Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we have a fun project on tap we
are going to plant the nice huge water trough here at the nursery if you will remember we have just
a livestock water trough that Jerry ran to the hardware store and got for me a couple of years
ago I said get the biggest one they have and it has been quite the attraction here at the nursery
because we do have it right here in front of the barn and the barn is really big so we need a
big container to make a big impact that you can see from a distance and I'm telling you
because this is right beside where our customers check out it is always a talking point and people
are very interested in it and I try to plant it differently every year like I try to really switch
it up I don't want to stick with just petunias one year I like to keep things fresh and going
and just have lots of fun we're definitely going to have lots of fun with it this year because
um just the whole design is going to be completely different and we're going to be using a bunch of
the new trial plants that we are trialing for proven winners these will be not all of them but
the vast majority of them will be um available for you in 2023 so i will tell you which plants
are available now and which ones are kind of a teaser that you get to wait until next year
and purchase them but that is part two of why we're putting them in this water trough is so
that we can see how they perform the plants we're gonna use so we have two of the fun
really fun um new introductions from proven winners are climbing sweet potato vines and
when i saw this i was thinking okay you know like really how much can a sweet potato vine climb well
i was in the production house yesterday working and organizing and let me tell you they climb
uh so this is one of them and you can see that tendril it really does climb so i have put
an obelisk in the center of the water trough and we're going to alternate the green
the lime and the and the dark purple together and let them climb up the
obelisk so we'll have that nice centerpiece so we're going to be using these guys we're
also going to pop in and i don't know that have the exact design in my head yet so it'll be
this is how we jenny just rolls but this is um queen tut queen tut is brand new this year
you can see that she is much more kind of open and spiky not quite the
pronounced blooms per se that prince tut has so i've got a some of those we're going to stick in
there we're gonna use the wonderful the tried and true cannot go wrong absolute winner of a plant
the wicked witch coleus this is not new this is available now it's been out for a couple of years
one of my all-time favorite coleuses we're going to use one on each end of the water
trough to kind of give it some anchor and some weight and hold that so we're going to use that
we are going to use another coleus that's brand new next year really fun this is watermelon and
watermelon i think you can tell from the color on it how it got its name but it is
a petite shorter coleus than like we could which because we could which can get nice and big right
this is going to be more petite so i can use this more like a filler so this will be really fun
have several of those we're going to plop in there there is a new petunia mini supertunia mini vista
red and this is a beautiful shade of red it's a i wouldn't call it like a fire engine red it's more
of a softer red a little bit on the pink side but it's still very much that red color it's very
much kind of like a watermelon color so that'll pair really nicely with the watermelon coleus
so we're going to put that in there and even though it has it is a supertunia it's the
mini vista right so mini vista will still trail but it's not going to be nearly as vigorous as
my vistas i have put vistas in this water trough before and i'm constantly cutting it
because they just trail so much this will give me a nice spiller without being like out of control
another fun little spiller that we're going to do that's to kind of go with all these same colors is
a new portulaca look at that beautiful solid just gorgeous yellow portulaca
huge blooms on this sucker so we're going to stick that in on the front too
as well to be a bit of a spiller and then the other i'll stick a couple of these in here for fun
this is a wire vine and wire vines are not new to the market it's not a new introduction but it is
new as far as with proven winners in their proven accents line really fun i have this
in the unique stone asian water bowl over there and it just gives a fun different texture
it's a little whimsical maybe not jerry's favorite but it is a lot of fun and whimsy so we're going
to stick that in there as well and of course you cannot do the water trough without caladiums so
we have got scarlet flame we already put it over there let me move the camera around and
we'll show you scarlet flame all right so here we have and this is the water trough you can see
i've already got the obelisk in here um i know you'll probably ask i got this obelisk for like
years and like i think maybe emily was born maybe she was born so i mean we're talking
about like 17 18 years ago that i got this thing at the southern christmas show in charlotte so i
just got it from a vendor um so really kind of any kind of obelisk or anything that's upright
that will be sturdy feel free to stick in there of course it has lots of good feet in there so it's
nice and and sturdy in there so we have this this is what we're gonna put the sweet potato mine on
this is the scarlet flame and scarlet flame is just a fantastic beautiful caladium that will be
sun or shade so you can see that it's got those green edges the red center with a little flecks
of pink in there and i do like this because one is gorgeous obviously but two because this container
even though we're in the shade right now the sun comes up straight in front of me this gets five to
six hours of good hot morning sun before it starts to set behind the barn so this will technically be
a full sun even part sun container coleus does amazing well in here
the petunias i've done before and they do great so it does get enough sun for your full sun plants
but also ones that can handle some shade do well in here also so it can be a little bit of a tricky
spot to plant there are i did not drill drain holes in the bottom of this container everybody
always asked me that but there is a drain hole in the back because this is a livestock water trough
in the back there is a drain hole about an inch two inches above the base in the back when we
installed this we left the drain hole open so i don't ever have to fear about it overflowing but i
didn't put drain holes in it because it acts semi like a self-watering container so that it holds a
little bit of water in the bottom for me and so the rest of the soil will wick up that moisture
we're not having to water it every you know once a day even in the heat of the summer it's like once
a week that we water these things when we plant first planted this and installed this we filled it
completely up with brand new potting soil straight from the bottom all the way to the top yes in the
beginning it was a ton of potting soil but it has given me years of gorgeous plants we do not
put fillers in it last year i had prince tut and coleus in here and i had caladium other things too
but it was the prince tut that i just took out a couple of weeks ago and man i had to like dig down
in there because their roots were massive took out a bunch of the soil when i took those plants out
and with their root system was in there so a lot of those um the soil was removed because of
the roots that were in the water trough i added probably i don't know five or six bags of fresh
soil on top but just get all those big clumps of roots out and it will do fine so without further
ado i'm going to grab the plants and i'm going to try to figure out how i'm going to design
this this is going to be a fun planter i can't wait to do that all right let me get some plants
all right so i think i have everybody placed where i want them to go but i am not going to
clear this out and then start planning because i'll never remember exactly where i supposed
to have everybody it is going to be pretty full from the beginning but that's all right
this is definitely if there was a container that i wanted to be more full faster than it
is here because this is such a high visibility space and starting tomorrow i will have folks
standing right here inspecting and looking at the plants so i wanted to be fuller faster that
is why we just kind of jam-packed everything in here um everything is in a single except
so for the queen tuts i did go ahead and pair them up as two on each side we have three of
the scarlet flames like a ribbon coming from the back and fanning out with those queen tuts behind
it and then i did one wicked witch and one of the watermelons on each side then of course with the
obelisk we have two of the greens and two of the black sweet potato vines the greens are directly
across from each other and as are the blacks i'm going to plant them with as far as like centered
with the um the stakes that way they can have something to grab onto immediately and begin to
climb as it goes up uh then i did go ahead and double up the portulaca and the mini vista reds
so we have two reds two portulacas on each side of the um container and there is one uh the wire vine
on each side if i end up having a little pocket of room somewhere on the outside like the outer rim
then i will add in some more of the wire vine but i'm just going to go ahead and start planting
i'm going to go for it the trough is balanced on each side so it's very symmetrical that way
it'll give a very balanced look to this barn when folks are coming up to it so without further ado
i am just going to get these in the ground in the pot and i'll meet you back here in a minute
do
all right guys the water trough is all planted it is very full i may be regretting how many plants i
put in here in the coming months but i don't think so it will be interesting to see how everybody
does because so many of these are trial plants and we're going to see what they do and you get to
watch it grow and develop along with us as the season goes along i'm really curious to see how
vigorous these sweet potato vines are you can see that they are starting to trail i was able
to get a couple of the little tendrils and to begin wrapping them around the obelisk but my
vision would be that if the whole thing's not covered you know but that a good bit would be
covered so that you would see all of this lime green black lime green black coming out of this
trough um but yeah we will keep you definitely updated and see how everybody does queen tut
is definitely new for me well i mean they're all new but you know how she gonna do compared to the
other ones because i've only ever grown prince tut prince tunt is the one that we've always done so
this will be fun to see how miss queen does along with the watermelon coleus and then the mini vista
and the portulaca so it will be lots of fun to see this grow and develop stay tuned throughout
this growing season and we will give you updates on it but as always thanks so much
for joining us creekside you all have a fabulous day and we'll see in the next video bye friends
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