Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we are back in the shade garden
and we are going to wrap up this bed for the season by planting um a nice little selection of
annuals in here if you remember we were just here gosh the other week where we planted the
three different wall hangings and they are doing spectacular i used a lot of caladiums because
why not right they're gorgeous so everybody is kind of filling in and doing very happy um
the wall hanging is looking spectacular it is filling out and um yeah i mean everybody's just
being happy i will say when i told you when we did this container right that it would get
some of direct afternoon sun for a little bit of time well that is this time because it's about
2 30 in the afternoon and the way that the sun is coming over the roof of the house
it is going to be in full sun for a bit of time but it is clearly doing just fine and
this caladium is a sun sun or shade as is the white linen terrenia and pegasus can handle it
the feather falls is a shade grass but it's on the other side so it doesn't get too much sun so yeah
everybody is doing just great and we are going to like i said plant some manuals in here i've got
a nice little collection up here so let me show you what we've got we are going to add some more
of the catalina white linen terrenia into the bed this is that same terrain i just showed you that's
in the container it makes a fantastic ground cover and this is sun to shade so we can do either one
i have three little diamond snow euphorbia that i have been holding on to for a long time
um so they are desperate to get out of these containers and into the ground we'll figure
out where we're going to put those then i've got um some lamian this is the pink chablis
lamian it will be a perennial for us we actually sell it as an annual but it is a perennial and
it will come back year after year fantastic ground cover and i want to say that it too
my tag is yes sun or shade which makes it very very versatile so we love that
then the compact white sun patients i had these in the bed last year and oh they were spectacular
so we're going to add some of those and then of course more caladiums this is um
fast flash i love this one i love them all what am i talking about um again sun or shade very
versatile i have fast flash on the front porch and this space especially where i'm going to put these
i think is near the front porch so it will all tie in they're all in the same color family
so all the caladiums will go very well together now where are we going to put these well brenna is
kind of showing you a little bit of where they're going to go so let's um walk up to the front of
the bed where she is and then i'm going to show you the spots that i want to fill in
as with any bed that has a lot of perennials in it every year i have less room to put annuals
because my perennials are getting bigger which is a fantastic problem to have but i do want to add
some of my annuals and i just remembered i forgot one absolute must have is the um bro alia i'll
grab it in a second it's it's in the shade hiding um but we're gonna put that one in there too so
here we have i have a little bit more room towards the front of the house than back there at the back
because those are a lot of hostas that are over there and but here we've got a nice little hole
between the euchara and the boxwood so i'm thinking of doing a nice collection of caladiums
right there that'll really grab your attention and see how it ties in i've got caladiums right there
and can you see them over the top of the boxwoods they're in containers on the front porch
so it'll all be the same caladium here then we've got little holes throughout
this bed on this side that i'm going to fill in a nice good little size hole right here
maybe i'll put some more caladiums there and then of course around the newly planted
camellia this is a white by the gate yes i know she's not looking her best right now but she does
have new growth so that that is a positive you see that nice bright green foliage so she has new
growth this is where i'm thinking about putting the sun patients because they'll get nice and tall
so put maybe two in this area and two in this area and something here probably the terrania here
because it can handle a little bit more sun or maybe i'll put the diamond snow who knows um and
then as we work our way down you can see what i'm talking about i don't have very much room on the
edge of the bed i can put some browalia in there but once we get down here where the hostas are
there is very little room and i have learned that i need to leave myself that edge so when we cut
grass i'm not cutting i'm not chopping up flowers now i do have a little hole here by bashful betty
and underneath annette's holly fern that i could probably put some things
so this is where the fun begins for jenny because i just get to have fun and go hmm that's a hole
what am i going to stick there oh that makes sense yeah let's put that there so i'm going to grab
the bro alia it's a beautiful blue i love it and just does really well in this bed so i'm going to
grab all my plants place them where i want them and then we'll meet back here in just a second
all right i think i have made my uh final plant placement selections so i'm going to
walk you through and just show you what i am putting where and some reasoning behind
in the past i would put tons of annuals all in this bed right here but everybody has grown up so
nice and thick and lush there is no room and i'm just not going to put anything here on the border
it's just too crowded i thought about the lamian but it's going to spread
and it's going to get in the grass it'll be a nightmare so we're going to leave it
now i did go ahead and place the three diamond snow right here around the base of the holley fern
they'll get 12 to 18 inches tall this does get good morning sun for a couple of hours so that
should be just fine for these diamond snows they're pretty versatile the euphorbias are
i've had them in this bed before and they have done great so i'm not too concerned about
them not getting enough sun they will do just fine and then as we um make our way down through here
again i thought about putting the lamian in here but it's just with the color of this
brunera they're the same gray and silver and i was just like gray silver green and i was like
it's too much of a color similarity so i put the terrania in there so we have a terrania
between wiggles and squiggles and the brunera and then another one and an autumn frost hosta so they
are all right there together and then as we make our way of course i had the most room in the bed
around the camellia so i really filled that in we did a balance of the white impatience on each
side so we've got two here two here they will fill in and look like one big one on each side
then this is the endless illumination broadly again i have been holding on to this thing for
gosh probably two months because i knew that we were running out at the nursery and i was like i
have to have this plant so i grabbed a flat i used some in the forest pansy bed this is all
that i have so i had to make my numbers work so i did a little bit kind of of a rhythm with them
in there because that just kind of made the most sense and then i filled in in the center
here with the pink chablis lamian uh again that will fill in and be like one big carpet
right there and should look great and then we have two collections of the caladiums
i put them in groups of three so these are the court size so we have a pop here
and then all the way down there on the corner we have another collection of three
and then to fill in my little holes right here underneath the this is starlight
this is starlight i always get starlight and diva one is starlight one's diva this is starlight
hydrangea right here and so we've got one and two because of course i don't have the heart to to cut
off that part of the hydrangea so we're just gonna leave it just like that oh yeah yeah yeah sorry uh
and then there's a third one right kind of towards brenna where she is so i do have i have one
two and three so that is what the deal is with that so i am going to get my handy dandy power
planter auger it is um telling you y'all it is a lifesaver so i will go through
drill all the holes then i'll come back and give everybody some of the proven winners
time release fertilizer and get them planted once everybody's planted we're
going to come back and top dress with a new product that i want to share with you
all right my friends so all of the annuals are planted in the bed ah feels good to have that
done and we're getting ready to lay down a top dressing on this bed i want to show you one thing
though i just saw this i'm standing here oh where did he go there he is i'm hoping that the camera
will show it if it doesn't show it i'm gonna take a picture can you spot our little friend right
there oh there he goes he's moving it's a baby praying mantis okay we're going to leave him alone
praying mantises are one of those insects that you do want in your garden because they will eat the
harmful insects like aphids so they are good ladybugs we love them so i'm glad to see that
we have a little baby i did have a huge one up on the um caladiums i'll show you that picture
man he was not camouflaged at all i was like dude you better go underneath those leaves cause you're
gonna get picked off by a bird or somebody anyway i digress it's getting late and i'm getting hot
and i'm getting a little chippy here we go this is what we're going to use for a top dress this is um
this is from thafford and if you have been in gardening for any kind of length of time you
probably have heard of safford safford is a line of potting soil and amendments that
has a massive huge reputation for just doing great great things this is their premium natural
organic compost blend it contains shrimp and seaweed it is good of course for your flowers
and your vegetables perennials trees shrubs all the ways that we use compost here at creekside
now you might be sitting there going jenny why in the world are you trying something
new you've always used land and sea you know what's the deal well we have used land and sea
because that that is a great compost however thafford is made by sungrow sungrove is the
company that makes all of our professional soil mixes so all the soil that we get for our annuals
our shrubs our trees um every kind of soil that we use here at creekside on a professional level
is from sungrow sungrow owns fafford they make faffored soils they make this product really high
quality so we're testing it out we have been talking with sungrow they were very kind and
generous and sent us a massive amount of their compost and so we are using it one thing that
i like right off the bat absolutely love about this compost let me see if i can show you here
is if you can see it's got a lot of um aged pine bark finds it is a little bit
shall we say woodier has those pine bark finds which is fantastic for our compacted clay
soil we'll see if that kind of show you there and you can see really all of that age pine bark
now i say age it is not brand new it is not nice and bright this has already started the
decomposition process and just makes great amendments for our thick heavy clay soil but yet
it has all the great nutritional benefits that we love from compost so that is what we are going to
top dress i'm going to start in this area because it is the one that needs it the most and we're
going to see how far we go i don't know if i'm going to take it all the way down we're just going
to play with it and see how it does all right my friends so i have got the thafford laid down in
that main section underneath the camellia jerry showed up so he's holding the camera for me um
we decided that i know right now that the compost is darker because it is wet as it dries it will
lighten up because right now like the cut like there's a big block of a color difference and that
would drive me crazy um but we're gonna wait and see what it dries like and to see if we need to go
ahead and take it all the way through the bed it certainly would help the bed it's just right now
it's the end of the day and i'm hot and sweaty and it's time for a cold iced coffee and i'm
going to get this really well watered in because we have not had good significant rain and those
holes when i og them they were dry remember this bed is not on irrigation so i'll have to
hand water these guys until they get established once they're established they'll be fine for the
rest of the summer but yeah so i'm just going to get everybody watered in we'll wait and see
once the whole bed dries to see what the look looks like and then if we need to come back and
add the compost on the front edges we can easily do that one morning when it's nice and cool
but yeah so i hope you all have had fun learn some new plants i will course will keep you
updated and posted on how we like this compost from fafford but so far we are loving it i have
been using it for a couple of weeks now and it is just doing great so as always thanks
so much for guarding the creek side y'all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends