hello friends it is Jenny here at Creekside nursery I hope that you are
having a great day and a great week it is an absolutely gorgeous day here at
the nursery and the weekend looks fantastic Creekside nursery in case you
forgot is an agricultural business therefore we are deemed essential by the
state and by the county this means that you can come shop at Creekside we have
got tons of gorgeous plants that need to go home with you more importantly you
need to get outside get some fresh air surround yourself with beautiful things
from nature we have got plants for everybody regardless of your gardening
level we can help you so come see us Thursday Friday 9:00 to 5:00 Saturday 9
to 3:30 we desperately need your help you desperately need to get outside and
be surrounded by beautiful things so come see us I have three things that I
need to tell you so I need you to really watch this entire video I will try to be
as concise as I possibly can and not ramble and get sidetracked okay first
tonight is going to be the coldest night in the foreseeable future I need you to
take care a little bit of your hot weather loving annuals your perennials
your shrubs your trees they're fine don't worry about them your hanging
baskets because they are supertunias or super bells they're fine don't worry
about them if you have those supertunia super bells those kinds of things in
your containers or landscape they're fine you're good your hot
weather loving plants are your coleus is your double inpatients your sweet potato vine
those are the ones that you need to give a little extra TLC to tonight is going
to be in the low 40s here at the nursery it'll probably dip down into the 30s
because we're always a little bit colder than what they say so it's not a frost
and it's not a freeze but those plants will freak out you'll go out tomorrow
morning and they will look they will be all limpy and look very very sad so what
you need to do is if you can't bring the container
into the garage do that it's just the easiest thing if you can't cover it with
an old bed sheet that's what I like to do or if they're in the landscape and
that's not practical to cover that amount of space with bed sheets I like
to take old nursery pots or buckets turn them upside down and cover the plants it
just gives it a little bit of insulation then by mid-morning tomorrow you can
take those off and your plants will be fine so give those coleus sweet potato
vine and impatiens give them some love tonight so they don't freak out too we
have got gorgeous herb plants ready to come home with you we had a massive
selection of herb plants this year we are carrying the Savor line of
vegetables and herbs here at Creekside these are great plants they come in
these sweet little peat pots I was going to try to say compost compostable
compostable whatever any way they they degrade so you don't have to take the
plant out of the pot what you're going to do is simply there's a perforated
edge you take the plastic label off and then you plant this directly into your
container or your garden box whatever you haven't noticed gardens are going to
be a massive thing this year we are all at home we're not going anywhere so we
might as well get outside and grow some yummy delicious things because if you
know if you've ever had a tomato from the farmers market or homegrown versus
the grocery store there's no comparison Victory Gardens are going to be massive
this year it is not hard to grow herbs and veggies in fact we're gonna do a
whole YouTube series on the Victory Garden we've already started ours of
course ours is on a large scale because what do we do here at Creekside that's
on a small scale nothing so ours is going to be on a big scale I know some
of you my sister lives downtown Charlotte in an apartment she has
nowhere to do a massive garden but she does have a patio she can do a little
mini garden in a container on her patio herbs
certain vegetables do amazing and containers so we have those available so
this is of course the Italian basil this is sage we have go through the whole
list to try to remember every all the herbs that we have we have basil we have
like three or four different varieties of basil sage thyme oregano two
different types of rosemary we have several different types of mint
peppermint spearmint what else am i forgetting lavender tarragon dill I mean y'all
we've got it all so if you need the herbs we have them also some really
exciting news that Jerry and I are super excited about starting tomorrow we're
going to have a wonderful selection of heirloom tomatoes that have been grown
by local tomato grower here in Gaston County
he always grows hundreds of tomato plants and then sells them to the public
via another source but obviously because of this whole mess that we're in right
now those sales have been cancelled so he contacted us and asked if we would be
open to having his tomato plants here we were so excited to have his tomato
plants it's David Thornburg again he's a local Dallas guy he does gorgeous
heirloom varieties of tomatoes that will be sold individually in those little
peat pots again it makes it very easy on you so we will have those two beginning
tomorrow this Thursday so great time to come get some great varieties of
tomatoes tomatoes do great in containers you don't have to do a ton and all these
are going to be indeterminate types of tomatoes which means that they put on
fruit over a long period of time so you're gonna get tomatoes through over
an extended amount of time heirlooms are always have delicious flavor you can
save the seeds and use them again the next year so herbs and veggies we have
them come get them number three last week we talked about with the whole
COVID-19 how we are going to deal with that as a
nursery yes we are agriculture come see us but we have to do things just a little
bit differently of course we have to give follow all of the CDC guidelines we
are doing that here at the nursery that includes being keeping that social
distancing of 6 feet apart from each other so I tell my kids because my kids are
like well what is 6 feet so I said well your daddy is about 6 feet tall so
imagine if he's laying down that that is the space that you need between us guys
we have to maintain that ok so what we're going to do to help make it easier
on all of us and to make everybody feel comfortable because we want you to be
comfortable here we don't want you to be anxious we want you to come and relax
and enjoy your time here because this is a gorgeous piece of property that we
want everybody to come to and see it and enjoy these beautiful plants therefore
we're going to be pulling after this cold night tonight we're going to pull
as many plants as we possibly can they will be something of everything we're
going to have this whole outdoor area filled with the plants all of the tables
are going to be full we're going to have them all over the
gravel we're going to have them just on the wagon of course you know where the
shrubs are down there we're gonna have plants spread out everywhere that way it
makes it super easy to keep that six feet from each other again remember we
talked about will give the air high fives will give the air hugs what's this
whole mess is over then we can truly love on each other but for now we have
to maintain that six feet greenhouses will be closed to the public employees
only if there happens to be something in there that you really want and it's not
out here ask one of us will happily go in and go get it it's just those
greenhouses can get a little cramped it makes it hard to move around so that's
what we're going to pull those plants out you can come here you can shop and
have plenty of room between each other because we've got gorgeous plants look
at this sorry I told you area I wasn't gonna move and then here I am moving you
know I can't help it I want Jerry to come zoom in on this
this is that brand new well that's not a good one
let's come to this one this is the brand new Vista petunia from Proven Winners
this is Snowdrift it is that pure white bloom so pretty and these are all the
other Vistas remember this does go into the landscape anyway I digress we've got
tons of gorgeous plants so they're going to be spread out everywhere I know a lot
of you come to us looking for help and recommendations for your landscape we
love doing that we're gonna have to tweak it a little
bit because a lot of times we pass phones back and forth obviously under these
circumstances we need to stop doing that so what I need you to do is if you have
an area that need some inspiration some help on I need you to either print that
picture before you come so that you can hand it to us so we can safely interact
with one another and or you could draw it just do a rough drawing tell me the
measurements tell me you know is it the width the depth all that good stuff if
you have containers that you want us to help plant guys I really need to know
how big the container is please measure it before you come I love you
desperately but some of y'all I'm like how big is your pot well I don't know
that doesn't help me y'all I've got to know how big your pot is here at the nursery we're
going to have these little posters hanging up around the nursery to help
give you ideas this is a hot mess right now excuse me so these are recipes from
Proven Winners that they have come up with all the plants that you see in
these recipes we have here at the nursery so for example this is ace of
spades up here it tells you that it is going to
be a shade container it tells you how big this container is this is a 16 inch
container and that tells you the plants you need and how many you need of them
so if you see this and you like it take a picture of your cell phone with it
then go around the nursery and shop so we have things for shade upside down
more shade of course loves the sun and if it's in a hanging basket don't worry
about that thing outside the box it doesn't have to be a hanging basket you
put in the container you put it in landscape but it tells you all of these
great ideas so if you want to do is like some
fallish colors there's something that with the grass just tons of different
things so what we're going to do is I'm going to have them hanging like on the
pergola on the outhouse all throughout spaced so that you can
get some great inspiration and be a little bit more self-sufficient when
you're shopping so you can kind of get an idea of what you like and we can go
from there again we love you we want you to come see us because we know that
being outside getting fresh air being in the Sun is one of the best things that
you can do for your body physically and emotionally if you even if you're like
Jenny I'm not sure about shopping just go online and look at that we are
working furiously to try to get all of that set up so that you can order online
and then just do a kind of a curbside pickup but it's just going to take us a
little bit of time to get all of the product on there what we're considering
it's going to go ahead and make the site live and as I add product in there then
it becomes available if there's something that you know exactly like we
had a customer this week that said I know exactly what I want I want X Y & Z
and this is what I need can you pull it for me and can you know can you make it
available for me absolutely you know Jerry got that product to her didn't
have to do a whole lot of interaction so it is possible we can do this together
we want you to grow bloom and thrive not only with your plants but in your life
in your relationships and when the best things you can do is get outside get
some fresh air get some sunshine surround yourself with
beautiful things I don't care if you've never grown anything you're in your life
or you've been gardening for 50 years we can help you just come communicate with
us well maintain you six feet of social distancing Thursday & Friday 9-5 Saturday 9-3:30
we love you we will see you soon guys bye