hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i
am jenny and welcome to our weekly nursery
update it is an absolutely gorgeous fall day here at creekside nursery in
dallas north carolina we're going to walk through some of the
shrubs that are just magnificent right now then we've got
gorgeous mums and pansies to show you if you
remember a couple weeks ago a month ago we planted up a lot of baby
pansies you will not be you will be amazed you
won't believe how amazing they look right now and then
at the end i want you to stay tuned because we have
a fun little thing that we are doing here at the nursery for all of our
fantastic visitors so make sure you stay tuned for
that so come on let's go take a little tour down
here of course we hit these last week the limelight
hydrangea trees this is what you call a hydrangea standard
form it is a one of those wonderful limelight hydrangeas that are just
wonderful they produce these gorgeous massive
white panicle blooms and it has been pruned
and trained to be in a tree form so this is great
for a small bed or a focal point in a bed like a small
tree off the side of your house this is fantastic
love the limelight hydrangeas both the tree
and just the good old regular hydrangea of course we always are so popular
with the purple daydreams loropetulum from the southern living plant
collection these are wonderful we've been selling a ton of
these lately because folks just love them they only get to be
like a three by three loropetalum are extremely easy
low maintenance and along with this great distillium
now a lot of times people will ask for an
evergreen shrub that's not too big maybe they don't want to do a boxwood well
this is a distillium this is blue cascade and it
is going to be about a three to four both ways and it's hardy in zones six
to nine so let me show you the tag because i know y'all love some tags
it is sunny so we might be dealing with some shadows so please forgive us
on that but this is a great one it's wonderful for your foundation plantings
so near your house or if you're looking to cover a lot of
area because they are wider than they are tall so that's fantastic
of course the encores are in bloom radiance abelia yet another
wonderful foundation plant it isn't evergreen
it's nice and soft this time of year it's going to put on these
little white blooms and come a little closer for jerry
this is a really fun one because it has that great variegation of the leaf
abelias do really really well here in the south they handle our heat and
humidity like a champ and there's tons of
different varieties of abelias so if you're looking for a great
small again it's not going to get very tall
it's a nice little wide little natural globe and then of course you cannot beat
look at this now this one is really heavily variegated
it's got a leaf in it but this is a laura pedlum
from proven winters and this is jazz hands
variegated now if you look at this you might think oh my goodness what is
wrong with that plant you either think that or you think oh my goodness i love
this plant so jazz hands variegated clearly
has can have some really strong coloration to it
it will have a nice green it'll have a burgundy it has
pink tips on it and then of course it has these splashes of
white so did you get the tag there for everybody now this one is going to
be a bit of a larger size it's going to be like a four
to six feet tall and wide and lower petalums are
roughly in zones they're a hot weather plant
seven to nine so lower petalumas do really well for us we have never had an
issue with our winters getting too cold for lower petalums
great another evergreen option for you i do want to show you because
they should be at least they were last week
they had tons of blooms on them now if you're standing here and looking
at your you may be like jenny that's just like a
holly bush but it's not a holly bush this is a tea
olive it is a different one than what we
traditionally show you on the videos it does have a bit of a more of a jagged
leaf kind of that holly esque leaf to it
but tucked in and hopefully there's some in here
you know i never oh gosh you know this is the thing with live
television you never know what you're gonna find
now do you believe it oh okay i found some
come over here now not even a week ago these things were absolutely covered in
blooms but i'm gonna let jerry get in here
tea olives have those little tea tiny and yes they are little
white blooms but they smell heavenly very much like an orange honeysicle
jasmine flavor smell to them again last week they were massive buds on them
but we did hit some hot temperatures so they're probably kind of freaked out
once we get cool again they'll probably flush back out with some blooms
this is another abelia can you tell we're underneath all the poplar trees
the poplars here are dropping their leaves like crazy so
hence all the crunching and the all the leaves on the plants but
this is kaleidoscope adelia
so now you may think it looks a lot like the um radiance abelia but kaleidoscope
does exactly what its name says it will turn
colors with the season so jerry zooms in here
you can see the different seasons of color
on it so once we start getting some more consistent cool weather i mean like this
yesterday was like 85 i think so north carolina it's all over the place
it will start to pick up those reds burgundies
orange colors to it love it so if you're looking for a nice pop of color
then kaleidoscope is a great option for you again like all
abelias it's an evergreen here um all right we're gonna go this way
because the beauty berries pearl glam i mean we just can't talk
about these things enough look at this and let jerry get in here right quick
oh look at those jerry right here look how glorious they are just
massive berries on them the birds do love to come and eat on the berries so
if you are a bird lover like i am then these are fantastic they do bloom
on new growth so you can easily prune them
at the beginning of the spring every year to kind of keep their shape you
don't have to worry about cutting off last year's blooms love the
proglam we've done these in lots and lots of videos
so you can always go back and check out some other ones for details on that
but let's go on and head up to the pansies and the mums
of course candy corn look at candy corn sorry spirea
from proven winners it's candy corn because
the new foliage is that nice red it'll get some yellow and orange to it
just does fantastic and you can see how pretty it is
paired with that purple daydream lower petalum gorgeous color contrast
to them lovely lovely lovely all right so as you can see behind me
we have got mums in all of their glory they are
gorgeous they are full um they are ready to be taken home
for those of you folks who were going to be thinking about coming to creekside
this weekend this is going to be a great weekend to
come see us the weather is going to be fantastic it is going to be gorgeous
last weekend was rainy and a hot mess this weekend
look at this i mean you have got purples that are just popping open you
have got purples that are in full bloom and
massive again i know i show you this every week
and this is not the same mum but look at this
this is not an ordinary mum this is gorgeous
absolutely beautiful and i love mum's had that little
earthy smell to it i love it it just says fall to me
gorgeous the oranges are starting to crack
their color this particular variety of orange
when you first see the buds you think oh my goodness that's a red
but as it opens up you can see that it is a beautiful orange this is
for me this is the prime time to buy my mums
i still have the vast majority are still buds but i can clearly see what it's
going to look like and it's just gorgeous this way you can
enjoy this mom to the absolute fullest like you're not going to miss
any blooms on it so that is a beautiful one
and then of course we've got the reds the yellows
are just massive and we've got tons of them this isn't all the mums remember we
are the grower so they're up in a whole other location
but pansies all right let me find the ones
jerry's gonna have to help me remember are these hours
all of them so all of these that you see are the ones that we started from those
little tea tiny plugs and we stuck them in two in a into a
hole but look at this this is gorgeous we've
got the lavenders we have the whites we have the dark
purple yellows all sorts of neat ones let's see
if i can grab i'll let jerry come over here and zoom
in this is a gorgeous one oh it's over here jerry's pointing me
it's over here here we go so let him zoom on
zoom in on these this is called solar flare if you were looking for a
fall color and a pansy well you just can't go wrong with this i
mean each one is a little different they're not going to be all the exact
same but when you put them together in a mix in the ground and the pat you
know in the landscape in a container just glorious
absolutely glorious i know some of you really like the ones
what we call with the blotch so the blotch a pansy with the blotch
simply means that it has that dark center so
she's still opening up but that dark center is considered a blotch
so we have multiple different kind of blotches in here
just glorious one so you've got all the pansies we still have some trailing
pansies we've got all the components so come on
over here um see what we have
don't forget daylilies if you're looking for day lily
i know you're thinking jenny it's october why am i planting daylilies
because you're planting for next year that's why
remember you don't have to think ahead just a little bit
when you're gardening just because it's fall doesn't mean you can't be thinking
about spring and next summer vice versa in the spring
plan a little bit for the fall so we have got
we haven't talked about this i want to show you this
the lavender so this is proven winners um the sweet romance lavender
these are ones that we grew from plugs these are really hard to get
they're hard for us to get as a grower they're hard to get
in order for us to sell them to you it smells
magnificent and just like lavender so we have got lavender if you're looking
for it we have it and then this is not the
proven winters it is a great english lavender so we have that
available too um you'll do an update on the
wheelbarrow let's do a update on the wheelbarrow
here oh we disturbed the butterfly
oh she came back so you can see how it is just absolutely filling in
the plectranthus is an absolute all of her glory
if she doesn't even make it through the winter it is okay because she is putting
on quite the show right now and i am very happy about that the
ornamental kale is turning white the trailing pansies
are really going to town it is just feeling in really really
nicely love this completely different
fall scheme than what you're used to jerry's pointing me over here
so we're gonna go to the pines look at this don't you love this i know
we showed you this a little bit before but we got fresh pine needles out
it just looks so nice you know if it has to be functional it doesn't mean it
can't be pretty it's very pretty it's doing really well
um the mahonia we've had a lot of people
ask about mahonia because mahoney air right now
is starting to bloom mahonia is a great evergreen shrub for the shade
to me it has a very much kind of like bamboo-esque
look to it but it is you can see putting on
its little flower buds a beautiful yellow color to it just going to be a
nice little hint of some color so if you need evergreen
shrub for your shade mahonia might be a great option for you
this is going to be about a three foot tall shrub
so that is a great option red rover red rover red rover we just filmed a
video with red rover last night
so i want you to stay tuned for a really unique different one that i
absolutely love fall container using red rover
and i'll give you a hint i didn't use any pansies or mums in this video
but red rover is a ucarella from proven winners
it is a perennial so that means it's going to come back every year
it's only going to be six to eight inches tall
it is a foliage plant but it will do little spikes of blooms
and it is hardy in zones four to nine red rover has gorgeous fall
color right now just brings a nice little different hue
to your bed your container wherever you want to
put it
where are we going hopscotch oh yeah and i know a lot of people we have some
available right now in the early early spring we'll have a
lot of people come or either call the nursery
and ask if we have a snowball bush so now the
snowball bushes what they're really referring to are a type of
viburnum and this is popcorn viburnum i don't really have a tag that i can
show you but this will be a nice large shrub i think it's around in
that six to eight foot range but in early
spring it'll put on these massive balls of white blooms
it's very reminiscent of a hydrangea so when people call i'm like are you really
want a snowball bush or do you just want a white hydrangea
sometimes they go either way but this is popcorn viburnum we're going to put
it into our landscape but just so you know
local people if you're looking for them we've got them
then the ones this is another fun and games you know proven winners they have
the best names for their plants so obviously this
is a lot smaller when we just started it but this is
fun and games hopscotch to give you that tag again it's going to be zones four to
nine but a different color to it so
ucarella is great for that shade part shade
area of your bed really nice of course we have the
proven winter's bloomathon azaleas they're hanging out over here but i want
to show you all sorts of fun things come on over
here remember i told you if you come to the nursery
we have a fun little addition that we want you to take part in
because with our spread on social media and our reach
just going larger and further out as we grow we thought it would be
really fun to do this little ditty
to show where people are coming from because
now every weekend if not every day that we're open
we have folks coming to us from multiple hours away not just local here
in our vicinity but like from states away
so we said you know what because as jerry says i have a memory of a nat i
want to document and remember where all of you
lovely float folks are coming from so over here at the barn
we got a map and when you come to visit us
we want you to come on into the barn come over to the map and we just started
this last weekend but we want you to take a pen that we
have and stick it wherever you are from so
we have got of course our local folks but we have got folks from georgia
durham north carolina multiple people in virginia
one of our folks from durham they are actually are from vermont
so we have one all the way up there at vermont but we've had people
florida can't forget florida like i said this was just last weekend
so we would love to have this filled with pens of all
of your home towns so when you come and visit us make sure
that you come into the barn and put your pen in
in your hometown we still have tons of bulbs
amaryllis bulbs all sorts of fantastic things now is the time
to be thinking about that for your spring flowers
but i think that's it we covered it at all jerry
he says yes all right y'all have a great weekend
know that we have got tons of videos headed your way like the content is just
exploding right now and we're trying to turn out videos
as fast as we can so y'all stay tuned there's a lot of fun projects ahead
as always thank you so much for gardening with creekside we'll see you
next time bye friends