Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside and our weekly nursery tour this is a fantastic
way to see exactly what is growing blooming and thriving here at Creekside Nursery in Dallas, North
Carolina for those of you that don't know we are a zone 7b we are in the Piedmont of North Carolina
just west of Charlotte so that kind of gives you a frame of reference of where we are and our climate
it is middle early September and it is still hot and sticky and humid today though there's a little
bit of crisp in the air which we are very very happy about we've got gorgeous fall color that we
cannot wait to share with you we've got mums and pansies and violas so we're going to take a tour
of all of those beautiful things and then i also want to mention of course we are a supplier of
unique stone products if you are familiar with unique stone they are just amazing containers
and planters statuaries made right here in north carolina we are now taking orders for our
spring delivery so that will be spring of 2023 that's all i know i'm not saying an exact date
we'll just say springtime that it will be arriving so if you know unique stone and you
know of a specific piece that you want we would prefer and to ensure that you get exactly what
you want if you will email us at the email address below that is orders at gardeningwithcreekside.com
that way we can give you a quote if you decide on a piece we know exactly what color what style we
can invoice you and you can paint online it's a really simple process that way you are guaranteed
to get the piece of unique stone that you want so send those in the deadline is saturday november
the 19th so that is my cutoff date so i need to have your orders in and paid by that date
now without further ado let's talk about some really beautiful plants yesterday if you remember
yesterday's video jerry and i went to go visit king's nursery and it's not king's nursery
it's king's greenhouses i just say nursery because it is a nursery and they are fantastic grower
retailers but it is technically kings greenhouses in monroe north carolina and they this is where
we get especially like our initial flush of fall color we get it from them so if you're looking
all you want to figure out the production process go back and look at yesterday's video i will have
it linked um so yeah so we've brought all the fall color in here into the greenhouse and we've
tried to divide them between pansies and violas so pansies are all one table viola's on another
table this is just the first wave we bring these in and refresh these constantly do it and and we
grow that's right so jerry was just giving me some cues behind there yes so we bring it in constantly
and we are growing so we will have all this fall color from now all the way through
gosh i guess when we close in november because pansies and violas are a fall winter very early
spring crop for us in north carolina here in the south we plant these now and we will have them
throughout the entire growing season i know that's very different from some of you who are in colder
climates but we also picked up some really fun cute little snapdragons snapdragons will bring
some height and some interest if you want to put them either in the you know in the landscape or in
a container in fact i grabbed i've already grabbed mine because so i grabbed a couple of these really
the white ones with the really soft yellow throat i grabbed some of those i have a little hay rack
that is on the front of the garden shed so i am going to use those as kind of my thriller
and then we have of course just gorgeous pansies these are like matrix yellow which is
just that classic pure yellow bloom on it and i was telling in yesterday's video that if
you're looking to support your pollinators yellow is like the number one color for
the bees and so we just had a little bee over here and then a minute ago i was over by the
biolas and there were honeybees already on these so yellow is a great color if you want to go
and mix this is the majestic giants so they will be nice big huge blooms on them it is a mixed
variety so you can just plant them and get just a rainbow of color in your yard which is really nice
and then of course we have colossus white down here which is a gorgeous one because it has
basically it's almost all solid white but it has just that little bit of that yellow throat in it
of course mixing all these together or if you just have a theme and you want to go by color of
course you can do that and then the majestic giant blotch people really like the ones with the blotch
that dark center it's called the blotch so there's a whole series of those so we just
picked up some yellows and then this is such a really fun thriller filler for your containers
and your landscape this is ms america and this is a mustard it is full sun it did great for us last
year we had brought it in our customers grabbed it up like crazy it will stay nice and green burgundy
all winter long and go straight into spring and we'll get some nice height to it it is a mustard
so you can really like you can eat it so you could pull it off and eat it if you wanted to
but it's a great ornamental i grabbed two of these i'm going to use them kind of as my
thriller filler in the western urns on the patio so ms america is a fantastic one and these are
nice good sized pots right this is not a four inch or a little you know six pack so you're going to
start out with a nice size plant and look how full that is really nice and just like all your other
cool weather crops they're going to continuously kind of have older leaves on them on the bottom
and that's okay you can just go in and you just take those old leaves off
because they're constantly producing new leaves so if you see some that are on the outer edge
don't worry about it just pinch them off and you you'll have gorgeous you know foliage all season
long that just keeps on producing so miss america is a great option we do still have
um coleus so these coleuses will do great all the way through fall until we get a hard freeze and
probably about old november or so really nice color on them does great especially like this
wicked hot wicked hot will be either orange or red depending on your sun conditions really fun
yeah so coleus is a great addition as well and then we brought some down as far as
your perennials we've got the sombrero yellow improved that i love and adore i mean look at
that echinacea it is just covered in flowers and these really like the full sun it says full sun to
part shade and they like it dry so you want to put them in a spot that is not constantly damp
they don't like that all right we've got angelonas of course um we're getting this is not the final
setup as far as like you know decoration for the fountain but it is doing really well we've got
the eucharist of course around here people have already started throwing some coins in
the fountain so that's lots of fun and then mums mums mums they are cracking some color
this is a oh gosh this is purple padre cerise and it is just showing some color there in the center
these mums are huge they are in 10 inch terracotta pots so you can take them just like this
and put them directly onto your porch or your deck or wherever it is that you want to have them so we
do that on purpose so that you don't have to worry about like repotting them or anything like that
we've got some yellow here that's cracking color the mums we have will go in a um a staggered so
we'll have the early bloomers mid and late blooms so we are growing our own mums and they are huge
and gorgeous we've got the orange right now is going to be the first ones that are showing some
color but that's the great thing about these mums is all you have to do is keep them watered that's
all you got to do you don't need to fertilize them you don't need to repot them just put them in a
sunny to part shade conditions and just give them water and they will be very happy
so lots of fun here now let's talk about violas violas probably are
my preferred plant as far as pansies and violas violas have smaller flowers on them but there's
more blooms per plant and they do a better job of producing flowers throughout the winter months
the pansies will take a break when it gets really cold violas go longer and they really do make a
big impact even though they have smaller blooms because there's so many of them just like this
this is that color max clear yellow this is where i saw the honeybee feasting so these violas are
gorgeous if you want a bi-color then here we have the color max yellow jump up which is beautiful
yellow with purple so i grabbed a couple of these for me in fact this is what i'm going to pair
those snapdragons with so it gives you kind of an idea and when you're doing your pansies and violas
they need the sun so even in the wintertime they need those sunny conditions i would say a minimum
of five hours i've tried to put these sweet babies in my hay racks along our kitchen windows
and in the winter time they just do not get enough sun so they just don't do really well so this is
definitely going to be a sunny spot really pretty soft yellow is the color max lemon splash really
a softer yellow so if the clear yellow is too bold for you then this lemon splash is a very nice soft
yellow moving on down to these are pennies penny violets pretty purples and then look at this the
color max beacon rose this is one that yesterday grayson convinced me he was like jenny you need
these they're beautiful with the lemon splash so that's what i'm going to put in the westin urns
on the um the patio area then we have an orange these are a little bit delayed within a week they
will be nice and full and then the penny white blotch so it's a nice soft kind of a creamy white
that has a really pretty come here and share them has a really pretty um purple
throat with a yellow eye so nice and soft really really pretty colors in there for sure
okay let's come back we're going to walk our way this way because we do have lemon coral be
a perennial for us it is makes great in containers of the landscape it would be a nice little spiller
and then we have got a little bit more of the kale in the cabbage this is peacock white this is
a kale so this will be a nice different interest completely different color than the miss america
so nice upright and then we've got three different colors of that curly kale that's more flat and
give you those colors so this is the rose which will have a pink center and once the temperatures
really start to drop that color is going to come out right now it may not be the easiest to tell
them apart but we need those cool nights to really color them up so there is rose there is white and
then there is red this is glamour red so that will give you a whole nice new interest look to
your containers or your landscape as well now what we want to do is show you because jerry and i were
talking um we were like what is it what plants here in mid-september are still just like cranking
out the color for us in north carolina well one of them is our summer-riftic hibiscus so if you have
them where they get lots of water then they just seem to continue to just produce flowers on and on
here at the nursery these are not on irrigation but they do get water run off from when we water
the nursery plants they have just been cranking out the flowers like insane and then at the house
i have the new violet crush i'm telling you it's been at least two months and those things are just
cranking out the colors for sure while we're going over there if you like white mums we have
got a couple in a three gallon container there are three plants in here and they are huge so if you
like white mums these are limited come on out to the nursery and grab some for sure so more things
that are giving us fall color um your sedums are coming into play so right here we have the
coral jade so look at that these are great for those areas that are neglected that they don't
like fertilizer they don't like a lot of water you just want to leave them alone a great perennial so
that is doing really well this time of year and then look at these lantanas are these
not stunning especially the orange the orange is what grabs my eye right away these are wonderful
for our fall containers in the south because our temperatures are still cranking they are still hot
if you take this lantana i mean look at that that is a beautiful plant so we have got these lantanas
and um if you can get them in the ground and get them established before the cold hits there is a
possibility i'm not saying it definite but there is a possibility that it could come back next year
this is the luscious marmalade and that marmalade is just a beautiful orange color clemson orange
doing great and then one of our favorites for this year especially is the citron citron is brand new
this is what we have look they're even starting to root to the to the gravel citron is a very nice
soft yellow we have it in mass in our backyard gorgeous color beautiful next year i'm going
to pull this up a little bit closer to the patio and put it in the patio area as well
then there is the red so we've got the red also as well but it is definitely
a perfect we're entering into that perfect season of planning and landscaping your gardens
so if you need some help go visit your local garden center come to creekside nursery if you
are wanting to help for us to help you design your landscape we do ask that you do make an
appointment because it's really kind of hard to give you the time that you need when we're
really really busy and so if you know that you're coming to creekside and you have a landscape plan
please don't just go hey i need you to spend the next two hours with me planning a landscape
we may not be able to do it at that moment so if you can just shoot us a message through whatever
social media outlet you're watching us on then we can schedule a time that way we can really devote
our full attention to you and help you plan your landscape but now is go time especially for your
perennials your trees and your shrubs if you're looking to like tear up some areas or create new
areas now is the perfect time to do that we've got some really fun projects one in particular
that's going to be a massive one that is coming up so we will take you along for that ride for
um it's going to be an ongoing project for a while because it is a huge project but
i'm really excited about it so you'll stay tuned for that that's a nice little teaser
but creekside is open wednesday through saturday 9 a.m to 2 p.m our final day for the season will
be saturday november the 19th so we will close right before thanksgiving we would love to see
you here if you're passing on through just come see us if you want those unique stone orders make
sure you do orders at gardeningwithcreekside.com and as always we so appreciate you thank you for
all your love and support y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends