Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside we are going to start the project of planting
the entrance beds directly here in front of the nursery we have been in this space gosh many
times in the past couple of years and today we are going to like I said begin planting and bringing
in lots of beautiful color now we've had to kind of tweak this area just a little bit because of
water we've talked about this before nothing this flat here at Creekside there are Hills
and Valleys everywhere here at Creekside Nursery we are called Creekside Nursery because we have a
creek and it does cut our property it is literally like right behind this flower bed it cuts our
property from the personal house entrance all the way you know separates the nursery
so when you have a creek all the water flows to the creek correct so we have um pretty good little
Hill here in front of me and if you've been to the nursery you know that it's a slight decline all
the way so we get water from a mile away right it all comes this way when we have torrential rains
a normal rain not a problem torrential rains are a problem because it comes here and it just cut
through this flower bed behind me in two different areas so we have learned living on this property
for almost 20 years now that you don't stop water you try to help it and tell it where to go this
time we literally worked with where the water runs Jerry um took the equipment and we have two areas
where we had major wash this winter that cut right through our Viola bed that I think you
saw us plant that in the fall we had violas and ornamental kale in here over the winter we had
two major washes the one over two mile left hand shoulder was not as bad it was just a small it
was a small rut however this went to my right was really a deep wide rut that was washed away by all
of the water so we got all of the old flowers out and then Jerry came in with the bobcat and
where that water rant he literally just helped pull back more soil so that way we're going to
create a basically like a Dry Creek bed in here when the rains come again because they will that
way the water can just run over the rocks and then down into the creek So speaking of rocks
Andrew has been working in the past two days getting these creek beds put into place we had
some flagstone left over we had all these sorts of materials left over from other projects that
we had so we had flagstone we had larger River Rock and then we had the small decorative gravel
so it really looks very nice as Jackson said it looks more like a pathway in a walkway than it
does a creek bed so if you're coming to visit feel free you can walk on the creek bed it'll make it
nice and easy but that way when the rains come it will go and it will flow onto the flagstone and
then like I said down into the creek now when that happened right so we put in these two creek beds
um basically we kind of divided our flower bed up into different sections which actually works
really fun in A Creative Design sort of way so it's not just this one big open massive area we
have now little smaller nooks and crannies that we can plant Jerry brought in Jerry and Andrew
brought in just like bulk compost soil to build this area up so we want to the flower beds to be
raised up a little bit so that only AIDS in the water flowing through the rocks and not cutting
through the flower beds so what we're going to do today is we are going to plant one of these
three sections the largest section is to my right we're going to hold off on that for another day
here in the middle it is very a very loose triangle the front edge of course is nice
and sharp Andrew came through with the bed edger so we have a nice defined Edge and then in the
back it's more rounded but we're going to work with that and then of course all the way to the
far right is where our quick fire Fabs are and other areas so I've got plans for that we're
focusing on this area today and we're only we're going to keep it really simple we're only going
to use three different kinds of plants there in the middle you can see that we have coffee cups
we have two large coffee cups these are elephant ears from Proven Winners they're a for us a tender
perennial I have had some in the trial beds that have Faithfully come back for gosh four
or five years I got them the year before they were introduced so whenever that was so they could and
probably will come back for us year after year if we decide to keep them in this design so they are
going to go in the center of the bed both in the center from left to right and from front
to back because I want them to grow up as one big huge massive elephant ear like one specimen
and then we're going to work around that then surrounding the elephant ears and in behind the
elephant ears we're going to use some caladiums I do adore caladiums and so we are going to use
the heart to heart lemon blush caladium it is a beautiful shade caladium that has kind of a
pinky red Center and a nice lemony yellow with a little bit of green on the outside edges it is a
shade caladium this space gets some Morning Sun but that should be fine we we're working
with what we have because we have these beautiful massive trees here a gorgeous specimen of a tulip
poplar right here that does give shade so we're going to work with that and use these caladiums
going to surround the coffee cups with those and then coming down in the front we're going to use
one of my favorite plants the euphorbias right the Diamond Series the diamonds know
Diamond snow will get get a little height to it about I think it's what like 15 15 inches or so
somewhere around there but it's nice big huge pop of white which is what we want because that white
is going to really stand out from a distance which again is what we want here in this flower bed so
I just know that the diamond snow is going to go across the front I don't know exactly how this is
going to get laid out we'll figure that out as we go along I do have two of my power planter augers
I'm wearing my power planter shirt today so we're going to use the big the big boy for the coffee
cups because those are three gallon containers so that is the nine inch auger on that one
so we'll use that and then I've got the smaller five inch for my grande size containers we did
put it on the smaller drill because a lot of this is nice fill soil right we brought it in so it's
still nice and fluffy and is not tight and compact so I can use that smaller drill it is lighter so
when I have areas that are not you know really compacted I do like to use that because it just it
goes a lot faster it is kind of towards the end of the day it's like about 3 30 in the afternoon I've
already done one project for today so I'm going to try to slide in and make this really easy today so
I'm going to get everything laid out and then um I think just we're going to keep it really simple
I'm going to get everything laid out and then get them planted use the augers to drill my holes
I'm going to use the proven Winter's continuous release fertilizer on the annuals and probably a
little biotone on the coffee cups why not I've got a little bit of bag so I'll use that and
then we'll get this project done and complete and move on to a date night tonight yeah sounds good
today's project is complete it is a rather simple design but it is going to make a huge impact it
already makes a huge impact in this area and I cannot wait to see it grow and develop so what
we did was of course we put the two elephant ears the two coffee cups in the center of the bed and
planted them essentially as one plant this is about as close as I could get the containers
together it will not take very long at all for those to fill in all the way and really look like
one nice big huge coffee cup specimen so we're using this as a specimen for this bed and then
I just randomly put in there the lemon blush caladium the front and then surrounding the
back again those two will get nice and full and thick get some height to them they will
be slightly taller than the diamond snow in the front but make these nice big beautiful Mounds
great shade caladium lovely color especially with being a shade caladium and being the colors that
it is it's really going to kind of pop and look really nice against the dark foliage of the coffee
cups now the diamond snow um it will be that nice big huge thick pop of white and really they're
going to grow and it's going to be one huge massive carpet of white flowers right here you
may be thinking okay so the coffee cups will say full sun the diamond snow is going to say sun but
you're putting it in a shade caladium the coffee cups and the diamond snow are very very versatile
right and remember this does get Morning Sun so this gets a good four-ish five-ish hours of Sun in
the early morning but then as it comes over these trees then it goes into the shade so they all will
do really nicely together this is where it becomes being a student of your own garden and watching
your space and really understanding how your space changes or looks throughout not only the day but
also throughout the season because in the winter time of course all these massive trees they have
lost their leaves right so this is a full full sun bed but that is winter summertime they all
Leaf out and I get I'm getting more shade in the back than I am in the front so just watching and
learning and trying to figure out okay is this going to work or is that going to work and the
best way to do that is just get out there and try if a plant thrives and does great awesome if you
notice that it's struggling then kind of analyze it figure out what's going on and then maybe you
need to move it or maybe you just need to adjust some of your conditions like how much water it's
getting is it getting enough fertilizer that kind of thing gardening certainly teaches you how to
problem solve and analyze and be patient so this area is looking very nice very excited about it
now the whole bed is on irrigation because we were going under a little bit of construction we went
ahead and took those lines and just pulled them out and pulled them in the back so if you see 80s
Brown tubes that is the drip irrigation it comes from One Source across right near the creek and
the culvert and then it comes through here and in a web of irrigation lines we were talking about
it's probably just going to be easier that we're going to go back to the source right there at the
um the Culvert and the creek we're going to go ahead and cut it pull all these lines out get them
straightened out and then rework them through the bed because they are all on one zone They all are
working together and I think they're pretty much all one line I'm not sure that there's a lot of
like teas and couplers and elbows in there I want to say that they're pretty much all One Singular
line so that way we're still using the exact same drip tube but it'll make it a whole lot easier
instead of trying to like wrestle that irrigation will probably come up from the back we'll run the
irrigation to the shrubs then come up through the river rock from the back of the bed of this bed
and wind it through here that is where we maybe we have to cut it and do some couplers and join
things together we'll figure that out when we get there but everybody is nice and well watered
ground is nice and moist so we are good to go this is going to be a fun development as we get these
beds all laid out and planted gonna make a nice welcome for our customers to come see us so as
always we thank you for gardening with Creekside we hope you have found this a fun informative and
inspirational y'all have a fantastic day we'll see in the next video bye friends