hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today we are
here for our weekly nursery update we are here on the
outdoor shopping area right here at the pergola it is an
absolutely glorious september day we're starting to hit towards the end of
september it feels very much like fall here but i'm not going to jinx it
because you know next week it could be 95 here
in north carolina but right now we are loving life clear blue skies gorgeous
weather cool temperatures got my coat on now it's fantastic so
fall as we have always been talking about here the last couple of weeks is
the perfect time to be planting working in your garden contrary to what a lot of
people think spring is not the absolute best time to
plant especially your perennials and your shrubs and trees
now is why is fall the best time to plant
well you are putting in the perennials the shrubs
and the trees plenty of early enough before
a freeze hits now for us in the south it's not that big of a deal because we
don't even in december and january don't have
massively cold temperatures unlike our friends who are a lot further
north than us than like in michigan right so here in
the south we are unique and blessed that we can plant almost year round okay
so we want our roots to get really well
established so the fall and winter is a great time because
the plant is naturally putting its energy
and all of its focus into growing its roots not so much the foliage on top
and that's what we really want with our trees perennials and shrubs is to have a
great root system plus it's raining more
consistently you're not going to have to water them
so it's less work on you fast forward to late spring into early summer when
the high temperatures hit you've got a great root system those
plants are happy they are well established and
they're not going to require as much work from you so
this is the time to get out in your garden and to be
making improvements or changes so speaking of right here
in this sea of yellow and lime green are the
sunshine ligustrums from southern living plant collection
i mean if you've been around creekside for five hot seconds then you know how
much we love this shrub it is hardy in zones six
through ten it does love the full full sun
the more sun you get the brighter the color is going to be
you can put it in the shade it's just going to go green so
they will get to be about three to six feet tall that six feet is like if you
never were to prune it so we really encourage you to prune it back
at least once a year these are really big
sunshine ligustrums i mean it's practically a full-size ligustrum so
shrubs gorgeous love the color and over here we have day lilies lots of
day lilies it's a great time to put them in
there is of course the primal scream one of our favorites around here because
it is that gorgeous orange it's like a neon orange it really
does stand out and glow in the garden
extremely nice it is hardy in zones three to nine i
mean hello zone three i don't even know what zone three is is that
is that alaska i have no idea i know that canada there's
canada is like parts of it are only zone five so
anyway it's very cold tolerant and very heat tolerant too
if purple is more your jam noseferatu there we go hoping i'm saying that right
i know it's in reference to a vampire don't watch vampire movies have no clue
again three to nine gorgeous gorgeous colors
and then red those both were proven winners chicago
apache is just an absolute gorgeous red
beautiful beautiful again zone three to nine day lilies
like the sun so remember that keep that in mind
now if you will remember not that long ago this whole area
was filled with fall color it's looking a little empty right now but no fear
jerry and i placed a massive order for more pansies violas trailing pansies
ornamental kale cabbage grasses swiss chard trailing things i mean all
the components that you need to do a fall container or in your
landscape we will have them so that should be here for you local
people they will be here this weekend hopefully
by even thursday they will already be here
so lots of choices these pansies are still
absolutely gorgeous remember pansies prefer
more full sun violas are a little bit more shade tolerant
so if you have a little bit more shade then you can go with the violas
i know in certain areas i'm going to use pansies and other areas i'm going to use
violas so lots of options of course we have
that desert plains grass it's a fantastic thriller component
for your landscape it is in bloom doing gorgeous right now um
i do want to tell you this oh yeah the artemisia look at that that
gorgeous silvery blue foliage just gorgeous
i want you to make a note in your gardening journal for next
spring to use more coleus in your landscape
this is apple brandy from proven winners coleus are fantastic they do love it hot
though so this is why we don't sell coleus right now
because it would be very short-lived for you um
this was planted and well-established before
you know i don't gosh we didn't even plant it that long ago
but it has done really really well but as soon as a frost hits it will
zap it and take it back um you can bring coleus in if you have it in a container
that you can bring inside they can be a house plant but coleus
just brings massive amounts of color and texture to your landscape
without even any flowers so it just brings a whole other dimension
and gorgeousness so there are tons of different types of coleus different
colors so make sure whatever your color scheme
is going to be that you add a coleus to it
um aqua pots are still doing wonderfully the mums now this is not all of our moms
the the vast majority of the mums are still up on the
on the shrub lot because they're on automatic drippers these we have to hand
water and honestly we don't want to hand water
during the week so the ones that are happy up at the moment we're leaving
them up there but look at this
we do not grow wimpy plants here at creekside
this is an orange and it's nice and tight so jerry if he can get in there
i want to talk to you about that so i had a customer
um a follower of ours on facebook and she said
my mum buds are still really tight i'm afraid it's not going to open
now remember these are really tight buds right here
mums bloom at different times you have early bloomers
mid bloomers late bloomers this is definitely not an
early bloomer our early bloomers already have flowers on them
this is like a mid to late bloomer so if you have buds like this keep in mind
it's okay just keep watering it especially when
they're in containers that's the only thing you have to do is
water them and you have to water them every day because if they dry out and
get really dry then they're probably not going to come
back because they're putting their energy
into saving the plant and not so much to blooms so every day
water your mum that's the best tip that i can give you
so they're the red oh look at these reds down here see this is what i'm talking
about this would be more in the early
family see if jerry can zoom in on some of those gorgeous colors
so see this is already cracking color you can tell clearly
what it's going to look like you can tell the color that
deep rich kind of burgundy wine red really pretty so we have reds and
yellows and oranges and whites we do for our local people around
here we do have one oh purple can't forget
the purple um we have found that growing mums
is a lot like growing christmas trees because if one little section kind of
goes wrong it can kind of throw the whole thing off and they can get kind of
wonky so this is our wonky section
and you can tell this it's just how the plants grew and they're just funny
so these are a special so if you have but these are great if you're going to
put them in containers or you're going to put them in the
landscape and nobody's going to see them up close
then this is a great way to go because you still have that big pop of color
but you're not right up and closed on top of it and you can tell that it's a
little got a little funk going on with it it's
just a little odd shape that's all it's all good though so we're going to
come down here to the shrublock right quick
um nope no we're not jerry's directing me over here
still have lots of the espoma soil potting soil
and the land and sea compost so we actually have we brought in brand new
pallets so we have got plenty of the organic land and sea
gourmet compost it's a great one because it's got all sorts of different
wonderful components in it it's got like you see that lobster crab
meal it also has the mycorrhizae fungi my cameraman's a
little tall we also have the beautiful bottle
benders so they make a great little
tinkling sound so you can only get these here at creekside
we remember take the pine knots send the pine knots to them and then they do them
so jerry's tallness helped us to uh remind us about the
bottle benders so now i can come down here uh
so much going on i don't even know where to start
um let's see oh let's go over here because we um if you will remember back
july we were potting up all those baby shrubs
so some of them are already ready like these miss mollies so miss molly
butterfly bush from proven winners look at that beautiful raspberry color
on it miss molly will get four to five feet
tall so she's gonna be bigger than the pugsters
but if you're looking for a petite butterfly bush of course we do have
those pugsters look at this bloom like that's my hand and look at that big
this is a pugster amethyst pugster amethyst is a two by
two there's the tag i know y'all love tags
oh that's not amethyst that's pink there you go
this is amethyst look at this look at those so pusters are a petite
bush with a full-sized bloom on it just
really pretty and then come over here one more thing that we brought in or
down rather i let jerry zoom in
on these beautiful guys this is beyond midnight
a blue beard really pretty carioptrus is the technical latin name
this is a full sun perennial shrub deer resistant yay
long blooming hardy end zones five to nine
it's gonna be about two two and a half feet tall um
very high deer resistance so let me show you
for all you tag lovers that is what that is
of course the pollinators love it as well because that that blue color
they are just absolutely drawn to it in fact we've got bumblebees as i'm
talking i see all the bumblebees over here
really really pretty so if you're looking for a unique
um petite sized late blooming plant then go with the bluebeard all
right come on over here we're gonna take a little walk because
i'm most excited about this and
bulbs spring flowering bulbs now is the perfect time of year
to be thinking about springtime and your flowering bulbs
now as always here at creekside you know things just happen and we just have to
go with it so we ordered all of these bulbs and they're going to
be on these gorgeous racks that we could put them on and this
great display well the bulbs came late friday night but there's no racks so we
talked to our friend ron who is just a life saver
for us and ron found out that the racks are not
coming till october the first and that makes no sense so we're going
to create our own little display system for now
i don't even know if these bulbs are going to be here by october 1st because
i have a feeling your is going to snatch them up so let's just go through really
quickly what the deal is with spring flowering
bulbs and what you need to know we are in north carolina zone 7b
any of the zones from eight or higher eight nine ten eleven if you want to
have spring flowering bulbs tulips especially
then you have got to chill your bulbs for ten weeks in the refrigerator so
what does that mean that means that you can take this bag
of white tulip bulbs and you're going to stick it in your refrigerator
for 10 weeks why the refrigerator you are mimicking
winter even us in zone 7b i'm afraid that our winters aren't going
to be cold enough so i go ahead and pre-chill my tulips too
even though technically it's zone 8 and higher we're 7b like zone 8
is 20 minutes away so i go ahead and pre-chill mine
for at least a minimum of 10 weeks you can go more
this again replicates winter they go dormant they store up all their energy
then in about in the middle of middle to the end of february then you
can plant them in the ground in your containers wherever you want
and then they will come up out of dormancy and emerge
so that will ensure you to have beautiful
flowering bulbs so i'm just going to let jerry just kind of pan
through this whole side right here is nothing but tulips
so as you will see on the box they are great cut flowers
and they do great in like the patios some of them are fragrant
there is just a myriad of colors and textures they're gorgeous
depending on the bulb itself will depend on how many plants
how many bulbs are in a bag but you can see
like look at this look at this one oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that one right there
black parrot now that is awesome and then the whispering dream
an amazing parrot i'm telling see see what i mean these are not going to
stay here for very long because y'all are going to snatch them up then
over here on this side is the daffodils
so tons of different ones daffodils you will see on the variety right here
on the box it will tell you deer resistant there are a lot down here
that are deer resistant but they're just some gorgeous ones like
look at this look at sweet ocean such a
neat neat and then chroma color i love this chroma color right there and
then of course however you say that then we have
some specialty bulbs so the allium globemaster
that is a really popular bulb because it's so huge now in that
container let's see if jerry can pan out for one
second this is there's one bulb in the bag because it's so massive it's
a huge one so when you're buying these guys there
is just one in there um but i think that's the only
one where there's only one in there but we have hyacinths in here the um
the muscara the grape hyacinths different ones i'm really excited about
this guy that looks like a lot of fun right here
i mean look at that it's like a little upside down
tulip and then of course this one so neat so all of that to say
if you are local and you are wanting to get some spring flowering bulbs
my cameraman's making faces so something happened i'm just i'm sorry
but you know what i will say this there is always something new
going on new equipment technology can just make us want to lose our minds
sometimes but y'all are always so kind and just grace-filled somebody last week
was like jenny you're doing a great job love your videos we'll say it was a
little the video itself was a little funky well
it was new equipment like it was brand new equipment we're trying to figure it
out so there is a learning curve sometimes
so i would just say thank you for being patient with us
we really do try our absolute best to give you the best
quality of videos possible sometimes things just happen
and life just goes funky but anyway so thank you for your grace and your
patience local people if you want bulbs if you
need fall color come see us thursday friday saturday
nine to three somebody had asked if we were gonna do some change our hours for
the fall we'll see i don't know right now um
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we've had of course germany we've had new zealand
um oh shoot i meant to write this down like all the different places
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it's so much fun to see you know where y'all all are from and how you
tune in so i need to start making a list so that we
can say you know all the different countries but
wherever you are in the world thank you for watching thank you for your love and
support we'll keep on chunking out these videos
for you y'all have a great day see you next time bye friends