Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today I'm going to give you a couple of
updates on two projects that we have been working on first of all I think you can see behind me
we are here at the production greenhouse that has its new concrete floor poured so I wanted to give
you an update on that and then we are going to go head over to see Jerry finish up the well working
at Janice's he was just there with you a couple of days ago and we're going to see the plants that he
has planted they are putting some mulch down today so we're going to head over there in just a minute
so first Brynna and I wanted to show you the new greenhouse floor Brynna of course is more
interested in smelling the rocks and all the smells from the fellas being here but here we go
is the beautiful floor here at the greenhouse it's really hard to tell
but there is a slope towards the center so that all the water will trickle down the center and
will come out the front and then drain properly from the greenhouse so let's just go on in
come on b yes he goes all right so you can tell what an absolute
massive difference that this concrete floor has made it is just so clean it has a lovely
look to it so what we're talking about as far as the slope to the floor if you will i got a little
puppy giving me kisses notice that the concrete does not go all the way up to the hat base like it
did in the production um excuse me the greenhouse down at the nursery because it is sloping away and
the grade on this greenhouse was completely different than the grade down at the nursery
so here we go just a beautiful nice clean look to it again it's just going to be amazing to put
plants on here you don't have to worry about them tipping over because they're unbalanced
just nice and smooth so you can see what they did right here
is they went ahead and kind of boxed out where jerry had the irrigation that way don't have
to worry about putting concrete around those pipes you can see here from that electrical panel outlet
rather that that is the conduit that goes up to that that is what jerry and andrew were working on
and so that electrical line is just now under the concrete easy peasy and then it comes up this wall
purling right here and then goes back to the box
if you remember jerry and andrew had to take the doors off of the greenhouse
because of the grade coming up so before the concrete was poured the doors sat flush
with the gravel and you can see what a really nice lip of concrete we have so that was the amount of
grade that the concrete brought the floor up when they come back jerry will have to move the header
up that that amount i don't know if that's what six inches raise that up and then rehang the doors
when we did the concrete floor in the greenhouse at the nursery we had a lot of people asking why
we didn't put rebar in the floor and more i guess a support system in the concrete floor
you have to remember we are in north carolina we do not have extreme freeze fall periods so that is
one reason so our weather is more conducive two both of these pads were poured on already solid
really thick gravel pads so there is not going to be any kind of settling with this concrete
these pads have been here they are really well established like i said there is a ton of gravel
underneath them so the stability factor we don't have to worry about and then two the payload a
lot of times when you're using rebar you're using it to reinforce something that's going to hold a
lot of a lot of weight a lot of it's going to be a structure this is going to have plants on it so
we don't need that massive reinforcement of the floor so that in a nutshell is why we do not have
rebar in these floors because for our application and where we are we just simply don't need them
easy peasy so yeah so now we are going to go head over to check out jerry heather he's got
some workers with him heather's there with him putting out some mulch so it's just about a
five minute drive from the nursery so let's go check out jerry and see how he is doing
so
all right friends brenda and i made it to janice's house and jerry is filming me right now so we are
standing on the corner of the house where all the rip out took place but before we go there let's
go just over just a little bit because if you remember in the video when jerry was here with you
he was talking about here in front of this window there was i don't remember now it was a maple some
sort of maple and they decided to go ahead and put a white by the gate camellia in there and
janice was just at outside and she said how much she loved it so the camellia of course will be
a nice beautiful evergreen it has those big huge pure white blooms on it if they choose to keep it
trellis they can or they could let it go into like a standard form but i think they're going to keep
it trellised and then these plants were already here of course the nice established encore azaleas
beautiful color um spring summer and fall these are they're a pink one let's see uh
autumn twist i think i think it's autumn twist so the twist has a lots of different colors in
it still in that pink family but you can get some different um shades of pink and different
blooms on it so then coming around we've got the pugster butterfly bushes down on the front
janice loves color and she loves a lot of interest a lot of diversity but nice big bold pops of color
i told her i said pretty much after we met i now speak janice so we understand completely the looks
that she likes and the type of planting that she likes so these punctures will work really well and
then this is spruce so jerry had told you that when he took out the huge hollies that a norway
spruce was going to go on this front corner and then there's another one on the other back corner
just a beautiful different completely different texture and shape than those hollies it'll be a
more manageable size they're not going to have to prune it it can just go and be gorgeous and
of course like she just said it will look amazing with christmas lights on it during the christmas
season some desert plains grasses are plopped down through here of course we left the front this is
their access to their crawl space underneath their house so we left that open down in the front of
the beds are the fire chief arborvities come on brenda she's chewing on mulch right now trying to
motivate her to walk here we go so we've got some fire chiefs down in the front now you may look
and say oh my gosh jenny they're brown they're dying no arborvitaes will take on that beautiful
rich color with the cool weather so kind of that autumn
reddish brown burgundy look i know what color you really want to say that is
so their tips get that color and then if you can see down inside well brennan wanted to see too
okay too much of a shadow um but down deep inside is a nice real pretty green and then
as the season changes that green will come back and the whole shrub will turn that nice green
some of the tips will just the tippy tips of them will stay that pretty color but a lot of
neat interest nice mounded habit don't really have to worry about
pruning these at all and then of course we have some of the bold lore pendulum in here
because those will get a nice nice shape to them nice and big so we've got some back here
in the very very back to give some height to help hide some of those electrical panels or the sweet
talker viburnums so those sweet talkers are fantastic again because they are evergreen
they'll get like what eight feet tall i believe it is early spring bloomer smells fantastic all
the good things also to help disguise that panel is a nice tea olive so this is a nice
big tl this is what a 15 gallon a 15 gallon tea olive nice and thick it has the blooms on it
beautiful smell janice already has tea olives on the other side that we planted gosh i don't know
two years ago because they have a beautiful back porch patio area that they spend a lot of time
on with the grandkids so they're going to get beautiful smells and scents from that and then
of course we've got some yin and yang down here in the front again a lot of this gosh everything
except for the desert plains grass is an evergreen so she's going to have year-round actual color
and structure throughout you know the four seasons of the year and then here is that other
well this is what happens when you have a puppy who's all tangled up in her leash you can't put
it over your nose we're still working on leash training there we go all right i'm not going
to get in the mud but we have that other norway spruce right there now this little bit of a mud
pit that we have right now because we are just now coming out of three four days worth of rain
this is where they are going to put the seeding wall a low seeding wall decorative gravel will
be on the ground and then a fire pit very very similar to what we have in our backyard so i
believe jerry said that the um the seating wall of course will be an arch and will be basically
not exactly but kind of the lines of where the grass is fire pit they can have chairs out here
like i said they've got a fantastic back porch patio area that they spend a lot of time on they
are blessed with lots of little grandbabies so with the grandkids they've got their toys out here
beautiful rocking chair even in the summertime they can be out here and be nice and cool because
it's in the shade so that is an area that they have come on bring your stick yeah it's your girl
um now they did go ahead jerry and andrew when they were here ripped out this area
and they had it was what azalea's in here it was an old azalea was in here and so what they did is
because they had this patio area they brought the plant levels down low so in the very back you have
proven winter's gym box which is again is a very similar inhabit and use of like a boxwood but it's
a different plant right so the gym boxes are back there for that evergreen color and then in front
are these the aribas no no oh okay so we have we bit giddy hydrangea again another proven winners
um really a nice petite hydrangea so this like i said this whole little hedge is gonna be nice
and low they can see out it won't matter you know the grandkids can you know because they're going
to run through here and they'll be fine so great hydrangea of course our hydrangeas are getting
a little confused with all this weather we're having and trying to put out some new growth
so there we go on that lots of beautiful color this is an area that we were talking about um just
a minute ago that i was telling you that we did a couple of years ago so look at her tea olives
back here gorgeous nice and big and then these are dwarf crepe myrtles so even for us in the south
this is considered a dwarf one this is about its maximum height right here
gorgeous color but it's nice to fill in that nice big wall so do we want to walk around
some other areas no because i think i've showed you the pictures when we did jerry's video
if you didn't see that video i'll have it in the video description so check that out
but janice does an amazing job with her color and landscape in the spring and summer
uses tons of annuals lots of petunias big pops of color it's absolutely gorgeous um so yeah i think
brenna and i are gonna head home it's probably about her nap time i tell you these puppies are
just like toddlers if you don't give them a nap man they get cranky and so we are gonna take her
home and get her to take a nap so that she will be more pleasant for the rest of the day but
as always thank you so much for agreeing with creekside you all have a great day and we will
be back here to give you more updates as always have a great day see you next time bye friends