Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we have a very fun little project I am
going to be planting two different kinds of shrubs that are a little bit on the extremes
of my growing zone if you want to remember we are North Carolina a Zone 7B I am going
to be planting two elderberries and a camellia all in the same flower bed so the elderberries
we may be a little too warm for it and the Camellia we may be a little too cold for it
I'm all about experimenting that is gardening right it is just try it because you may never
know you may have fantastic results so we're going to do that today we also you might hear some hum
in the background there is a lot of stuff going on today as always here at the nursery so Josh and
Roman are getting some aeration and some grass seed out so let's see if we can flip it around
here so that you can see I am down in the front field that is where we're going to be planting
and let's see maybe you can see Roman is in the yard and then Josh is running back and forth with
the aerator and it has the cedar on the front Roman is putting out some fertilizer so you
will probably hear that all going on and then I don't know if you can see that little pocket
of yellow up there those are the violas and they are just so happy and so cheery and then I do have
my main man my name's squeeze oh dear he is helping me um do some filming today so where are
we going to plant these beautiful new shrubs well I'm so glad you asked let me tell you so if you
will remember uh not too terribly long ago maybe a month or so ago we were here and we planted a
tough stuff hydrangea in this unique stone urn so we are going to be planting these shrubs
right here along to the left of that now I know you're going to tell me something I know tough
stuff's a little dry we have been in some major drought she has been well watered she'll bounce
back here in just a second but what we're going to do is I have two of the lemony lace elderberries
from premium winners if you remember that video where we've talked about how Spring Meadows sent
us some great shrubs so we're going to put the two elderberries here I was just telling Jerry I need
something with a big kind of a pop of color so these are just gorgeous obviously lemony
lace has a really heavily dissected leaf on it beautiful lime green chartreuse color to it and
these will get some nice size they can get four to seven feet tall and wide I'm thinking because
we are on the borderline of being a little too warm it may be on the smaller side I don't know
it's going to be a whole experiment so I have spaced them yeah four feet apart from each other
so they're going to go basically here of course I will use my biotone and I have some land and
sea we'll use my handy dandy power planter auger to get those in and then I am so excited about
this plant this is a camellia believe it or not this is not your typical Camellia this is called
snowbell's I got this back in the early spring with my mom when we went to go visit Camellia
forest and Camellia Forest is a nursery here in North Carolina that specializes in camellias
it was not a good thing and the fact of we took my suburban and two gardeners who love Camellias
and had decided that we did more Camellias in our life let's just say that Suburban was loaded with
camellias snow Bells is a really fun one it is a handle eye Camellia so it's not it's a sanqua it's
not a Japonica completely different than what we are used to it's really fun because it has almost
a weeping effect to it you can see where the Arches you know the limbs are arching out and it
has very very small leaves on it look at that very small and then the new leaves are almost kind of a
um a burgundy let's see I was looking at some earlier they have a little bit of a reddish Hue
to them if you can kind of see that a little bit hopefully the camera will pick that up
but this is a really fun Camellia because it will bloom in late winter into early spring
and the blooms start out a very soft pink and then turn to White not your typical Bloom on a camellia
that you're thinking of there will be smaller but they will be mass in numbers so it will be covered
it was actually blooming when we bought it because otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed it but
it was just gorgeous and the blooms that started the base of the stem and then work their way up
gorgeous gorgeous plant super excited about this we are going to be a little bit more on the zone
of being our Winters being too cold so I'll have to kind of pay attention it is going to be down
here on the creek Bank underneath these trees so hopefully it will be nice and protected but this
is going to be really fun cannot wait to get these three shrubs in the ground because it's
going to make a huge difference in these beds as we are going to develop these beds along the creek
this winter we want to come down and extend this is going to be a long-term project but it's just
a great way to continue to extend the flower bed because last year remember we installed all of the
limelights and the Carolina Cypress and Carolina Sapphire sorry and then the butterfly bushes and
everything so we're just bringing it all down we are on the outer rims I don't know if you can see
it with the sky but the clouds can you see that line of where the clouds are and then the blue sky
those are the remnants or rather the not the remnants the outer bands of hurricane Inn so
today is um Wednesday that we're filming this Ian is expected to hit us as far as like some wind
and rain starting Thursday night Friday so it has just now started I don't even know this has made
landfall in Florida but that's the thing about hurricanes they're massive and they just extend
just you know hundreds of miles so we're already starting to see the cloud cover from that but
while hurricanes are awful and they are scary we all live through Hugo by Jerry and I live
through Hugo so we know what a hurricane is like and it's awful and so we are praying for those
people who are in the path of this hurricane for us we don't think it's going to be so bad
but we're going to get probably wind and rain the rain will be good I'm just hoping we can get
some gentle rain and not traditional hurricane rain that we are very very dry so it's actually
a good time to get these in the ground so that way when the rains do come that it'll get nice
and settled in because this is not on irrigation so I feel like I've talked too much we're going
to get these sweet things in the ground it's going to make a huge transformation right here
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my friends so all three of these shrubs have found their way into their new home nice and snug I will
tell you that again I think I said this earlier we have not had any significant rain in quite
a while and yeah even with the power planter augging those holes was quite a challenge Mr
mussels had to step in a couple of times and help me out but they are done so let's talk about why I
chose to plant these three shrubs in this specific location because we didn't talk about that earlier
the elderberries are their hardiness zones is like from four to a seven we are a seven b but
they are considered like a full sun plant if I were to put them in like my True full sun they
would be fried in like five minutes so this area will get that five to six hours of great morning
sun so it will fulfill that full sun requirement but then when the sun begins to move behind the
trees they will be nice and shaded so they will get a break from that hot hot afternoon sun
therefore that is why I think this is going to be the best location for them because if
they're going to succeed in our you know North Carolina hot humid Zone 7B they're going to have
to have a break from our hot afternoon sun that is why we put them here now on the flip side why
did I put the Camellia here well we are on the zone for the Camellia being a little too cold
because it's from like a Zone 7B to the 10B I believe so we are right on that line and this
Camellia is not going to be a full sun Camellia it is a filtered Sun to like part sun part shade
area again it will get great morning sun but it gets a break from the hot afternoon sun
we raise those Camellias up because they like really well draining soil so you may have noticed
that I was adding some the Aged pine bark finds to the hole so that way it drains really well
this is right along the creek bank and so if we get huge Gully washers the water does run here but
it doesn't sit it is very well draining the sand the soil here is actually pretty Sandy which is
rare for us and so she is going to do really well right here top dress top dressed everybody with a
little bit of land and Seed compost that great you know it's got slowly amending your soil to
bring in those good nutrients that good bacteria all of that good healthy ecosystem that we want
for Our Roots we did have to remove a dead tree here my mom and dad came down the other day and
helped me well they did it they were helping me by getting the tree out of here and so there was one
that because we knew we were going to plant these plants here and it made sense to cut
the tree down before we put the plants in so they got that done for me we do have an oak tree right
here that has some limbs that are really kind of overreaching I may wait and see what it looks like
in the you know spring and the summer if they're not getting enough Sun we can easily limb those
tree branches off but you when you're looking at your sun conditions just keep in mind that
your winter sun which is what I am going into is very different than your summer sun we are
going to be most concerned here with our summer sun because that's really really hot but super
excited to watch all these sweet things grow and develop the snow Bells Camellia the lemonade Lace
Elderberry they're all going to bring lots of fun and interest and texture to this place and of
course we will continue to add some plants in here and there and as we move our way down we'll have
some more fun adding more shrubs and perennials in this space so as always we so appreciate you
thank you for growing Creekside y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends
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