hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and here we are on the patio underneath
the fantastic rose arbor that is filling in quite nicely we thought that we would take
you on an updated tour of this space again you have been with us from the very beginning before
this was only well when this was only just a concept right um if you've watched us you
know that we have been planning for this big party that we are going to have well
the party is this weekend so we have two days left to prepare for this party it has been quite
an adventure um in the fact of all sorts of things have have happened so we're going to kind of give
you an update because you know we keep things real on here at gardening with creekside um
so before i get any further we are getting ready for our september front porch chat and we need you
to submit your questions to us so in the comments below you can ask us any kind of question that you
want whether it's about gardening the business our family whatever and then we will pick questions
and we will do that with our front porch chat so leave those in the comments below okay
we've had two hurricanes come through since the last time we were here in this space the most
recent one was just yesterday afternoon and that was ida that came through um we were not anywhere
near the big parts of her we just got those outer bands got some much-needed rain it was great
everything was fine until yesterday about 4 30 5 o'clock and it was literally the last bit of what
we call the tail of the hurricane came through and man it poured buckets and the wind went crazy the
nursery's fine all those plants are fine what got damaged were my big gorgeous containers that i had
been babying all summer so as we go through i will show you and explain to what happened with that
also when we were in michigan doing all of those tours another part of a hurricane came through
we had a short in the landscape lighting and it fried all the landscape lighting all those
under lights underneath the seating wall and the steps toast gone done so we have had to redo all
of the landscape lighting minus the um the up lighting the spotlights and then you will see
that we got the pathway lights those were not hooked up yet so again lots of information to
give you so we're going to walk through you can see we have these are the pathway lights
and yes the cords are still showing i've got two days before the party folks and so
there's a lot on the to-do list to do these are really simple because they just stick in
in the ground wherever you want and then of course you can see we have the cords running back all to
the main hubs when we had to redo the landscape lighting jerry got different or some additional
ports plug-ins that these will all attach to so we can easily expand this landscape lighting if
we want so the pathway lights are there's about i believe six of them on this part of the path and
we're going to show you what they look like i'll lit up generous gardener rose is doing fantastic
as you were able to see all of this is doing well you can see though some of this angelonia
when the wind came through i mean it just was massive winds so it is a little disheveled
but you know what we're going to go with it it's just we're going to go with it you know
but everything else is doing really well i had put in these pentas two weeks ago
to give me a little pop of color they have bulked up quite nicely got nice and green
we've got some good color on them they're not in full full glory but they've got enough color
on them to make me happy caladiums are still hanging in there and doing quite well and then
this part of the bed is doing great again this vinka is doing amazing so this is
um i'll put the name up on the screen because i don't remember exactly what it's called soiree
pink i believe um it is doing great then we have the little quickfire hydrangea who is putting on
her fall colors and then of course our beloved white chiffon rose of sharon that i have dubbed
rose of christine because christine gave it to me this is her first year in the ground
nice and big i have noticed again she was nice and upright before we got those winds
so just a little heavy blooms on new growth so if you wanted to prune it back a little bit you could
just to kind of take the weight off so it would go up it's doing great now moving on over here um
when we put in these david alston roses i know a lot of you were saying that we needed something
on this wall and again this is my first year growing roses didn't realize kind of quite how
wild and wooly they were going to be so we had i got these three
obelisk from kinsmen garden you know how much i do adore kinsman garden company
i'll link it down below but they come in sets of three these are their small obelisk and so
you can use them for just about anything i've got one two and then i will tackle this one tomorrow
it'll prob this is the scepter the isle it is a beautiful rose jerry come here
i want you to show them this beautiful pink rose it's exquisite but it is definitely the most
vigorous so she's going to have to be tamed down just a little bit especially to get us inside of
this obelisk when i ordered them they said they were back ordered till the end of september and
i was like well that's fine you know i'll just put them on there once they go dormant the winter
well lo and behold they came early so we've kind of had to wrestle them in there the angelonia is
again everybody was looking great until these big huge wins came in and they were just so vigorous
that they kind of opened up so my sweet mama has been helping me kind of thin some things out
so that you can it's not so crazy looking so you kind of see this and then you look down here
that's been untouched and you can't even tell like that there's a boxwood or camellia in there so
we're just kind of thinning these out again you know diamond mountain this is one diamond mountain
one and it has just gone crazy um i will tell you also so remember you saw me do the
deck boxes and i pruned them back really really severe they have done really well some of the
plants didn't make it the super bells some of them just were too far gone so i pulled them out and
then i went back in and i filled in some of the empty spaces so i grabbed a couple of caladiums
chocolate drop coleus and then pentas and that's all i added now i added them obviously with
multiple plants but those this is the same penta that's in the ground
where we just were so that you know ties all that in that chocolate drop coleus is just an amazing
um very vigorous trailing coleus i'm loving it and then of course the caladiums just bring
that in as well so those boxes have really filled in i planted this maybe like
maybe a week ago and so they were very happy to get out of their pots and into these deck boxes
something else that we have done again if you need a project done host a party because it'll
force you to get everything done chop chop so these steps are in we still have to add
um tomorrow morning finish up the caps we'll come all the way down don't worry this is not
going to be left exposed we've got the caps to put down obviously we're going to have to cut
some so those are going down we added the flagstone right here um we didn't want the
grass coming straight up because we've got this bed right here now this part of this
area this bed was a weed nightmare it was it looked awful we had morning glories growing
up it was just disastrous we'll probably go ahead and plant this at some point not doing
it now but this is just to show you if you have a big weedy area and it looks out of control
get the weeds out and put some fresh mulch down it cleans it up it tidies it up and it looks great
this tea olive right here is doing magnificently well it will not be long before she is in bloom
and we will have some delicious smelling blossoms on her again we'll landscape this
at some point but for now it's neat and tidy and that's all i care about now what i was sick over
with ida coming through yesterday afternoon were my urns because look at this footage
i was on the back porch in the little corner taking this video of the wind and the rain
that came through and my poor urns these grasses just basically split wide open because of all
the wind and the rain and they just can't handle all that and they would just i mean they just oh
you know how much i have baby these things all summer long so what my mama and i did this morning
was we took this is the same little black tubing that i use
for the roses and basically we cinched up the grass like a big ponytail it was starting as
the sun was coming up and getting on it and it was drying out it was starting to come back
up but i want to make sure that these are really upright and not horribly floppy like they were
right after the storm came through so the idea is we're going to leave the tubing on
all through tomorrow and probably up till saturday morning and then we'll cut it and we're hoping
that they'll be more upright we just thought they needed just a little bit of help to stand up
once they dry out and get the sun on them then hopefully they'll be more upright because
i just can't replace these if i took out the grass the whole thing's going to come out
and these things are just gorgeous and beautiful and i do not want to lose them
until sunday morning they go sunday morning fine they get me through saturday night
now the next big event that we have done is the steps the steps are now finally going in
and again we because of all the landscape lighting had to be replaced
these are the under the steps we couldn't do the steps until we got the lighting situated
lighting is all done and we've started to put the steps in if you've watched us you know that these
are the different steps than what we showed you last time because thanks to covid and
all the other stuff those nice big pieces those steps that we had we couldn't get any more
so we had two that we have five steps so we had to go to plan
plan z it's not even plan b anymore it's plan z um so what we did is we went with a dark gray
coping on the edge then we went with a um a gray it's it's this is this exact block but a different
color and so it's gray and so we're going to work our way up jerry got the first step in
this afternoon so those are in we're going to be out here first thing early tomorrow
morning to get the rest of them done those will go in and then of course don't fret
all the caps will go on the steps so this will all be covered this is not the final product
trust me um so like i said i've got two days left to do all those little nitpicky things
like i'm going to clean up my caladium hanging baskets you know how it is you got to wash the
porch off doing all these things because we are hosting this party basically it's
a wedding shower but it's co-ed and it's for couples so we're calling it a wedding party now
they're not having the wedding here um but this is our sweet beloved ryland and mary claire they
both have worked for us um for several years they were dating before they came to us so we can't
claim that we were you know the matchmakers but they are getting married and they are
just precious precious people to us and so we want to celebrate their upcoming marriage
and we're just going to have a grand old time out here fellowshipping and eating and celebrating
their upcoming nuptials i am the hostess with the mostest and i want to make sure that everything
is just so so that is the plan this is what we're going to do of course i will take some pictures
once we have it all set up and we'll probably come back through and do a final
grand reveal once everything is put together but we are going to show you
what the space looks like lit up with all this great new landscape lighting so stay tuned for
that jerry's going to get the drone out and have some fun with that but as always thank you so much
for gardening with creekside the adventure of the patio continues hopefully we're almost done with
the adventure of the patio jenny's ready to be done it'll be almost what two years since this
fall that we actually like began this whole idea of this project we've come a long way
we're ready to wrap it up and get on with it as always thanks so much for growing with creekside
y'all have a fantastic day put your questions in the comments below see you next time bye friends
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