Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside and this week's Nursery Tour we have got some
fantastic shrubs to share with you and a gorgeous new delivery of fall color if you are close by to
us we are North Carolina Zone 7B just west of Charlotte and you've been paying attention to
the weather forecast you might know that I know Thursday September 22nd is the first day of fall
it's gonna be quite toasty here on Thursday but Friday and Saturday and the rest of the following
days are going to be absolutely spectacular it is going to feel like fall cool air dry air so
this is going to be a fantastic time to come in and get some plants for your garden and then be
outside and enjoy all of this delicious gorgeous weather now fall is a great time to add your
perennials trees and shrubs because that way they have all winter to get their Roots really
well established before next Summer's heat hits so if you're looking at you know adjusting tweaking
your landscape with some of those bigger items the perennials trees and shrubs now is a great
time to be planting and getting these plants and getting them in the ground one of our best sellers
we love this plant this is a sunshine ligustrum it is a beautiful evergreen shrub that will be
easily maintained anywhere from three to six feet tall really bright green like chartreuse
color the more sun it gets the more yellow and bright and vibrant it is if you don't get enough
Sun it will turn just a beautiful shade of green so I know that some people have said Well mine's
not really bright it's probably because it's not getting enough Sun these are let's see I
know that you people do love your tags so let's see if Jerry can come in here and show you this
tag for the sunshine ligustrum it is going to be Hardy in zones six to ten and there you go if
you need some more information feel free to go to Southern livingplantcollection.com and look
up sunshine ligustrum it is a great one one of the other fun shrubs that we got in last week's
shipment was this gorgeous Temple of Bloom from Proven Winners this is a seven sunflower Outlet
Jerry zoom in here on the second here on that tag again if you want tons of specific information go
to provenwinners.com Simply type in the title of the plant and it will show you and give you
all the information you could possibly want about this plant now this is going to be really like a
tree it has kind of the same habit and and look of what like a crepe myrtle would where it's going to
be a multi-trunk plant it is going to be in sun to part shade it is going to be hearty in zones
five to nine because it's going to be six to ten feet tall and wide so as it grows you limb it up
so it has this beautiful canopy and you can see it's gorgeous trunks now Temple of Bloom is a
really fun plant because it has um gorgeous white flowers that the pollinators absolutely love one
of our great customers and Friends Tina sent me a picture and she was like Jenny my temple of Bloom
is stunning pollinators are covering it and then it has really fun fall color so it has great fall
color like some crepe myrtles the trunk will peel so I know like our Natchez is on the front of our
house right in front of our house the bark peels this will do the exact same thing so if you're
looking for a small tree at mature size you really might want to consider this Temple of Bloom really
fun you can see it's got lots of beautiful new growth on it these light colored leaves with
some red on the tips that is all brand new foliage but you can see that it does have multiple trunks
in it so as it grows we just limb it up and let all the beautiful foliage up top have all the fun
we did not even talk about in last week's video but they went like crazy these are fire chief
Arborvitae it is a non-branded plant that's why it's in a black pot meaning that it's not
you know put out there by a certain Plant Company you should be able to find these but fire chief
arborvitaes are a fantastic evergreen shrub that like all arborvitaes you can see it has this
beautiful kind of this coppery red tips to it as the temperatures go down this whole plant on the
outside is going to take on that copper look now you can see it's not dead because in the Middle
where the cooler temperatures and the um doesn't get down into it it's a beautiful green so this
is definitely one of those plants that's very soft to the touch it's not like a cedar where it pokes
you and is hard very soft to the touch makes a beautiful Mound you don't really have to trim it
I think it's like a three by three manageable size on that and um but it's a great it's a foundation
plant so if you're looking for a nice Evergreen plant that brings you fall color interest winter
interest then the fire chiefs might be a great option for you another really fun tree
um is this Stellar Ruby Magnolia Magnolia from the Southern Living plant collection
and this fun plant you can get that tag for me so they can see so this is a beautiful
evergreen tree that is Hardy in zones seven to nine so it is for the South this is also called
a banana shrub because I don't have a bloom on one right now I think those sold but when the blooms
open up and they are mature they smell like ripe bananas it is the craziest thing ever to have this
beautiful little like saucer magnolia Bloom on it that smells like a ripe banana but this is a
great option something fun something different Stellar Ruby they start out creamy white and
then they turn that beautiful kind of that mauvy rose color come on over here of course we still
have you know lots of other the same things that we've had before um wanted to share again in case
you missed it last week we have got puffer fish hydrangea so puffer fish brand new to the market
front Proven Winners it is what they consider an improved beefed up version of Bobo so this
hydrangea is panicle hydrangea massive massive white blooms on it it is Hardy in zones
three to eight so if you're in the South like us at a 7B if you can give it a little afternoon
shade that would be great otherwise you're just gonna have to make sure it gets nice and watered
well taken care of but you've got those gorgeous creamy white blooms and then on the tips they'll
do this little I don't even know how to a little filigree extra blunt it's really really fun and
at three to five feet tall and wide it is very manageable and can go in a variety of places so
we have those available here so you can come and get them the gardenias the steady as we go
Steady As She Goes do we even have any more of those they sold out so if you saw last week's
Nursery Tour we have we did have the new gardenia from Proven Winners gorgeous one currently has
it sold out we are growing it so we will have it definitely in the spring and summer if we find it
available as a you know as a finished product we will bring it back in but for now just a
little update those are gone Pearl glams let's go look at Pearl glams Pearl Glam is a beauty Berry
and beauty Beauty berries are their main interest is this time of year and I think you can probably
see why so Pearl Glam these are native plants let me get all my information here for you um
in the fall this is when they have their most spectacular show they are going to
be a full sun plant heartian zones five to eight four to five feet tall and wide
and they do they bloom on New Growth so as in the early spring they are deciduous but in the early
spring when they're flushing out you know their new leaves they will start to bloom at the base
let's see at the base of a stem really small little white flowers those white flowers as
the season goes on will turn into these purple berries that is why it is called a beauty Berry
and these berries just get more intense purple very iridescent gorgeous gorgeous color on these
so really fun again think of four seasons of interest and this one will give you you know
your spring summer and fall the foliage also will turn a beautiful shade nice fall Hues to
it so that is a great option that extends into the late fall early winter season so now let's go on
um give you an update while we're passing by the the trough here is just uh yeah it is really
really full if you will remember we planted this in the spring we have the wicked witch coleus the
new watermelon coleus the climbing sweet potato vines something is chewing on it so that's all
right it's the end of the season I'll just let the Little Critters chew on it it'll be okay
and then the portulaca portulaca is really fun because it um Jerry says no sun um the blooms
open and close with the Sun so you can see right now they are closed up pretty tight but here in
just a little bit once the sun gets on them they will open up to these massive huge blooms and the
honeybees will be all over so I just want to give you an update so you can see how massive it is
um those are all annuals so once the cool weather hits or they
start looking really bad then we just pull them out because they are annuals
look at this update on this this is the Evening Rose summerific Evening Rose and it is just a
fantastic perennial hibiscus massive huge really deep pink blooms on it nice dark deep foliage and
these plants have just done magnificently well they're not on irrigation but they do when we
water the plants outside of the nursery that water kind of trickles down this way and man
they are doing great so inside is where we have all of the foul color you can see that
we have we did make that other run to get more plants so we've got this whole table is nothing
but beautiful pansies just as I suspected Ms America mustard sold out like crazy in the
first weekend we got lots more the mustards and your kales those kinds of plants your cabbages
they're going to continue to produce growth throughout the season when you have an a stalk
like this you'll notice it's on the very outside clearly it is not you know a new healthy leaf on
that so what we do is we just come in and just break it off because it's going to continually
make new foliage let's get nice and thick so every once in a while you just gotta go
in there and clean it up it's not a big deal your plant's not dying this is just what they
do so they make a great filler Thriller kind of accent in your containers or your landscape either
one but we've got tons of different pansies we've got mixes look at this is neon violet
look at that bloom on that isn't that beautiful nice deep rich purple looks really like velvet
we've got the blotches this is a really fun one if you remember we did um on the violas we have
Beacon Rose well this is Beacon Rose in a pansy really soft creamy white that pink rose mauve with
that yellow throat in it gorgeous colors so and that would pair of course fantastically well with
that mustard if you wanted to pair it like the violas then this is um and it says that Amber mix
so it has nice soft shades of yellow so you could do that just tons of options we do have of course
um still have our perennials so like this is Magnus this is the purple coneflower
absolute classic plant that is a wonderful late season Bloomer great for your garden
great for your pollinator population in your garden these are Hardy in zones three to eight and
they're going to get to be about three feet tall two feet wide so if you're looking to add in some
perennials these are great options and then we're going to Mosey on over here but look at these mums
huge massive color on them just doing really really well we've got the oranges the purples
look at the purple here isn't that pretty how lovely that is the purples Reds yellows oranges
we've got a few whites left over I think doing doing great and then we have the violas violas
the Johnny jump ups if you will remember little smaller blooms on them but there's more blooms per
plant this is a fun new color it kind of reminds me of that Royal Velvet this is called denim jump
up look at those sweet little faces on that isn't that great so sweet you could pair it with white
you could pair it with yellow if you wanted to or just do it by itself and it would just they would
be so fun and sweet and of course the Citrus mix lots of different shades of yellows kind of creamy
whites oranges in there really bright all of your yellow colors are going to pop out even more
the pollinators love them we've got a bumblebee over there but lots of fun options for you here
at the nursery so we are open Wednesday through Saturday 9 A.M to 2 P.M we our last day of closing
is Saturday November 19th don't worry the videos will still continue to come it's just that our
retail area will be closed so that we can get recharged refocus get some projects done before
we've got open back up into the spring and of course growing plants right so we've got
lots of fun things from now until then plan as always we so appreciate you thank you for all
your love and support y'all have a great day happy gardening we'll see in the next video bye friends