Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside we're gonna have a little fun do things a little
differently we are going to plant this whole little collection of pots that I have here beside
my garden shed and we are going to have some fun dooming plantings now the garden shed which used
to be a chicken coop turned into my garden shed and now has gone back to a chicken coop because
the girls have had to have a temporary home in here because we have not gotten the other Coop
up yet so I know a lot of people are asking about how the chickens are doing they're doing great so
if you're peeping they're just back they're just having a hi-ho time behind me that'll be
really fun to do this collection of blue shaded pots right here beside the now old chicken coop
I've had these pots for forever I got them it's called Ollie's is a discount place they sell
a little bit of everything and in the spring they do really nice ceramic lace pottery and
I have had it for I mean literally like years clearly I love the cobalt blue I have already
planted in here and At Last Rose who is blooming beautifully and smells Divine so I have an At Last
Rose then I have the this is a Spanish lavender and it is in a standard form a topiary form she
is in a container by herself and then we have the double white super Bells double white this is the
improved version new version from Proven Winners it is a 2024 introduction obviously what I'm going
to do is I'm going to plant one plant per pot and use this as a collection together and we're going
to do some things that maybe you don't think of to put in pots because I want this to work together
as a cohesive grouping instead of doing like a big container and putting a bunch of these different
plants in there we're going to put each plant in its own pot and then use a collection together to
make an arrangement that way if we have different water needs we can handle those water needs with
no problem and gives me different heights colors textures and everybody has plenty of room to grow
putting compost in the bottom of the pot is a little trick that I read about from I think it
was fine gardening several years ago and it works beautiful so what we do is we put the
compost in the bottom one third of your container I use the black gold today and then you put your
potting mix on top of that so of course we use the proven winter potting mix great wonderful
it drains really well for me I love it we're going to plant the plants in there because you
put the compost in the bottom one it helps retain some moisture because containers obviously drain
a lot faster right this gets full hot afternoon sun rear blessed with some cloudy weather today
so therefore I am in the shade but it does get hot afternoon sun and I this is not going to be
on irrigation so I have to hand water this so for me to retain some moisture is a good thing
also it is a whole another layer of nutrients so once those roots will hit that compost they
have a whole nother food source available to them we're going to plant them and then we're going to
come back with our land and sea compost to top dress now this is just a personal preference
people have asked me about why we use Black Gold over land and sea back and forth they are both
excellent excellent products the land and sea can be very hard for some people to find black
gold is a little bit easier because it's found in your Ace Hardware Stores it is a wonderful
product and we really enjoy using it however I am going to top dress with my land and Seed
because it's darker the Black Gold compost can be a little light brown for me and I like
the dark the darker look of the land and sea so we're going to top dress with land and sea today
now what we're going to do is first things first is um putting your plants with your pot so what
are we going to use today well I have two kind of really three plants that are going to get bigger
one we have the graceful grasses purple fountain grass this is a very beautiful dark purple
grass that will have a very vigorous root system so we are going to put it in the largest pot we're
going to put that right there in the middle as these plants grow and maybe some of them get
bigger we can rearrange and Shuffle some plants but that's okay so my grasses is going to have my
most vigorous root system therefore I'm going to put it into the largest pot next we have the Rock
and deep purple Salvia now right now it is only in a grande size container right well this plant will
get nice and big multi-branching nice rich purple flowers on it that will be a nice comparison
companion planting rather with my lavender so I put it in my next biggest container that I
have left so it will go right here right beside the atlas Rose it will be beautiful next on the
list that we are going to plant is this beautiful this is a Cedar Rapids and this is actually where
we're gonna think a little different this is a false cypress it is going to go into the far
container on the other side of the purple fountain grass in front of the super Bells double White NOW
false cypress the Cedar Rapids can get is a tree and it can be 30 feet tall 12 to 15 feet wide now
clearly this is not going to be long term in a container but our friends at Spring Meadow
Nursery sent me three of them to kind of test out and they are in one gallon containers and
I thought you know what let's just try something different let's put it in a container which would
be about the equivalent to maybe a two or three gallon container so it's going to be moved up
so the Cedar Rapids will bring a whole different kind of texture to this this plant grouping and
it'll be just really fun and kind of different now when this outgrows the container which will
probably be at the end of the season like the roots will go all the way around then I'm going
to pop it out of that container and then put it into the landscape it can join the other two I'm
thinking the other two are going to go somewhere near the chicken coop the new chicken coop but
that will be fun to put those that one in there next that Brita is keeping uh safe for me I have
a really fun new petunia now this petunia came to me as a gift from one of our sweet customers and
she had told me about some really fun different plants that she gets at her local farmers market
she found this this is lime Royale petunia and it is a really fun has ruffled edges on it nice Deep
Purple Center and then it kind of comes out to like a lime green on the outside with a little
bit of purple lavender on the edges again this little purple will pair beautifully with both the
lavender and the Salvia so it is going to go in here it'll be interesting to see the Vigor on this
plant I have no clue how this plant is going to grow it seems like it's going to be nice and tight
which will be really nice in this container if it starts to outgrow the container maybe I can find a
bigger one but we're gonna it's all an experiment here people and then finally I have a little tall
skinny vase we're going to put two of this is they're going to be brand new for 2024. this is
the Superbells double smitten pink it is a double caliber coat a darker center with nice light kind
of the baby doll pink on the edge this will pair really nicely with my Superbells white because
that is a double and then this is a double I have two of them I could probably very easily get away
with only putting one in this container because it's small but I had two left so I was like well
go big or go home so we're gonna put them in there together and plant them as one and let them fill
out so without further Ado all I'm going to do is just plop these plants out of the containers and
then put them into the uh the bigger containers and yeah I'll meet you back here in just a minute
it was a simple project pretty quick and easy very painless to do but it's going to be a lot
of fun to watch this whole collection of pots and plants grow and develop as the season progresses
we have got shrubs perennials and annuals all here together my shrubs of course will be my Atlas rose
that is a very happy very healthy full of blooms the thing with your rose is you do want to come in
there and deadhead so once your flowers are gone then go in there and just snip them back that way
you the plant puts more energy into more growth and not cry trying to create those rose hips so
at last rows beautiful shrub then the Cedar Rapids false cypress is in there as well it's going to be
really fun and interesting to see how that one grows because this is a brand new for me and out
in the market I don't believe it's even available on the market until next year so we will see how
it does now yes it will be a giant tree but for this season it will do quite well in that
container and then my perennial with my Spanish lavender it had a gorgeous flush of blooms early
on in the season they're still on there but it is putting on tons of new growth this is a new one
for me as well so we're just gonna you know see how she does but she's already started blooming
again just a fun different kind of Whimsy to this right being a nice little standard
topiary form and then we have the texture of the purple fountain grass and then our color
comes from both the super Bells double white the new super Bells a pink that will be out available
next year my sweet gift of the petunia from a friend and then the Rockin Deep Purple Salvia
that all kind of plays in here together nice fun cool colors it goes with the garden as well that
is right in directly in front of me and everything just kind of cohesively goes together all I have
to do is keep this watered and then my flowering annuals I will use my Proven Winners water-soluble
fertilizer on them once every honestly like two weeks that'll probably be about as good as I can
get to keep them nice and dark and green and just full of beautiful flowers if it gets too long and
leggy I can just come in there and trim them up and they will do great right so just think kind of
outside the container outside the box when you're thinking about putting your plants together I know
that some folks have a really hard time planting directly in the ground maybe you don't have a
ground maybe you're in an apartment or a condo and you don't have a garden with soil put your
pots together use a beautiful collection of pots whatever pots you have right that's the fun and
The Whimsy they don't have to be all matchy-matchy in these designer pots no use what you have heck
you're talking to a girl who uses a wheelbarrow and a grill for a container anything if it holds
its soil and it has a drainage hole it can be used as a planter so just think outside of some
traditional pots and just have fun putting your plants together if you have voles or mold yeah
voles that eat your plants pots are a great way to go you can still have your beautiful
flowers they're just not in the ground where their Roots get eaten and so whatever the problem may be
in your garden if you have a hard time planting directly in the landscape put them in containers
and put them together you can have a beautiful assortment of colors and textures all season
long as always thank you so much for gardening with Creekside we hope you have found this
fun informative and inspirational you all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends