that Trucking Company
they're amazing delivered it for us Jerry got it unloaded and then this morning we've got kind of
an all hands on deck here that we are unboxing so I thought again I'm going to take you along for
the ride to show you what that involves they do come on these big huge pallets kind of wrapped in
cardboard boxes for a lack of the better word and unique stone they recycle a bunch of this stuff
so they get these containers you know from other companies and then all the pieces are packed using
um burlap bags and these are coffee bags they will have coffee beans in them and so we have got tons
and tons and tons of coffee bags burlap bags so if you are local and you are crafty and you want to
do something with burlap bags please just come and help yourself because we're going to have
hundreds of burlap bags available to a giveaway and of course to help you pack your pieces these
are the containers when they're empty this is what it looks like we just kind of cut them apart they
have a front panel that comes off and there you go some of them are small and some of them are
very heavy that is why we have the little Bobcat right here with the forks on it so like CeCe just
found the top of the Savannah urn so you're not going to be you're not going to be lifting this
one off because it is super heavy Andrew though just got a little statue so a little bashful Betty
and another little another little dude so those are easy to take off but the big guys not so much
Alyssa and um Randy are over here going through the list tagging pieces so you'll see the ones
that have the like the hot pink survey tape those are the special orders and they're
putting their names on them for the customers and then we will put them off to a side that is just
for the customers so there you go with that and then all the other items are going to be retail
items and they will go out into the area and be available for sale if you were one of those sweet
folks that did a custom order be looking for your email email or voicemail or text because we will
be contacting you within the next day or two and letting you know that your pieces are here if you
will uh just kind of move with a little purpose and come pick your pieces up that way they can
get into your garden and out of here and into your hands all those details of course will be
in that email voicemail that you will get but yeah so we'll contact you let you know that your pieces
are here but it is a process for sure of unloading them because they are not in any kind of order as
far as the boxes we don't have individual on the boxes there's not individual packing lists we just
have a whole packing list for the whole order we have to unload each individual box and then figure
out who is who who goes where whose was this and so kind of all of those things so we've learned
after several years of doing this that it takes a nice team and everybody kind of has their own job
as far as what we do so that it just makes it Go much much smoother so I'm going to take you along
for the ride at the end of the day once everything is unboxed we're going to come back and I'm going
to show you the pieces I'm going to show you the different colors of the stains I'm going to show
you the different items that way if you you know want to order something maybe you see something
and you're like oh my gosh that it would be fantastic in my garden that will definitely
help I know me personally I have found some of my most favorite pieces from either someone else
ordering them or I just kind of took a chance and ordered it because unique stone obviously they
have pictures on their website but when you see it in person it's a whole different ball game so
we're going to show you that if you are interested in placing a special order we will have another
order coming up this for the one more order this year so you can email us at the email address
below that is orders gardening with creekside.com and we can get you clothes and we can send you
invoices all of that fun stuff so we're going to set the camera up and just kind of show you the
behind the scenes of unpacking organizing tagging moving the whole fun process of unique stone
we are almost done with the unique stone order for today it's been fantastic it's
not even lunchtime yet and we are basically done for the day this was a little bit of a
smaller order so we were able to work through it rather quickly and then of course doing this once
or twice we have come down to a really good process of how to handle all this and then
mini hands make it like work right so we're going to walk through just kind of show you the pieces
that we have available these are available for sale ASAP so it is a first come first serve and
again we will have another order of unique stone coming later this fall the exact details will
follow but if you're interested in that please email us asap so we can get you on that list all
right so I'm going to kind of just go through and show you the pieces and try to tell you the names
of the colors and and all the different pieces right the forest gnomes are always so popular they
are just so stinking cute so we've got multiple of the forest gnomes the pineapples of course in here
great side of hospitality and then the Derby foxes back here very very sweet love those cute little
derby foxes as well so just to kind of give you an idea of the colors this would be dark walnut
Sienna red and agent Stone so and then we've got a cute little bashful Betty right here she is light
Walnut and then Herm The Worm Herm The Worm is always he's always popular especially with the
kiddos it is three pieces and then you can just set it out however you like it this is in Sienna
red and then the aged green I believe it is the green um over there on the side now one that
I thought would be a really fun one is this Square planter this is part of the Charleston collection
we actually have this in two different colors this is in the Aged Stone but we always think
of Planters right A lot of times with the Browns shape to it but square is really fun because it
just brings a whole different dimension to your garden to your area and it has just a very nice
simple design on it has little like a little feet almost a little raised area so we've got
some of these really really nice super cute we're going to flip over very carefully here
not to make anybody dizzy we've got three of the Florentine bird baths in all the colors so we've
got light Walnut the green and then the dark walnut there these are great these are great
bird baths very functional very easy to use and then the scalloped urns so these are the scalloped
urns if you remember the hippo that is right there at the barn this is the little scallop urn that
goes on top of the hippo now you can use this for whatever you want right you can have it sitting
by itself you could have it on the edge of your steps I mean just really just about anywhere and
as always with all of the unique stone containers if it's meant to be a planter it will have a hole
in the bottom this there we go so you can see the hole right there so everybody has a hole
that will drain properly one of my favorites are these the rough tapered pedestals and these are
two matching ones in the ancient age really nice again you've got a whole different shape
to them and they're not like overwhelming these are very easy to pick up and move they would be
beautiful by themselves you could put them as a pair again flanking something would be
really nice as we have those Roman urns the Roman urns are what I have behind or between the garden
boxes at the house I have them up on a pedestal currently they have the caladiums in them but
just nice and simple this is that aged Stone we actually have four of these that match each other
and then the cute little Camelot bird bath if you don't want a big tall bird bath you want something
nice and short more ground level then the Camelot would be a great one for you this is the ancient
age and really sweet and then of course the roosters and Miss Prissy so Miss Prissy is the
chicken we've got two different kinds of roosters right here along with hoodie the owl so cute
um a Charleston basketball and then the tables this is a bistro table and I believe this is
ancient age there's two pieces right so the top and the bottom I'm kind of secretly hoping
I have two of these maybe that one of them won't sell or I'll just or I'll just order one for the
signature Garden right and Tuck these in and get some cute little matching chairs like some little
metal like wrought iron chairs to put beside of them precious because it's weatherproof you
don't have to worry about you know the rain or anything like rotting or color great ones
my mama was the one who turned me on to this little uh floral Cartouche great little small
container you can put succulents in here you could put like a little Fern I mean there's
lots of options that you could put in here but this is just a lovely sweet little container
I have my pitcher plants by the underneath the forest pansy in mine and it just does really well
the other two Roman urns of course the Galloway urn and then we have some Western
urns the Western urns are what are on the back patio and we actually have we have two in the
dark walnut an ancient age and then we actually have two more over here and we put them like these
two are color matches for each other and then the two over here are color matches for each other so
if somebody wants to put them together then they will be a match and then we have these um great
urns and the age of stone really nice A little bit of the different detail on it this is called the
short readed urn you could put it on a pedestal or you could just leave it just like this I mean the
possibilities are endless it just depends on what you want to do in your garden and what makes sense
in your garden here we have the Georgian Terrace urn on top of the smooth pedestal and we have got
two of those that match and CeCe said let's put them here and flank the area which I absolutely
love these are the same the exact same ones that I have beside the garage so flanking each side of
my garage I have these leave them out for year round I've had all of my unique stone out for
years and years and they are just doing great and can handle the weather no problem we also have a
we also have another table over here the same at bistro table we've got one little
set of shroomies and these are fun these are the little mini succulent Planters these are
great for the chick charms to go in really nice little of course has your drained hole in it
the other Square armillary container and just this is the ancient age I want to say
more or two of the Roman urns in the ancient age small and it sounds funny but it's a small jumbo
jardinier and that is then the Walnut color I believe that's light Walnut little risers
if you have some pedestals you want to put something on those are the Sienna red we have
those available as well so lots of different options for you and then of course over here
we've got rectangular hummingbird the two westons and then the Asian water bowl the Asian water bowl
is the what we have the little lime standard in in front of the pergola so this is a huge I mean this
is a massive bowl like it is ginormous I think it's like a three by three essentially as far
as the size and you can't you could put a tree in here you could put we originally were going
to make it to a water fountain we decided not to go that route but you could just I mean the world
is your oyster with that thing you could just fill it up and leave things in there permanently I mean
for many many many years and then of course all the different kinds of troughs we've got
all sorts of troughs again I love the troughs because it brings a different shape different
dimension to your garden and we have them in all different like sizes right so you've got the
square humming the rectangular hummingbird rather that's a little bit wider and shorter next to
this fun piece right here um I'd have to look at the actual name on those we've got the
Deco planter like Medallion then all these just different ones in here are really nice really fun
and then I think they're getting ready to put up some Esplanade herbs with the panel pedestals so
we've got four of these panel pedestals this is in the age Stone I'll show you the pieces here in a
minute but they are nice and big so we'll have these beautiful Esplanade urns right here and
we're selling those as a set so I think Brenda's getting hot because she just dug a hole in shoes
she's smooshing herself in there rotten dog absolutely so that'll be fun and then let's
go over here and we're gonna look at the pieces that are already sold so if you're
see your piece you know that it's here and you can come get it just to give you kind of a rough idea
we've got a beautiful bench we've got dragonfly orange we've got geckos we've got bashful betties
we've got toadstools um different uh Planters as far as we've got their Square planter we've
got the cute little uh bird bath is just turned upside down another Charleston boy and then these
are the Esplanade urns as well these are for Tony Tony in Tennessee a sweet friend of ours
and he was so this is going to be the same thing as those Esplanade and the panels over there this
is just in the ancient age so he has those same two pedestals that we just saw a minute ago and
then this is the Esplanade urns they're nice and big so these urns Will Go On Top of the panasons
pedestals rather and make a nice big statement for sure so I think what they're going to do is
um get the rest of those Esplanade urns up and get them squared away onto the panel uh
pedestals it's lunchtime and it's it's toasty praise the Lord ruined the shade today
um but get those set up and then yeah so they're going to be ready so if you
can come prices are on them again first come first serve if you have a special request a
special order that you're interested in email us at orders gardening with creekside.com and
we will get you all taken care of as always my friends we hope you found this fun informative
and inspirational we so appreciate you have a great day we'll see you next video bye friends