Good morning friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we are going
to do a little bit of an impromptu nursery tour because we got some fantastic beautiful
plants in yesterday that I am so excited to share with you we ordered these way back in
the fall and I have been eagerly anticipating their arrival they came yesterday as a little
surprise didn't know they were shipping this at this time so it's kind of like a little bit of a
Christmas morning here in the beginning of April so what we have are these fantastic um perennial
sempervivums simple vitamins however you want to say it and some fantastic ajugas you may be
familiar with the series chick charms so chick charms is they are perennial like i said hidden
chicks so what this is a fantastic company up in michigan they are a nursery and they have
um it is their brand the chick charms is their brand and these are fantastic little hidden chicks
that you can order as a nursery to offer to your customers what i love about them is that they will
be perennials they're cold hardy they are hearty in zones three to eight um if you know anything
about um the hidden chicks they are super easy to take care of they of course love the full sun they
like it hot they like it pretty dry so you can quote neglect these plants and they will do great
another fun thing about the whole chick charm series is that they come in all of these
different colors so this little trio right here is called the truffles and tarts then we have um
here we go here's one they're kind of gotta find here then we have the candied campfire
stuff you back in there look at that look at those so they're called hen and chicks
is because you have the mother plant which is the big plant right so that's the hen
and then they put out little quote babies the little chicks off to the side um it's interesting
just doing some reading and research on them so when the the hen dies it'll leave space and if you
just take it out then the chicks will fill in and it's this great continuous cycle that's why you
can have them just go on for years and years and years so that and then we have um cherry cordial
there's all sorts of fun different little quote recipes that we got
what i plan on doing with these of course you can put them in the landscape you'll just want to make
sure that they are in like a well-draining spot so with our clay soil you'll really want to amend
that soil so that it drains well they don't like to sit in water but what i plan on doing
is making and planting my michael carr strawberry succulent planter with these guys because they
are going to be that is like the perfect container for these sweet little things so
not only do we have the little trios but we also have what's called a living canvas so the living
canvas again we have multiple recipes and this but this is just a different collection of those
cold hardy perennial succulents the hidden chicks and different cold hardy succulents
so you can use these again you can put them in containers again hearty and zones like three to
eight but look at that and they have i think that's the string of pearls i believe really
fun so we got multiple recipes and these guys as well let's see look at this one so this one has
a couple of so see here's your um that's your hen right here so a couple of different recipes where
they put them together just really really pretty you can leave them in this container you know for
a while because they do like it dry and then of course you could move it up as you would like to
but there's lots of fun different ones i had the absolute most fun ordering these guys because
their catalog is just beautiful um yeah look at that these two remind me of seaweed isn't that
fun so neat so again containers it's best to put them in a container and not the ground unless you
really amend it and then if you want kind of a um like instant wow that you can really just kind of
leave alone then this is look at this nice oval container and this is just the chick charms mix
now you again can leave it in this container but look at all those gorgeous colors on there
just really really fun so you can leave it in here or if you wanted to eventually take it out and
separate them you certainly could do that but it is meant for at least for this time being to stay
in here together and you can see like how closely you can plant these hidden chicks to one another
of course all the different color variations just make it pop and it's gorgeous and it's so
much fun i mean they're just fantastic aren't they so the chick charms of course are all of the um
yeah so the chick charms are the hen and chicks the sempervivums next we have from the same fella
these are feathered friends and this is actually ajuga so we have multiple kinds of ajugas but
that this is what he has um um deemed his uh ajuga collection so here we have the um i'm looking at
it backwards here uh what's this called oh cordial canary and then we have fancy finch so again these
are perennials just like the other ajugas that we know and love but they come in these bright colors
that will stay these colors year round now these are hardy in zones four to nine you can plant them
in the ground or you can keep them in containers however you want to and of course ajugas will
bloom so the fancy finch is already blooming and then we have a nice pretty dark one this is
fierce falcon look at that and you can see that they'll that they they run they
spread um so you can use those again in just multiple um applications they make
great ground covers because they don't get very tall um this is really your bloom is
gonna be your height on this but nice really beautiful colors then we have parrot paradise
so see if you mix some any kind of combination that you want the colors play off of each other
really really well so this is just a really fun and then we have somebody else back here
tropical toucan i mean the names are great and of course because so this is tropical toucan
back here another nice lime green one and you can tell though right beside beside of it is
the cordial canary but different leaf structure on them um and so it's really fun to mix and
match them you could put them in containers like a mixed arrangement with you know other
you want to put other annuals with it or use it with other perennials you certainly could do that
but just to let you know we have these available here at the nursery now and like i said they came
in pretty late yesterday afternoon and so it was a nice surprise and really fun
to see these i cannot wait to get my hands on these and start playing with them is going to be
tons of fun but while we're here in the greenhouse i wanted to give you an update on some plants that
maybe we haven't talked about so far um salvias i know we've talked about salvias but they are
just looking fantastic right now this is one of my favorites this is rock and playing the blues
planted this last year in the landscape i i love all the rock and salvias so there is not one that
i love more than the other but this one's a little bit different because of its foliage color it's a
little bit more of a silvery gray color as opposed to like the other ones that have a nice deep dark
green and the bloom is a little bit different on it i had this and by the front porch underneath
the um the hortsman and the pollinators went nuts over this this is what i'm going to plant
around my david alston roses so i'm going to have all my different colored roses and then
in front of that i'm going to have just a mass of the play in the blues it is going to be stunning
but if you're looking to attract i know we talked about this in one of these last videos about the
hummingbirds then this is unplugged pink we have unplugged pink and the rockin fuchsia but
all of these salvias are huge magnets for the hummingbirds they cannot resist these things
the unplugged pink is brand new this year so it's a more of a pink color as opposed to the fuchsia
so they are doing well and then the sunflowers so we have both the sun credible yellow and the sun
credible saturn which is just around here oh here we go right here so we have saturn and yellow
remember these are re-blooming sunflowers that will get really about like a four feet by four
feet if you put them in the landscape and you can tell that they've already started to put some buds
on and they branch you don't have to pinch them but if you do cut the flowers to bring in you
know to make those little bud vases or to add to flower arrangements then that does help the
plant branch out some more you're pruning it you just don't really know that you're pruning
it and that really helps them branch and get nice and thick and bushy they do like full sun
so and i learned really kind of that first year that we grew it as a trial plant to go ahead
and put it in the landscape unless you have a really big container with them
yes so because the sun credible saturn is new this year we are going to plant
masses like in huge huge quantities all together these sun credible saturns so we have
big plans for landscaping in general here in the nursery for display gardens um but yeah
so it's incredible saturn you're gonna see a lot of here at creekside another great one that we
haven't even talked about at all this is the laguna sky blue this is a labella look at that
beautiful true blue flower on it just stunning this year i am trialing the new introduction
but i do love this plant it is just a gorgeous one it is a little bit more
cool weather friendly so it does enjoy the cool weather and then we can't pass by these beautiful
double end patients this is the rockapulco series these are definite shade lovers but look at the
white they have that double flower reminds you that they're like a miniature rose with
gor look at all those buds on it i mean just tons of buds so we have it in coral reef we have it in
purple we have it in wisteria we have it in apple blossom lots and lots of colors for these guys but
if you have shade and you think oh my gosh i can't have any color um yeah you can look at that just
so pretty and they just they're pretty low maintenance i mean of course just like with
any other annual they need water obviously and then fertilizer and then pretty much that's it
again massive hummingbird attractor is the um vermillionaire kufia and with the greenhouse
being open our hummers have begun to return to us so they have been in here eating and feasting and
just being very very happy we are going to head over to the barn real quick because i want to show
you we have a new new for us not new product by any means but we have um begun carrying the falco
clippers and all of their accessories here at the nursery and so if you come to creekside you can
purchase your clippers and or if you need other materials supplies you can get those
as well so when you come to the nursery we have the whole system set up right here in the barn
falco has been fantastic to work with so far we just have really enjoying our relationship with
them but we have all the different sizes we have the two the 13 all sorts of different ones but
it's really fun is that you can come in here and there's actually a physical display that you can
put your hands on to decide which is the best size and the best fit for you because when i put my
hand on this is too big this feels good in my hand so this is really fun that you can check those out
but yes so there's all sorts all the clippers the little snips the knives the saws cleaning
products because maintaining your clippers is a really big deal because if you take care of your
falcos they will last you for years upon years upon years so there is a cleaner there is like
a grease a lubricant and then there is a sharpener so lots of things here and i know a lot of you ask
what gloves that i like to use these are my favorites we have been using these for
gosh past three or four months this is bellingham they are
wonderful they hold up my these are my two current favorites they have a whole line
of them different applications for different you know different things but these are my favorite
because they do have that nitrile coating and you know how i am about trying to protect my hands
and my fingers from cuts and scrapes just a little bit of a different thickness
this the one that i have this is the nearly naked is a little bit of a tougher a better grip to it
because it has the texture and then the touch is great for just light gardening like if you're
potting up those kinds of things if you're digging in the soil and pruning you might want these
anyway i get asked all the time which ones are my favorite gloves this bellingham these are the
ones that i love and we have them here at the nursery for you to um to purchase so they are
here and ready for you to take home but again we are now open wednesdays through saturday nine to
three um and we look forward to seeing you here i will say too that this saturday yes this saturday
we have some cold temperatures so you might want to watch your plants that you have already put out
and just be aware of the temperatures of where you are but as always thanks so much
for garnier with creekside you all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends