Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we are going to plant
two fantastic camellias right here um to act as a little bit of a privacy screen to help hide
this area right at the garden shed I am standing right in front of the garden shed if you will
remember we converted this it used to be the chicken coop the coop and then the run
into a garden shed we got rid of our chickens gosh I don't know
three four years ago not even sure now um but we kept the structure and this is a little
unsightly right and so right off of our new patio is this area so we're going to kind of plant these
two here is fantastic this is a brand new one relatively on the market from the Southern Living
Plant Collection it is 'Early Wonder' camellia and we have two of them that we're going to plant here
because these beauties will get six to eight feet tall four to six feet wide i can do two
here i was thinking about three but we have this spigot right here and so that kind of blocks a bit
of an area and we have it concreted in the ground so two is going to work beautifully right here now
the early water camellia is absolute name because it is a japonica so remember japonicas typically
will bloom from like after christmas through early spring they have a fatter leaf on them
but early wonder will actually start blooming in the fall and go all the way through late winter
just a really unique breakthrough as far as camellias go japonicas again like i said typically
are the bigger slower growers early wonder kind of breaks those molds blooms continuously throughout
the fall into the winter in these gorgeous beautiful kind of a lavender pink double bloom
very gorgeous full fantastic flower so we're going to have the early wonders right here
just our little pathway and then we have the tea olives also right here so we're adding in
all those different layers the tea olives in front eventually will get nice and big and grow together
so you won't be able to see the camellias unless you're coming through at a different angle so
it's all about those little secret wonders in the garden so what we're going to do now is
i'm going to move back the mulch so that i can use my auger and get these holes dug these are
three gallon containers and the plants right now are probably i don't know 24 to 30 inches tall so
yeah somebody's going to move back some mulch and then we'll meet back here in just a second
all right so i moved back the mulch just because you know i don't like to
make a mess too much of a mess when i'm doing this
i'm going to use my power planter auger i do have the nine inch auger on the drill and
it does have the special little tip on the end that really helps cut through our red clay soil so
just because this is a three gallon container just one nice big hole and i'll be sure to work
it as i am augging the hole so that will get me nice and a big hole and nice fluffy aerated soil
i will say too four to six feet wide and because we're going for a privacy screen
i'm gonna put them a little bit closer but four feet wide means i probably need to come about
two feet off of the wire because half the plant two feet out
it won't bother me too much if it kind of you know is more touching this because it is a wire
it's fine my feet are about 10 inches wide long not wide oh that would be a fat foot wouldn't it
so one two yep pretty much right where the auger is is where i'm going to um
about right there so jerry and i just had a little uh meeting in the mines and we decided that this
is a good spot now i know and this will maybe drive me a little batty just for a little bit
because i can't put the camellia in the center of this panel because of the spigot and the concrete
that is in the ground and if i put it any closer to the spigot as it grows it will get the spit
it'll overtake the spigot which is not what i want so remember we're going for a hedge that will grow
together so eventually you won't even see this so with all that being said we're gonna all go whole
i'd do it this way
we're gonna make sure that's not a pipe and that's just a rock shouldn't be a pipe
we got some rain the other day in
oh yeah
okay okay so the holes are ogged and i will say this because i forgot about to tell you this too
a lot of times these new cultivars of camellias can take more sun there was one that i really
wanted to put here it's white by the gate it's just a gorgeous it's another japonica
traditional japonica big huge white double blooms but it is shade to part shade
whereas this will get hot afternoon sun and as much as i want to have the white by the gate here
it's just not going to work so i'll have to find somewhere else to put the white by the gate but
early wonder being that new cultivar is actually full sun to part sun so
that works for me so i said okay this is where you just kind of have to accept
your growing conditions your growing spot and then make sure that you're picking the right
plant for the spot as much as i won't wipe by the gate it will not work so that is why we're
going to go with early wonder so the holes are all biotone because that is always a necessity
and then we're just simply going to get them out of the containers and into the ground
with your camellias you do want to make sure that you don't plant them
too deep they do not like to have soggy growing conditions
so make sure especially if you have red clay like we do to plant them high
my soil is mounded up right here so it may look like it's even but it's not
here's the native soil line and there's the root ball sticking up a little bit
i am going to go ahead and put a bag of land and see around here just to give it that little bit
of food because you do not want to give fertilizer to your camellias this time of year when we feed
them come springtime we will feed them with holly tone because they are acid loving plants
and holly tone is a great fertilizer to give them but we don't want foliage growth right now we want
root growth so i am going to get one bag split between the two just simply top dress around it
all right my friends as easy as that i have got two camellias planted nice and easy dig your
whole biotone plant in a little bit high remember especially if you have the clay soil like we do
go ahead if you wanted to add some soil amendments to it like some pine bark finds
you can i did not do it here this will not be on irrigation so as long as we're planting it high
then you'll find a little bit of compost for some nice slow release food over the winter and
they are great now again with these early wonders and with all camellias if you need to prune them
you're going to want to do that late winter coming into spring if you do it any later than that say
summer or even into fall you're going to be cutting off your blooms because camellias bloom
on old growth so only if you need to prune them late winter not but not beyond that because you're
going to risk cutting off next year's blooms here the only i should not have to trim these at all
because the six to eight feet tall will be great the four to six wide will be fantastic all i need
as far as to this path is just to walk through this is not an access point as far as like with
the polaris or the kubota or even a wheelbarrow so this is simply just a little walking path between
the t olives and the camellias but again it'll give us nice evergreen foliage beautiful flowers
from fall all the way through the winter just a fantastic another layer adding to the garden
now i sweet talk jerry into laying some of the flagstone that we have left over from the patio
because we knew that when we had to buy that last pallet that we were going to have some left over
and that we were going to put some of that flagstone right here on that on this path
so while we're here we might as well do it right so we're going to lay down some flagstone
uh
what you think it's down on the ground all right
all right my friends this was a quick easy project for us to get done here later in the afternoon
we've got two chameleons in the ground a little bit of flagstone down now yes i know that we need
to come back in here and add some more mulch to around that flagstone to get it sunk down in there
but i can easily do that by myself one day i can come back and add that in there so i'm very happy
with it those pieces for the flagstone they were quite large and very hard to carry for one person
so that was why i was so grateful to have jerry here that we could get that done and like i said
i can come back in here and tidy things up at a later point but as always thank you so much for
growing with creekside y'all have a fantastic day we'll see you the next video bye friends
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