Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and welcome to the final
nursery tour for 2021. yes it is um mid-December and the nursery is only going to be open this
coming Friday and Saturday this is going to be our last nursery tour until probably like mid-February
of 2022 in that crazy now of course we're still going to have videos and we're going to tell you
all the things that are going on in the nursery but as far as like a nursery tour so that you
can see what is growing blooming and thriving here this will be it until we come back in mid-February
and the nursery opens again so with that being said all of my local people if you are looking
for some last-minute either Christmas gifts for people in your life or um want to stock up on some
amendments soils those kinds of things we've got some great deals coming up
so make sure you stay tuned we're just going to walk through and kind of show you what's
going on in the nursery again this is early mid December and things are winding down now
with that being said it's also like 50 something degrees here first thing in the morning hopefully
the cooler weather is headed back our way but that is life in north carolina it could be
28 one day and 60 the next you never know we are standing here near the trial beds if
you remember we get the proven winners annuals every year and other trial plants from different
plant companies and so we had created these two a larger bed and then a smaller bed off to my side
to display those trial plants and we have just this weekend put these beds to rest for the
winter so what did we do some ideas that you could be doing in your garden right now first of all
because the first thing we did was of course was remove all of the annuals so because we've had
several really cold nights that zap those annuals so those have been removed if you remember we had
heart of the jungle elephant ear on this side and we had coffee cups on this side with those freezes
it completely zapped all of the foliage so we just simply cut them down to the ground you can
probably see the stump of the coffee cups a little bit better so we just cut it all the way down to
the ground and then we came in here and edged the side of the beds with our handy dandy edger
and added mulch to the bed and that was it so with these elephant ears we are on the border as far
as it being perennials they came back beautifully last year and that's all we did cut them back just
add some mulch around to the side and leave it as such now i will tell you if jerry can show you
this you see that little green speck right there that is the new supertunia jazzberry from proven
winners y'all we have had multiple nights like 28 27 and she's still there now is she blooming
no but does she have some flower buds on her she sure does so again this is why it's a trial garden
because we're going to see what she does so that's something you can be doing just clean up your beds
get them neat and tidy i like to add mulch this time of the year because especially if you have
perennials you can add that mulch it cleans up the bed it makes it look neat it helps reduce
the winter weeds so forth and then in the spring when these elephant ears come back i'm not having
to fight the elephant ears and figure out where to put the mulch and where not to because they'll
just come back through it all right now let's see we're going to tiptoe this way you can clearly
see the sun is coming up this morning so we're might be fighting a little bit of the sun but
it is still a great time especially here in these warmer climates to go ahead and
get some shrubs and trees and perennials in the ground we have got plenty of planting time we're
planting still at the house we're doing landscape installs so don't freak out and think oh it's too
late no it's actually a great time to do it even though like this rose of sharon has gone dormant
the foliage is gone right but the roots are very active in the winter as far as growing
and getting established so don't let you know some bare sticks freak you out we've got plenty
of time to go ahead and get these guys in the ground same thing with hydrangeas right
they're sticks they're not dead they're sleeping their roots are very happy and will be growing all
winter long now speaking of such if you were going to be planting or you want to go ahead and prepare
for this next growing season of 2022 then we are running some specials on the proven winners
potting soil so this is a great time to go ahead and stock up we have a limited supply of this that
is going to be on this special but it is a what size bag is this a one and a half cubic foot bag
for 9.99 so if you know that you're going to be planting lots of containers next year or any kind
of containers next year this is a great time to go ahead and get it all you have to do is throw it in
a closet your garage your basement somewhere where it doesn't get rained on 9.99 a bag fantastic
price come get it while supplies last and then another deal that we're going to be running
we did this last fall we're going to do it again this year is the land and sea compost from espoma
guys this stuff is great it is amazing we're going to be running this for 12.99 a bag this
is a one cubit foot bag this is great to go ahead it's a perfect time of year to go ahead
and top dress your flower beds and or if you know that you're going to be doing some nice
good containers come spring remember that little trick that i i found out that you shared with you
about in the bottom one third of your container to put the land and sea and then put the proving
winners potting soil on top and your plants absolutely love that combination so proven winners
99 in a bag 9.99 in a bag that's a lot of nines and the landon sea is 12.99 a bag again we're
open only this friday and saturday before we're closed for the season so come get it and free
come get these burlap bags these are the bags that all the unique stone is packed in
these make fantastic frost protection come you know late winter early spring these are absolutely
free take as many as you want if you can use them if you can give them to friends just come load
them up we need to get these out of here so come get the free bags one little tip that i like to do
on these bags is especially like for hydrangeas because they can be you know trying to put this
on top of a hydrangea can be tricky because a lot of times when you have those frost it's also windy
so what i'll do is these bags are already split on one end right so it's already open
i'll go ahead and cut it on another end so that let's say this whole end is open so it acts like
a little bit of a hood so then you can kind of take two of them and hook them on the hydrangeas
so these are fantastic and of course you can use them for crafts just go to pinterest and do burlap
bag crafts oh my word it's like a black hole so it's a great thing but we also have a beautiful
selection of the aqua pots aqua pots remember are the self-watering containers this is a beautiful
collaboration between michael carr who is the artist who designs all the pottery jack barnwell
who came up with the concept of that self-watering container and then proven winners who does the
marketing distribution of them so these are here if you have a gardener in your life and you're
like i really don't know what to get them come get an aquapot they come in four different sizes
they have um let's see if i can find okay this might be a little bit better over here
we have the tall vase and the short vase they're the same shape different sizes and then you have
the large flat rimmed and then the small flat rim depending on your space or wherever you're
going to put it will determine what size that you need but we have a whole host of colors the
volcanic or milky blue is definitely one of the most popular ones here at creekside we
have the techno white that has the ribbing in it then we have these beautiful quilted ones
this big one is one of the largest ones that we have so the white quilted more technos the antique
white lily leaf i believe is what it's called these are gorgeous very classic gorgeous colors
aquamarine i believe trying to get all these names right aquamarine and you can see because these are
handmade in vietnam and each one is unique that you can even though these are technically the same
color you will get some variation in color between them so that's why it's great to come on out
and pick out the ones you want then the matte black i love the matte black very classic very
um gives a little bit of a modern feel to it and then over here we do have the techno blue
it is still that beautiful cobalt blue with those lines in it so we have those as well
we have plenty of them so come get them again if you have a gardener in your life they will love
these because in the springtime you only have to water it about maybe once every two to three weeks
excuse me and then even in the heat of the summer in the south once a week that's all
you have to do and then of course the strawberry planters strawberry planters succulent planters
these are from michael carr they're not the self-watering but they are beautiful
containers that will hold eight grande containers around and then either a gallon or a six inch
container in the middle fantastic for putting succulents in there so great christmas gift
idea trust me the gardener in your life will love it they're amazing we've used them for two years
it hadn't been three years it's been two years i believe they're amazing greenhouse this is
probably the first time you have seen the greenhouse with the sides all the way down
jerry went ahead and put the sides down because you will remember that we just did the video
showing you where we had the concrete laid at the end of the day jerry's like you know i'm
going to go ahead and lower down those sides because we don't need a deer walking through
the freshly poured concrete that would not have been good so that's what it looks like
we'll open up the doors and let you see of course also closing up the greenhouse really helped
because we've had these bright sunny days and that heat helps to cure the concrete even faster
when we finish that video we talked about that the guys were going to come back and put in cut lines
in here they did that so this is of course to help prevent it from cracking so these are some some
expansion lines you can maybe tell that there's an echo in here because it's nice and empty um
if you see any little footprints those were where the guys were when they came to do those cuts
that's their little footprints they're not in the concrete it's just the dust so i know some of you
are like they walked and put footprints in your concrete they didn't it's just the dust and it's
just showing up but it's just been fantastic obviously we can walk on it they told us about
five to seven days before we put any kind of like heavy equipment in here so heavy equipment's not
going to be too much of an issue other than what jerry's going to start doing is the electrical
and the plumbing but even then it's not going to be heavy equipment but if we wanted to drive
the bobcat in here we could we could drive the polaris the kubota all of that would do fine
um i will say too i didn't because the guys stayed here until gosh late in the afternoon finishing up
all those little details but one little detail that they did jerry you swing around here i want
to show them the edge so if you remember when they were doing the form down here on the door
of course they had those two by fours and it was at a 90 degree angle right it was like this they
came back and rounded the edges for us so now it's nice and smooth just that that nice little touch
makes all the difference in the world so it is ready and what we're going to start thinking about
is um getting nails up so that doesn't end up in a tire um we'll probably go
ahead and begin thinking of how we're going to display plants in here our arrangement for the
tables and so forth and so on we're thinking about putting display pieces out here for
for purchase you know have plants on here some sort of like low tiered stand that folks can come
and shop plants right here because if you're in a nursery or any kind of retail space you want to
maximize all of your space so we will be doing that have to reconfigure a little bit out here as
far as the tables but yeah i mean pretty pretty good now also talked about trees and shrubs
planting them still a great time to get those perennials in the ground so we have got the proven
winners the berry treasure both the pink and the red strawberries available um the serendipity
allium i know a bunch of y'all especially this spring man we could not keep that in stock
so we have those um still have some like ajugas and salvias all of these are perennials
that are great to go ahead and get in the ground wonderful get them in the ground let them get
established we still have a little bit of pansies left so we'll be running some deals so if you need
some pansies come on out we'll wheel and deal with you we want to get these pansies out of our
hand so if you're local come come on by and we can talk pansies um stick that right there now
a couple of two more things really that i want to talk about again we have got lots
of those shade loving perennials already have already gone dormant for example
like these hostas right so this is guacamole a beautiful fantastic hosta as soon as you get a
hard freeze or a hard frost this is what's going to happen to your hosta foliage perfectly fine
this is a completely normal situation so what you're going to do is it'll just it just pulls off
because it's so dead it just literally just pulls right off you can still plant this this is a great
time to get these in the ground hostas are extremely cold hardy so for example this guacamole
is to zone three zone three to nine our 7b winner is nothing for this thing so go ahead
if you want to add some shade perennials to or any perennials really to your garden now is a great
time to do it don't let it freak you out as far as what they look like these are the sun kings again
all the foliage dies completely back not a problem they are great you're buying the root system
not the foliage at this point right that's the great thing about perennials we also have let's go
walk around this way unique stone so talking about christmas gifts ideas for those folks in
your life that maybe are a little hard to buy for we still have unique stone pieces available
for sale so these again make fabulous christmas presents for those people in your life
we have one basket boy left one's already gone one basket boy is left very very popular
if you have a chicken lover in your family then we have got the roosters and the miss
prissy's the cute little i mean they're just such that's one thing i love about
unique stone is they have such personality they are just some of the sweetest little
folks little friends to have in your garden it's fantastic we have one sassy
frog left i just pulled it up out of the pine needles because it was kind of blending in
so we have a sassy frog left we have the bird bath we have this bird bath this exact bird bath
over at the house underneath the crepe myrtles where i have my bird feeders oh my gosh the birds
are loving this bird bath i've had chickadees and robins and tufted tit mouses so this is a great
thing to add to your garden so we have that we have this is the 18th century urn i believe it's
called that is for sale and then of course the beautiful hummingbird troughs both in the trough
and the square if y'all don't buy these these might end up in my garden this winter because
i love these they are they're just beautiful and it's i like having the different
shape instead of like an iron or a round bowl to go with a square or a rectangle it
just brings a completely different dimension to your garden a little bit of a different interest
it's fantastic and then we have two of the pineapples and two of the forest gnomes
so stinking cute so come get these again if you've got somebody in your life you're
like i don't know what to get them come see us we'll take care of you and of course we do um
gift certificates so if you're like well we don't have it they don't have a space for something
or maybe they're a little picky they're a little choosy i was talking to a friend yesterday and
he said i've learned to give my wife options i just don't buy it because she has an exact idea
of what she wants so a gift certificate would be a fantastic idea in that situation but i think
we're going to wrap it up for today as always thank you so much for guarding with creekside
if you're local come see us friday and saturday nine to three before we close down for the season
you all have a great day we don't talk to you soon merry christmas bye friends
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