Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today I have a fun little project
for you um that I'm gonna share with you rather uh we are going to plant a Japanese maple if you
can see it right there where my finger is it is a b and b 'Fireglow' Japanese maple I am so excited
to plant this while we're at it and since we're back here on this gorgeous spring day I thought
i would give you an update on the perennial bed that we just planted i added some perennials to it
just a couple of weeks ago so they are starting to show some new growth i've got some things
flowering wanted to give you an update on that as we make our way back here to the fire glow
so let me flip the camera around and show you exactly all the fun things that are waking up
from their winter slumber to give you a bit of perspective of where we are we're standing on
our garage pad and of course here we go down to the patio through our little flagstone walkway
over here you will see i have a beautiful collection of camellias that my mama and i um
got at a camellia nursery we will talk about those on another video but they are kind of hanging out
here and then here we go down the path and you can see that i have got some beautiful flocks that
is blooming already this is was put in last year this is not the new addition this year but it is
blooming doing really really well the serendipity that you can see my three little clumps right here
they have put on lots of new growth and they are very happy and in fact i think you can see let's
see if we can focus in here can you see that new growth that is coming on the scent landia they
are starting to show some signs of life for the spring summer season so that is very exciting um
all doing really well here we have the cat's pajamas i was down here looking at my flocks
and the cat's pajamas has got some new growth on it even just a couple of little buds already
things are waking up the daisies are doing really well right there um we're still teaching brenna
not to walk through the flower beds but that's all right and then look at the generous gardener
from david alston remember i have one on each side climbing rose she is covered
in new growth this is a very very happy rose did not care about the 19 degree night at all
flushed out in lots of new growth now what we're going to do today the main goal for today
is to plant this japanese maple that you can see in front of me we had talked about when i planted
the david alston's here in the landscape down all in here um that i have this hole where this
fire glow is and i was thinking what can i put there we just got a shipment of some b and b
trees and of course i had to peruse and see which one might fit here and fire glow was it so what
as far as the placement goes i went ahead because we have this line of the tea olives right so the
sweet osmanthus sweet olive we call them tea olives here i just went through and so i went
and put the fire glow kind of in that same line of the tea olives and to the left you will see
right here we have some encore azaleas and that's kind of hard to see but right there is a
little lime punch we're still trying that to see if it will turn beautiful red for us in the fall
fire glow is going to fit perfectly here the fire glow is a fantastic maple for our region
fire glow japanese maple is really going to do well here i think because one of this major the
major thing is it can take the full sun and it can handle the heat of our north carolina summer so
depending on the japanese maple that you get will have different cold hardness heat hardiness zones
fire glow will do really well for us so that is number one it can handle the heat and humidity
number two the size of it it's really going to do quite well it's going to reach maybe 10 to 15 feet
i'll put i might be saying the specs wrong but 10 to 15 feet or 10 to 12 feet in 15 years japanese
maples are notoriously slow growers this is not going to be like a maple tree that grows rapidly
it is going to be slow so going here and it's more upright it's not really wide again because of the
t olives right here um i'm not worried about the hydrangea that's a little petite hydrangea no big
deal but fire glow obviously gets its name from its absolutely stunning gorgeous color all you
have to do is look at these pictures and you will know and understand the absolute beauty and appeal
of this plant for its foliage and its color so i'm super excited to add this to the landscape
it is going to be a little bit smaller if you're familiar with a blood good maple it is a little
bit smaller than a blood good so i really think it's going to do perfectly here tea olives of
course can be pruned right they respond really well to be improved so in 15 20 years if these
two start competing against each other i will have planned and kept my tea olives at an appropriate
size away from the fire glue again not worried about that in the absolute least bit
we did get them as a b and b so i can and it's not a huge root ball on it so i can manage this one by
myself so we are going to get all the cameras set up get all my tools together and we are going to
get this fire glow into the landscape so i changed the position of the cameras a little bit so you
could get the whole perspective of where we are i'm literally going to to move this fire glow
out of the way i'm going to og my hole using the power planter auger and get her in the ground it's
not going to be too terribly hard um yeah just the hardest part's just going to be moving her because
she is heavy that's the kind of the downside of using a bnb is because it's grown in the native
soil so it's heavy it's not like potting soil so b and b's even though that looks like a small tree
she she weighs pretty good all right so here we go just get my hole dug
do
all right so i got my hole dug i went ahead and put the tree back in the hole
so that way i made sure that my hole is correct i am going to plant this
at soil level because this is a b and b is used to be in the soil i'm going to plant it soil level
or just a little bit high but because it is a bnb and it's wrapped in burlap
b and b just stands for ball and burlap i'm going to cut the twine away and then whatever
burlap that i can cut away i will but because it is a natural product it will degrade over time
so if i don't get all of that out it is not that big of a deal so we're just going to get all this
untwined bread is very curious there we go
i do want to go ahead and show you what this looks like so you can tell that this is the native soil
came from oregon so this was the native soil from that nursery there is a thing of twine going
around the ball of the roots i gave it a little little shake and the whole soil kind of loosened
up so i don't want to do that i don't want to disturb these roots anymore than they already are
so i'm going to leave that alone but i will cut this extra burlap off around it but what's on the
bottom i'm going to leave it because it would be more destructive for the root system for me
to try to get that off um and it will decompose the roots will grow through it it will be fine
all right so i got the extra burlap cut away i'm just gonna lift it over the tree
all right there we go brenda can play with the burlap she'll love that i will straighten her
up in just a minute of course i have my biotone super important because especially with b and b's
they have been dug straight out of their native soil they've obviously had some root
pruning happen and we want them to have a really nice strong root system so because i can't lift
this out of the hole i'm just going to sprinkle my biotone all the way around it will be just fine
basically i'm just going to bring my native soil back up to it and get it in
when we did when i did the roses if you remember i added some great compost the um
we're still in training on how to behave around shrubs and trees and gardening so it is a process
she's only not even six months old yet so we're getting there and no biotone good girl
so bringing all the native soil back up i will straighten her up
if she needs to be straightened so it's kind of hard to tell because
the tree itself has a little bit of the curve to her so i'm looking at my trunk here pressing down
because of the time of year it is
early early spring this fire glow is starting to pop out some new foliage this would be the optimal
time to go ahead and fertilize the tree for it with its yearly dose of slow-release fertilizer
i didn't know what japanese maples needed so i said to my professor google what a sponge product
is best for japanese maples turns out that on the osmo website you can type in or search for
your plant and it will tell you exactly what is the best tone to use for your plant so i
thought that was fantastic because obviously we use a lot of the espoma products right
fantastic wonderful stuff i just didn't know should i use plant tone should i use holly tone
according to a sponge they recommend holly tone so i have my holly tone right here with me
have it so i'm going to go ahead and apply that around basically the drip line the base
of the tree and then i do have a little bit of mulch in the tub i'm going to put on top
remember we're going to come back through here and run irrigation to everybody this
whole entire area is gonna get fresh mulch um pretty soon within the next uh hopefully two weeks
so i will come back and she'll get another nice thick layer of mulch but for now
this will do and it will help hold in some moisture this time in north carolina we're getting
rain all the time the soil is nice and moist we're going to get lots of rain tomorrow but i might go
ahead and give it a nice drink of water since it was shipped from oregon although the soil felt
pretty damp it never hurts to give it a little bit of drink of water i'm gonna take my highlight tone
and do a little shaky shaky
all the way around to give it some nice food now when you have a bnb product um it is going to take
a year or two for those roots to come back and get really established and strong in your system
nope so brenna is discovering good girl is discovering the tones and so i am not letting her
eat them because if you have a dog you know how that's just a
never-ending cycle on that i did have some land and sea but like i said since we this
area does have nice good mulch and not mulch compost from when i did my david alston's
i'm just gonna skip the land and see this time because i already have fresh compost in the bed
okay the only thing left to do is to uh bind her and see how she flows out
all right my friends uh we have got a fantastic japanese maple in the landscape super excited
about this we don't have a japanese maple in our garden yet so this is the first one again
really excited about this it is going to be more upright
than wide so it will fill in this area just absolutely gorgeous give me lots of beautiful
early summer all the way through a fall color here it will contrast beautifully against the t olives
the roses that are basically right underneath my feet here it's going to be a great one super
super excited about this and it already has some new growth on it that is a lot of fun we
know it's a very happy tree i think it's going to be very happy in its new north carolina home
so if you're interested or thinking about adding a japanese maple to your garden
make sure that you are checking the mature size on it the sun requirements and
then basically your zones make sure that you've got plenty of both the heat and the cold tolerance
and that you find the right one because if you find the right japanese naple for your yard it
will be spectacular and give you years and years and years of enjoyment as always thanks so much
for guarding the creekside y'all have a fabulous day and we'll see in the next video bye my friends
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