Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we are going to add some more trees and
shrubs to the berm planting so stinking excited it is a gorgeous crisp November morning here
at the nursery and I am going to be adding two new trees and then a camellia to this fantastic
section that we have done and remember we have put in this massive berm flower bed to separate
our personal gardens the house from the nursery we had that great fantastic split rail fence going
down the middle and if you remember just a few days ago we planted a bunch of 15 gallon trees
in this space so today the ones that I'm going to highlight really excited about them they are
all going to be Evergreen they're going to give me lots of seasons of interest and so this is
going to be a really fun video looking forward to putting them in the berm so let me just go through
and give you the specs on these plants first and this beautiful pot right here I have a stellar
Ruby Magnolia and Stellar Ruby is not going to be the traditional Magnolia that we think of when you
think of the South right this is a type of banana shrub it does beautiful Ruby colored blooms and
they smell exactly like a ripe banana it is the craziest thing ever to think that a flower smells
like a ripe banana but it does now Stella Ruby is going to be really fun because it's going to be
taller than it is wide it's going to be actually a pretty narrow tree in the fact of I think it's
like I'll have all the specs on the screen for you because forgive me if I get them a little
bit wrong but 10 to 15 feet tall but like six to eight feet wide so we're going to have a lot of
fun with this one we're going to put it more up to the top of the berm kind of near the driveway
but this is just going to give us gorgeous year-round structure because it is an evergreen
those fantastic blooms it just will go from like summer and then periodically throughout the season
you're really not going to have to prune this like it naturally has a more tight upright habit on it
we have not pruned this girl at all it is just it is what it is and looking gorgeous so we've got
the Stella Ruby then if you remember when Jerry did his Nursery Tour he showed you these golden
Oakland Hollies and he told you that you needed to come and get them because they might end up in
the berm well he was a little bit correct and the fact that one is going to end up in this berm now
this is a really unique Holly and the fact that it has really kind of Oak Leaf shaped leaves on
it and it has that gorgeous color variation in it this is a full sun holly tree if you were to
put this in the shade you're going to lose your bright color in fact just to make my point we
had you know several of them together and right here you can see where it was shaded and it's
a solid green so if you were to put the gold in Oakland in a shady area it's just going to be like
a green it's going to be like an Oakland Holly instead of the golden here of course this burn
we're out here first thing in the morning and we are already in the full sun lots and lots of sun
gorgeous color to it I'm actually going to put it on this side the house side of the North Pole
arborvitaes so I'm going to have a beautiful solid dark green background with this gorgeous
variegation in the front of It ultimately it's going to be about 15 to 20 feet tall 12 to 15
feet wide so I'm going to plant it by itself on a panel and because I'm planting for longevity right
so I'm thinking like when it's mature what else can be around it right there well really nothing
because it's going to fill up the whole Space but come this spring this summer I will use my annuals
to fill in around it and behind it so that way it doesn't look like it's all lonely and sitting
there by itself so the golden Oakland Holly is going to go in really really really excited
about that and then of course because we are North Carolina a Zone 7B a true Southern garden needs to
have some Camellias so we are going to be adding the October magic Ruby I'm trying to find one
that has a pretty flower on it for you so October magic Ruby is if you're familiar
with camellia's very similar kind of in the fact of the shape of a shishi gashira so it
is going to be wider than it is tall it's only going to be about three to four feet
tall but four to five feet wide so I'm going to plant it near the Oakland Holly towards the
front of the flower bed that way if I want to put something taller behind it I can do
that later I don't have exactly what plant I want to put behind it right now but let's see
um if I can show you obviously October magic Ruby is going to be a gorgeous reddish Ruby color Bloom
really nice color structure if you're familiar with Camellias you're gonna be like Jenny you just
said that the you have full sun and Camellias need to go into more shade true the traditional ones do
but Southern Living has developed these Camellias where they need more sun so it's like a full to
a part sun so they can do lots of good sun right here plus I am going to be putting it a little bit
towards the creek side and if anywhere is going to get shade first it's going to be down here
so I have three of them not sure on the exact placement of those but we'll figure it out as we
go along so I am going to get Stella Ruby golden Oakland oktober magic Ruby in the ground I will
also say obviously going back to this Camellia it is a sanqua so sanquas have a little bit of the
smaller flower leaves on them and they're the first to bloom so it's the sanqua blooms from
fall into early winter that is why this sweet thing is blooming right now so I'm just going
to get everything set up try to figure out exact placement on it and then we'll get to planting
thank you
foreign
my friends so we got the Stellar Ruby Place it took a little finagling because I had to
figure out exactly where I wanted it I knew I needed it in this area we ended
up going ahead and putting it exactly halfway between the red sunset maple and the Yoshino
cherry tree so this is a it's either a 7 or a 10 gallon plant we're not really sure
and I have my auger bit here that will do for three gallons the soil here of course
is very loose and low me since it's all new soil coming in so I am going to OG my hole
I've got my biotone we're going to get this in the ground and then move on to the next ones
all right so sweet thing is in the ground she looks great here now Stella Ruby is a tree
right now probably looks more like a shrub but remember will be a treat so when you're
starting out with a tree that's in a smaller container and then it's going to have like a
main like main trunk you're going to have to do a little maintenance on it so what I will
do is as it grows and there is vegetation down here at the bottom there's leaves I will just
simply either like get my pruners and clip it off so as she grows I will train it up a little
bit to have more that you can see a little bit of the trunk and then of course the canopy up
at the top but she is in she's going to be nice and happy we are not going to be watering today
because one it is November cooler temperatures nice and cool the plants are not under stress
the plant itself was well watered before I put it in the ground we had two days of
rain this past weekend so the ground is nice and moist already and then in two more days
we're supposed to expect a whole day of like big rain there's like a tropical storm coming through
she's just fine I don't need to saturate her and drown her in water would be great obviously we do
have Irrigation in this bed so once we hook that up I will make sure to put her on a dripper now
we're going to go ahead back down the berm and get the Holly and the three Camellias planted
all right my friends so now we are ready to get the Camellias and The Holly And
um the ground you will see where I have them is where they're going to go and you may I can
hear you right now you're like Jenny oh my gosh you're planting that Holly Tree on the
very edge of the flower bed what in the world woman well okay I'm planting for longevity and
a holly tree as far as the growth rate on it it's not like a super fast like it's it is a
tree after all it is not going to reach its mature size in like a year it's going to take some time
so I'm planting it far enough away from the fence so that at maturity it will be touching the fence
since even some of those limbs will be going through the fence but still have room it's not
going to interfere with the North Poles we can easily bring the flower bed out you know as the
tree is growing we can extend that flower bed out that is why we put the berm where we did and we
have all this great empty space in front of us so I can extend that in the meantime that's what I'm
saying I was telling you earlier I will use my annuals this spring summer fall to fill in the
back and around it so that that little Oakland doesn't look like really out of place same thing
with these Camellias these October Magics they are evenly spaced four and a half of my feet
apart and so that means that at maturity they will just be kissing each other that means their limbs
will just barely be touching one another which is what I want and then I still have plenty of room
if I want to put an accent piece here in the middle or something along the fence I have plenty
of room to do that in my brain right now what I am envisioning for this coming growing season spring
summer is perhaps a vertigo grass here kind of in the middle of these Camellias because remember how
big the vertigos get when they're on irrigation they get massive so just one of those can go here
I was thinking about putting a vertigo maybe behind the Oakland but knowing how huge they
get and I need the sun to be getting all around that Holly maybe I'll do then like purple fountain
grasses so it'll still be the same color it'll still have that grassy you know sway movement
with the wind but I'll have height here that will pop really nicely off of the North Poles
same color but shorter stature will not interfere with the growing of the Holly on the other side
that's my initial thoughts but we'll see what happens what actually happens come next year so
I am going to do the exact same thing I am going to he's my power planter auger I am going to drill
my holes for all four of these I'm going to use my biotone and then I'm going to come back and fill
them in because we do have you know clay soil even though this is like um not all the native soil of
course we did build this bed up and brought in an amendments it still does have that clay
composition to it so I like to raise my shrubs and my trees about an inch or so above the ground that
way I don't want them to sit in lots of water especially Camellias Camellias love organically
rich soil and they like water but they hate to have wet feet it has got to be well draining soil
that's what's great about being on this berm is that it sheds you know water so that is great so
we're going to do that you may be wondering why we don't have why are we not putting down mulch like
why are we not adding Land and Sea compost like why are we not doing that one the top dressing
for the flower bed we have got a fantastic mixture that we partnered with our lack of a better word
a soil farm right so they do different blends of soils so we talked with them and so we have
our own kind of blend of and I don't know the I want to say it's like a 60 40 ratio of like age
pine bark fines and then compost Leaf litter all sorts of great stuff that really does amend and
and add to the nutrition the overall health of our soil that is what we're going to come back
and top dress this whole bed with but I'm going to wait until the vast majority of the plants
that I want to get in for this fall winter once they're in and the bed is edged then we'll come
back and do the whole bed all at one time it just makes more sense to do it that way they're
perfectly fine sitting out here it is November after all they are not stressed whatsoever
we're not using land and sea or a compost like at the bagged compost that we're adding in here
because remember we've already did the bulk Amendment Jerry brought in truckloads of our
using our landscape truck we have that in bulk so he added that you'll see there's different areas
of black that is just the compost it is deep down in there so the ground already has that compost
blend in there so yeah I think that answers all the questions that I can foresee you asking me so
we will get these in the ground pretty quickly and uh yeah then this project will be done
thank you
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my friends so the project Force this morning is complete man I love it every time we put plants
in here or we move the next step into something else gets done on this project it just makes
me happy I do have lots more plants we're going to put in here but for today adding that golden
Oakland Holly makes me really excited I can just Envision it in my brain when it's full and it's
mature and it's beautiful with that gorgeous variegated foliage it is going to be stunning
and then those Camellias I'm sorry I am a born and bred Southern Girl and I do love Camellias
it is that time of year here in the South where those succinct was have started to bloom just
like those October magic rubies and man it just is such a nice refreshing sight to see these gorgeous
blooms in November right the rest of the garden is going to sleep and these Camellias are just
starting to wake up and be very very very happy it's going to be fantastic gorgeous beautiful
dark green glossy foliage here in the flower bed stunning and then of course our Stellar Ruby
Stellar Ruby is going to be a really fun plant for me I have never grown like in my landscape a
banana shrub so this is going to be really fun it has bloomed I have smelled it with my own little
sniffer before and it does really smell like those ripe bananas that is going to be fun to have it
up closer to the driveway so that way you know when we're walking either we're walking Brenna or
we're going to go get the mail or whatever we're driving by and we'll get that little fragrance
of some ripe bananas it is going to be really fun and then of course with that just that Evergreen
foliage bring lots of good beautiful structure to the Garden to the space with those beautiful
Ruby blooms so it has been a very productive fun morning and again getting plants in to
this berm is always so much fun we appreciate you thank you for all your love and support as
always thanks for gardening with Creekside we'll see you in the next video bye friends
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