hey friends welcome to gardening with creekside i'm jenny and it is our weekly
nursery update remember we are here at creekside nursery in
dallas north carolina coming to you in the middle of
august for our weekly tour of the nursery to show you what is in bloom
and what is thriving right now so we're going to go
through a bunch of great shrubs and flowering
shrubs and some new perennials that we're growing out
so lots of fun things so if you have your gardening journal make sure you
grab it and take some notes so that you if you see something that just jumps out
at you you can write down the name of it but
we are here in the shrub lot with our new edition
lately of the pergola that we built here as a display
it's really fun kind of entrance here we have it lined
the entranceway with some proven winners sprinter boxwoods so if you don't know
what a sprinter boxwood is they are a fantastic evergreen
shrub was it actually developed by um dr tom ranney at nc state university
so go wolf pack all those people out there
the sprinters are great because they are an
evergreen and they can do sun or shade they are very manageable they're going
to be somewhere between about like two to four feet
easily pruned easily managed they're not going to be crazy and out of control
um and for a boxwood they are a fast grower
so you can do like what we've done here and create kind of like a hedge
you know you actually plant them if you have like a formal garden that you want
to do so you can do that or you could plant them as great
foundation plantings in front of your house to give you some evergreen
and we get tons of people asking about that they want a
kind of a manageable shrub to put in a large container
that they can keep year-round and then change around the bottom well
sprinter would be a great option for you so let me show you the tag here
so this is sprinter boxwood and it is a japanese boxwood instead of
an english boxwood so it is um going to have a lot of natural
disease resistance to it so you don't have to worry about the boxwood blight
as jerry just zoomed in it is deer resistant so
yay for that party in zones five to nine also
some of y'all complain about that you don't like boxwoods because you think
that they smell funny the sprinter does not have that smell so
that's the english boxwood this is a japanese so it does not have that smell
so it's deer resistant sun or shade doesn't smell
and is resistant to boxwood blight i mean
what's not to love but come on let's go this way so on the pergola
we have um we worked with megan from proven winners
and so she helped us come up with these great custom signs
between proven winners and creekside nursery
and so in that picture is incrediball hydrangea so clearly you can see it is
this massive hedge of hydrangeas um
at a home and so this is a personal home he actually is one of the pw executives
and so this is his backyard and it is full of
incrediball hydrangeas which we have right here obviously these
are not in bloom right now but they are just that great
classic i'll show you the tag great classic
white what you just think of traditional mop head
blooms on them when these guys are in bloom
they are absolutely gorgeous the tag is wet so i can't get it open
here we go now these are sun hydrangeas they are going to be four to five feet
tall and wide and they are hardy in zones three to
nine so extremely versatile very
well adapted to just about any kind of growing conditions
with our new patio i have plans for incrediballs so
that is a great one gem box is another great alternative so if you just did set
against the boxwood gym box is a great option for you
it is a petite evergreen shrub it is actually an inkberry holly and it is
sun to part shade zones five to nine two to three feet tall and wide again
does great in the ground in a container so forth and so on we
have pugster pugster blue if you are looking to
attract the butterflies you cannot go wrong with a butterfly
bush this is just that real petite one it's
like a two by two smells great butterfly bushes are
naturally deer resistant and this is going to be
hardy and zones five to nine i mean it's just fantastic
the butterflies have been all over these in fact
i'm gonna let jerry walk ahead of me because there is a gorgeous
butterfly on that pugster so as not to disturb her
and her evening meal i mean look at that now we did just have a huge rain and we
had a storm come through so all the butterflies are probably
still drying out somewhere but typically during the day when it's
nice and hot and sunny this area is absolutely covered
in butterflies of all sizes so um this sweet thing she is out there
and i say she you know everything is a she to me um
loving life now at the end of the week we last week we got
um two deliveries of shrubs and i am so excited to show them to you
because these are shrubs that we have used over
and over and over and over again and we can sit here and tell you that
they are good hearty strong
shrubs for our region so they can handle the heat the humidity the sun
anything you throw at it they're going to be able to handle it so
first of all let's go through this real quick we have got four
of the limelight trees so again that great hydrangea from proven
winners limelight this has been it trained
in a tree form or standard form is the nursery term
so it has recently been pruned and you can see all of the new growth on it
it will bloom again before the fall so it will just have
those great white blooms on it that turn to a great limey green
so the hydrangea trees are wonderful for like in the center of
a bed if you want to put something on the
corner of your house but you don't want an actual full-fledged tree
these are great options for you again limelights do like the sun so you've got
to have a sunny location for it but what i'm
talking about right now is oh my goodness both of these are from
southern living so these are southern living from the southern living plant
collection this is the sunshine ligustrums
now if you have been around creekside for any length of time
you know how much we absolutely adore this shrub it is an evergreen a lot of
times when you come up to it and you touch
the foliage it's a very soft feels like a very tender kind of foliage and you
think oh it's going to be deciduous it's going to
lose its leaves no it doesn't it keeps this great color all year
long it is full sun so if you were to stick this
in the shade it is going to turn just a regular green
so it's called sunshine for a reason it needs the sunshine to have this great
vibrant (lime) green color now size wise on these guys they are going
to be in that three to six foot range now
six feet for this guy would be if you never pruned it
and or like an extremely mature plant so we have these up at our mailbox for
years they're around that four foot mark we
prune them once a year just to shape them up and then that's it
and slow release fertilizer in the spring
and there you go we love pairing the sunshine ligustrums
with look at that color look at that is that not gorgeous so
this is a fantastic one another one from the southern living
purple daydream now it is a loropetalum
now for some of you when i say loropetalum you all just shudder and you run
away screaming because you've had a bad experience with the lorapetulums that
get to be about 15 feet tall that is not the case with these guys
these are only going to be two to three feet tall three to four
feet wide they truly are a petite loropetalum they are
fantastic as a foundation plant in front of your
house they are evergreen they keep this color loropetalums in
the late winter early early spring will put
on little bright pink blooms because
loropetulum is also known as a chinese fringe flower so they get that because
they have the little fringes the little blooms on them they are going
to be full sun to part shade but love this combination together
absolutely gorgeous i mean imagine this year-round color at your
house and you can mix it with like other kinds of greens you can
throw in you know butterfly bushes and all sorts of things in there
it's just a great way to start like you cannot go wrong with this combination
all right let's move up and show you some perennials so we've talked about it
before how you know we are the grower here at
creekside and we have gotten in a couple well gosh it's probably about a
month ago at least now maybe even six weeks ago we got a huge
shipment of perennials from walters gardens
they are a wonderful wholesale nursery in michigan
that just give us gorgeous perennial root stock and plugs
aquapot aquapot's still doing their thing bless them
but up here i want to show you because we always tend to go down
the pergola and we never come over here so there's a whole section over here
that we hadn't even talked about so i want to show them to you
um now again we are the grower these are still babies they're growing
out so this is not going to be a full-size plant that we're showing you
okay just keep that in mind they're still growing
but right here is the paint the town series
of dianthus this is magenta we have carried this one for years
it is an amazing perennial it's a low grower
it's a semi evergreen so even in the winter you will still have your foliage
has great blue green foliage on it it is going to be hardy in zones
four to nine loves the sun does these beautiful
hot pink flowers on it with a really nice little
sweet smell to it love this whole series of paint the town
next we have midnight masquerade this thing has taken off i mean like it
is a happy happy plant so midnight masquerade
another fabulous perennial it is jerry's zooming in i'm getting
ready to take it from him a penstemon so it's going to be a little
bit tall so this will bring you some height where the dianthus is short
this will bring you some height to it hearty in zones three to
eight just has that great deep burgundy color to it
and then it'll do those really pretty spikes of purple blooms
fantastic one midnight masquerade type of penstemon we're going to have
some phlox this year some creeping phlox so
if you um i mean i know here in the south
especially the creeping phlox is one of the very
first perennials to bloom in the springtime so you can be
driving down the road and you'll see in people's yards
just these carpets of color a lot of times you'll see them on like
steep banks and things like that because this creeping phlox is low and it
spreads out it creeps and then it will put on these
gorgeous blooms early in the spring i mean it's just one
of those first blooms and it's after a long winter you
know it is so nice so this is ruby riot um i love that series spring bling
so much fun oh and then this one i am super excited about
jerry kind of wasn't so excited about this but i i pushed him
so a monarda monarda bee balm this is pardon my cerise and so this is
fantastic perennial that the butterflies and the hummingbirds
absolutely go bananas over again hearty in zones four to eight it's
going to be 14 to 18 inches tall um but monarda it traditionally can be
really big like the tr the um the old classic jacobs cline monarda like it can
be like as tall as me like it can be really big
so this one is a nice much more manageable
14 to 18 inches tall monarda but those still the same great blooms but not
the overpowering floppiness of say like jacob's cline so we've got
those um we've got some grasses these this is
apache rose from proven winters so full disclosure
here this had gotten tucked up in
the pines area for the majority of the growing season this year
left over from last year it didn't get out into the sun until like two weeks
ago so she is coming back this is an example
of we the grower had her in the wrong spot we knew she
was full sun but it's just one of those things
out of sight out of mind kind of thing so that's what's going on there
look at this sorry i know i switched gears really fast
um i'm trying to find one for you without making them all fall all right
again you have to sometimes i tell you you
just need to buy the plant because of the name
well this is one of those plants boogie woogie
isn't that fun so boogie woogie is a sedum it is a perennial
um so as all sedums are they love it and lots of sun and heat this is going to be
really a petite one so only six to eight inches tall
and then it spreads and gets wide this it will bloom with those little tee tiny
little yellow blooms that you can see there but it just has a great
color on it a great beautiful green with creamy edges
it's just it's a fun one it's a fun one for sure so boogie woogie
is great and then some more grasses this is i love this one this is
blue paradise Schizachyrium
just a gorgeous perennial blue-green grass
that is fantastic it brings you height you can leave it up even in the winter
time it changes kind of color as the season
goes on so just brings a lot of height and
interest because 36 to 42 inches tall and it will do
just a little bit of a a little bit of a plume on top it's not gonna be really
um plumy that's not even a word but you you get what i'm saying as far as like
other perennial grasses but it's the color of that blue-green
foliage that is just fantastic
and then of course we have all the different black-eyed susans again we had
a big storm that just came through here some of them are falling over so this is
the um native one this is the black eyed susan
this is the rudbeckia fulgida
i'm gonna turn it around for you got that
there we go so this is the true native black-eyed susan
it will naturalize if you leave the heads on them the blooms they'll
turn to seed your finches love to come eat these
and then of course they drop their seeds and they will naturalize
just as happy as can be but let's see am i forgetting anything i
don't think so of course we still have all the hostas
all the other stuff is still growing you can see all of that oh we did that
last week never mind i was going to say those shade annuals but we did that last
week so if you missed that go to last week's video and you can look at that
aqua pots are we are taking orders for those so
we got lots of um requests that people have already put in
putting in their name and their deposits for their aqua pots for
next spring so if you are interested in purchasing an aquapot
for next year you can check out our website gardeningwithcreekside.com
all the information is right there remember an aquapot is that fantastic
self-watering container from proven winners
jack barnwell and michael carr so it's a collaboration between
the three of them they are wonderful we have used them all season and have been
highly impressed with them gorgeous gorgeous ceramic pots that are
self-watering and you only have to water the plant the pot
once a week it's fantastic so if you're interested go
go check that out but anyway make sure that you like the video
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family we'd love to have you here and i do not know what jerry's doing
oh he's you really should see his face behind the camera y'all
i'm sorry mums mums will be they're coming
we have some that are cracking color again remember mums
bloom early mid and late bloomers so the early ones are starting to crack some
color i i personally think this is my theory
y'all if you wear blue jeans and you buy fall things
then the weather has to turn right i mean doesn't that make
sense you wear blue jeans you get your mums you start drinking your pumpkin
spiced coffees um you do all that and then the
weather will like change on a dime so if we all do
that then we can get rid of this heat and humidity
here in the south really quickly okay thanks appreciate that
okay see y'all next week bye friends