Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today is a gorgeous October day here in North
Carolina fall is here and it's glorious the weather is fantastic the leaves are falling
the trees are changing it's a great day to be outside it is also going to be a fun day
to do a little informal Garden Tour here in the back and then I'm very excited because
we're going to go to the back patio and we're going to pull out all of the annuals
so exciting for me it is just almost as fun to pull the annuals out in
um you know fall as it is to put them in because for me that means we're going into
a season of rest and I do enjoy a season of rest a bit so we're going to pull those out
but as we walk our way around I want to give you an update a little garden tour and show you some
of the really fun plants that are looking great here in you know in the North Carolina Gardens
in mid-october so give you a little reference as to where we are we are here on the pathway
from the driveway walking around and then the patio is just around the corner can we just
talk about though this container right here I mean deer Heavens you know that I preached to you about
planting your containers not just for the season that you're currently in but for Seasons that
you will be going into and thinking ahead this is one of the unique stone pieces very simple
I think this is like the doppio uh Bowl I'd have to look back and look all I have in it
is a you well there's multiple plants but there's a euchara and then there's grasses
and these are just absolutely stunning showing off their fall color like you would not believe
and of course I could not remember exactly what they are but they are just beautiful plants so I
always teach you to stick your tags in your plant and your Planters so here we go we have a Carex
this is the orange sedge and then the euchara this is Southern Comfort beautiful colors though
of course you can see that the grass is taking on that beautiful orange Hue to it the Southern
Comfort has massive I mean massive leaves on it and just beautiful kind of a coppery yellow
green colors and these both will be perennials for us the the Carex is going to be Hardy in
zones six to nine and the euchara is going to be Hardy in zones I'm looking at the tag right here
four to nine so just gorgeous plants planted it late summer and not on irrigation it's just
when it rains or water it doing great as are for me what I see what pops out for me is this color
are these rockapuco impatients from proven Winters these are annuals and so we're going to
get a freeze in a couple of days hence why we're going to be pulling out the annuals in the back
patio but man look at that look how beautiful these plants are still doing considering they
have not been fertilized in forever and I've got three of those plants that just go all the
way down they are just doing great as is bug bat remember bug bat is one of the plants that these
are pitcher plants that Walters Gardens sent us put it in a little unique stone container and
look how happy this thing is doing fantastic and then as we Mosey our way on down here there's just
things everywhere that I want to show you this is the bug bat that is in the ground there's
three clumps here spreading like crazy and then behind sweet little gecko is Conversation Piece
and I think I was talking to Kata once this gets more established next year it'll really
take off but bug bat has done just phenomenal I was looking and I have a sweet Japanese Toad Lily
that is blooming um Japanese toad lilies are a great perennial very cold hardy and they bloom
in the fall look at that sweet little flower on this it will spread by rhizomes it's not going to
be invasive kind of a park shade situation doing you know doing well considering I just put it in
here for the first time this year later on in the season so super excited about that to see that
really fun little discovery those are just some of the things that are just really rocking out
right now here on this side of the forest pansy bed remember this will be a combination of shade
and Sun doing well the if you can see up above me that the forest pansy is definitely losing its
leaves a lot thinner canopy and then if you hear me crunching that is just the leaves underneath
my feet once all the leaves fall we are going to be getting as far as like clean up in this bed
leaves fall and we're going to get a couple of nights in the cut in the next day or so of a 30
degree night 32-34 that is really what is like propelling me to get these annuals out because
for me it's easier to get these kind of annuals out before they get really soft and smushy so the
freeze is coming they're not going to last so I'm just going to go ahead and take them out but yeah
so once we have the freeze and all the leaves fall then we'll come in here and do the final cleanup
but I'm going to let this bed kind of you know go to sleep on its own and then come in here one time
and clean everything up but we have also got some gorgeous color right next door with these shrubs
um so whereas the bed with the Forex pansy is can be very shaded this is going to be full
full sun and gorgeous color in here look at this scentlandia it is just rocking out some gorgeous
color right now beautiful nice burgundy leaves so pretty very upright habit on it there are
three of them in here and we've got the obviously the one two and the three the one in the middle
is showing the most color then we have it Gatsby gal Behind These that are nice coppery colors on
their leaves she is turning quite nicely of course those flower heads have it dried up but look back
here so I have the Limelight primes all the way in the back my older blooms like I've told you before
they basically will be Brown if you trim it or if you cut some or you get new growth look beautiful
moldy rose color so when I'm thinking that I'm going to do next year is to make sure that I am
kind of trimming on my primes my limelights those kinds of you know panicle hydrangeas in the season
so that way they'll flush out New Growth later on when the real heat you know is gone cooler
temperatures and that way maybe they'll turn a little bit more of the rosy color so that's what
I'm going to try next year for sure um but yeah we're going to Mosey our way on down and going
to go through the path and end up over here at the patio and let me show you what we're going
to clean up there all right coming around to the patio you will see that we've got a good good bit
of annuals still in here well all of them really that are in the beds so what I have in the beds
is the cerveza and lime right here if you've never done cerveza and lime it is a fantastic fantastic
I was trying to say plec tranthus all at the same time it is a type of electron this it has really
kind of like waxy thick leaves oh my gosh though y'all when you rub it and you smell your fingers
it smells just like lime I love this plant now I do not love where I placed it this year I have
too much green on green so I'm going to do that completely different next year I definitely will
be using the cerveza in Lime just not here it was kind of a last minute Edition didn't really think
that whole thing through design flaw on my mistake so those sweet things are going to come out and
then we also have the um supertunia mini Vista weights that are going to come out the senorita
Blanca cleome is going to come out there's only three plants in here and they are going nuts they
are completely covering up my gardenia I need my gardenia to be able to breathe and there is
a camellia under there and that Camellia is covered in buds so these sweet things have
got to go and the sun patient's compact white so all of the annuals are going to come out of
here we're going to clean that up make it look nice and neat and tidy I did this the other day
I did not film it I just wanted to Garden for the sake of gardening and not be not be on video just
being honest with you folks um cleaned up all of the diamond snow euphorbia then I laid some fresh
compost down went ahead and pruned back the blue chiffon Rosa Sharon just to limit up a little bit
this is not the final pruning but it just needed to limb it up a little bit but look how neat and
tidy that looks oh so much better and then deck boxes all the plants are gone they are out of
here I did have some pollinators that worked very happy with me but I gave them directions to the
other salvias that are just 10 feet away and they obliged and then I went ahead and cleaned out the
um the deck boxes because it really needed to have uh it dried out and you can see we've got
some looks like some water damage right here on the boards even though this was treated lumber it
looks like it got too wet so we might have to do a little bit of repairs this winter I will
have my dad who is the woodworker take a look at that but you can see we have the brown tubing in
there that is the irrigation so we're just going to leave that alone that'll stay in here and then
all winter yes I am going to leave this completely empty all winter long is that going to bother me
that this is empty no it sure is not it is going to be just fine again I embrace fall winter
especially winter right winter as a time of rest I just Garden my heart out for so many months really
gosh nine ten months out of the year I enjoy that season of rest where I don't have to feel
obligated to be outside taking care of plants all the time they just want to be able to survive on
their own speaking though of surviving on their own and looking gorgeous as they do it is the
violas and the Ms America mustard like look at that isn't it beautiful obviously those
are going to stay they will be very happy all winter long so what I'm going to do right now
is just real simple Jenny is going to get her garden cart got my gloves and I am just going
to come through there both sides of these beds and pull out those annuals and just
clean this area up get the blower blow out all my debris and then we'll meet back here
so this is just going to be a fun moment of just deconstruction instead of construction
some days you just need that right you just need to come in here and feel the need to rip stuff out
so I know a lot of you do not like snakes understandably so but remember not all snakes
are venomous and and mean so here we found a very sweet little snake and I'm afraid if I opened up
my hand he's going to run out a little little garden snake right here completely harmless
actually is your friend in the garden helps get the critters out that we do not want in
our garden snails slugs those kinds of things so I am just going to move him down to an area
where I won't disturb him and he won't disturb me
my friends so all of the annuals have been pulled out of these beds it is definitely a lot cleaner
looking it is not the final prep for these beds for this season we'll get to more of that in
a minute but for now I feel like my boxwoods and my Camellias and my roses can like breathe
they've got room to spread their branches and uh yeah get some Breathing Room those annuals have
gotten huge so you can see right here I have a massive wagon full of green debris that I will go
put in kind of the area we don't technically compost because I don't do it technically right
we just allow things to Decay naturally and then it just kind of go back to the Earth so you can
see massive cart there but over here so what we have if you're not familiar with the plants that
we have in this these beds we have the Sprinter box Woods throughout both of these beds they have
grown really well and are doing really nicely here and then on this side I have of course the
sprinters then this is a white she she Camellia it is a sasanqua it is a full sun Camellia it
is one of the most petite Camellias and you can see that it is covered in buds so it will not
be long before these sweet things will be full of gorgeous double white blooms so that's just what's
in this bed is the sprinters and then the white shishis and then on each side of the steps right
here we have the upright gardenias from Southern Living I want to say they're Diamond Spire if I'm
wrong I'll put the I'll put the names up there for you but it is an upright gardenia really
nice deep dark glossy green leaves I mean look it looks like you've taken like Leaf shine and
sprayed the whole plant but of course I haven't and they're just more like little thumb print
leaves on it not the traditional what you think of a gardenia where they're long skinny they're
little fat ones they do do flowers of course and let's see I know I'm finding the sun here today
but it is a single Bloom we have one sweet one that is a late bloomer and so she is blooming
smells delicious and then come in here on this nice big wall we have three different
of the David Alston roses all in that kind of medium pink flower color I would say so these
will all get to be about five to six feet tall this is the only one that has been there for a
consecutive year so that is why there's such a height difference on these plants this one
was brand new planted as a bare root in March I believe it was and then this sweet thing was
in a different spot and got moved so next year they should all be roughly about the same size
and then of course there are the boxwoods between the Roses so we have those two and then the white
chiffon Rose of Sharon it has just grown by Leaps and Bounds this year and I've had to prune it back
because it was really kind of overtaking this Rose and I wasn't getting enough Sun so I think
what I'm going to do is train it up to be a little bit more like a a standard form kind
of like a crepe myrtle type thing but I will have to definitely keep this one in check because it
likes its spot and is getting really really big so now what I am going to do is go get the blower
and some earplugs get the debris tossed into our our little wooded section that we use and then
get the blower and get all of this cleaned up and then the project will be done for today so
excited because we're going out to dinner with some of our dear sweet friends and we're taking
them to one of our favorite restaurants and it's in the mountains and the foliage right now is at
Peak in the North Carolina Mountains so we are super excited to have a fun night away and uh
yeah it's gonna be a lot of fun so I want to hurry up and get this done so I can go get a
shower so I can be presentable for dinner tonight so yeah get the blower and get rid of this debris
all right my friends today's project is complete it feels great to have this checked off my list
that way when we hit 30 degrees in a couple of days I don't have to worry about pulling any of
these yucky annuals out because there's already been taken care of so have fun out in your garden
get out there get a little project done makes you feel better and as always thanks so much
for going with Creekside y'all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends