Hey friends today is a very exciting day here at Creekside Nursery we had a fantastic delivery of
The Proven winter annuals so you just saw a whole little back story of the delivery now I will tell
you here we are at the beginning of February and I think a lot of at least the east coast is like
this it is cold it is wet it is nasty this is not really the day that you're thinking of like
spring in color but that is what we're going to be talking about today because behind me we have
a hundred hundred more than 100 trays of gorgeous little tiny little baby proven winter annuals so
I'm excited to share with you some of the things that we got today because I think it's really
important as a gardener to understand where your plants come from we order all of our proven winter
plants from our friends at Pleasant View Gardens in Loudon New Hampshire and they do an amazing
job of growing these annuals for us Lenny is our driver who brings us the plants y'all he's amazing
I tell you a good truck driver is like worth his weight in gold he is fantastic if you are a grower
and you're like well how in the world do you get The Proven Winners truck to come deliver plants
to you we have figured out the secret to that because for so many years right we were small and
we were growing and we took our orders in like little small increments every couple of weeks
in order to get that The Proven Winners truck from Pleasant views to come to you you have to order
at least a minimum of a hundred trays of annuals and then of course be within that delivery zone
of the grower truck so because we did order at least 100 trays we are in North Carolina
within their grower truck delivery Zone that is how we get The Proven Winners truck to come to
us we didn't get the fancy trailer today as Lenny said there was a heat bless his heart he had some
flat tire issues on this whole entire trip and because of that and our weather and just being
so incredibly nasty we had him deliver it to the retail portion of the greenhouse because in order
to get up to production on that 18-wheeler it would almost guarantee that he got stuck because
we've had so much rain and we're so saturated so he delivered them down there and then we shuttled
them up here so Lenny is fantastic so if you're in Lenny's delivery Zone I know that you know what
I'm talking about because he is amazing we will see him again in two weeks for our other delivery
without further Ado let's talk about some fun plants we you just saw us the other day get our
hanging baskets ready we did close to 500 hanging baskets both the 16 inch cocoa line baskets and
then the 10 inch green hanging baskets the plastic pots so what is going to go in that well some of
those that are going to go in there are the proven winter recipes and we have actually four different
recipes that we're going to use this year we have four one's a double so that makes five
Jerry's doing me hand signals there's four different recipes but there's five groups of them
no there's five recipes oh goodness so we have okay Charmed Life which is
um the mini Vistas basically so to give you an idea of course these are all like baby plants and
so they're not flowering right now um but let me show you what it looks like when it comes to us as
a grower we get these beautiful plants like look at that we'll try to zoom in on that so this is a
sorry we're trying to work here you go this is a supertunia mini Vista hot pink this is going to
be a beautiful hot pink petunia that is that mini Vista that we love and adore so we will
take these so in that charm life is the mini Vista hot pink then we have the sangria the
sweet sangria and we have the pink star so a lot of Paints in there but you can see we have the
three trays here on the ground so we will take two of each of these plants and put them in the
hanging basket so in that 16 inch hanging basket you're actually going to have six plants three
colors but six plants so that's why we've gone ahead and separated them because like right now
I don't know that anybody I mean I'm sure there could be somebody maybe a master grower that's
done this forever could look and go oh well that's pink star oh well that's you know minivista hot
pink well they're not blooming I can tell you that it's a petunia but I can't tell you which
one so we try to keep them all separate so we have the charm life one then we have the
I'll probably get this wrong Grand Traverse has Bordeaux is that right Grand Traverse so then we
have Grand Traverse and in Grand Traverse we have our beloved Bordeaux which is just this
lovely green tray right here so it has Bordeaux it has the mini Vista no excuse me this diffuscia
so not lots of beautiful colors and then it also has the black cherry so nice kind of dark Rich
colors on that one that we love this is one of our more popular ones and that's why we started
growing black cherry supertunia black cherry by itself is because of this combo and we really like
it then next we have the what would be the next one Jerry this is the Indigo I'll put the names
up there for you because some of these are new to us but it has many of us to Indigo it has the
Violet star and oh is this the Misty Seas I think it is I think this is Miss DC's so Misty Seas has
the mini Vista white mini Vista Indigo and then the mini Vista Violet which are fantastic so
the great thing about the proven winter recipes is that Proven Winners has trialled these plants
together so they will have like the same sunlight requirements the same water the same fertilizer
all those kinds of things and they grow really well together there's not going to be one plant
that just dominates and takes over the whole container so that's nice when we get these
recipes we don't have to try to create something on our own then we're going into the one with
dreamsicle living on the edge there's too many names in my head going around so this is why we
have Jerry that he can remember all this stuff so living on the edge we've done that one for
years as well really really popular and that's the one we have but when we have two sets of we
have two sets of that so it has the Super Bells um dreamsicle it has the royal velvet and the really
red supertunium now you may be going but Jenny you just said they had the same water requirements and
you've got two supertunias and a super Bell I absolutely do so in a hanging basket even
though super Bells tend to like to be more dry like they hate to have wet feet and supertunias
can have more they can handle that dampness in a hanging basket in a container they will both do
really really well I probably would stay away from putting this combo in the ground where I
live because I have clay soil and that dreamsicle is not going to do well so it'll kind of Peter
out and then your Royal Velvet and your supertune you're really red would do well in that one a new
one we have this year as far as a combo that we're going to try because typically we've always stuck
with like all super Tunas or the super Bells like that this year we're going to do one and this has
the supertunion raspberry Rush which is a gorgeous bi-color has truly that that um raspberry color to
it than our beloved Goldilocks rocks bidens and you can see that it has little buds on it we have
grown all of these plants individually but never in a container before so it has the Goldilocks
rocks the raspberry Rush supertunia and then it has a super Bean a white out so it'll really
have some really fun different textures to it and then of course those beautiful bold colors of that
it might be it might be but it has that white that yellow and then that like raspberry color
really super super nice and then we have is this the same nope this is something by is this is that
the dreamsicle Yep they're living on the ages so did I get them all yeah I got them all uh
trying to keep me straight it's a full-time job around here folks and if you hear a noise the
folks our fellas are finishing up the ceiling in the annex so there's a tractor going there's air
compressors there's a heater there's all sorts of things happening on around here
some of my most favorite plants in the world coleus and if I had three hands I could hold
all three at one time but I don't so here we have wicked witch this is all the Color Blaze right so
we have wicked witch with its absolutely glorious gorgeous color I am a massive fan of coleus
particularly the colorblaze series if you do not have coleus or have grown coleus I would
highly encourage you to try it because the Color Blaze they can do sun or shade so this is wicked
witch this is a relatively new into the line three years ago yeah then newly new ore is new
is just almost a black I mean stunning y'all so again color blades can do sun or shade and
trust me I have done it in both locations and they do glorious they are late to bloom because
you don't buy coleus for the blooms you get it for the foliage you want that beautiful foliage
so they're late to bloom or bolt or however you want to call it nice big presence depending on
the coleus will depend on your mature size but like the wicked witch and the newly new war and
even Apple Brandy I mean they can get like three feet tall just stunning and then Apple Brandy is
relatively new if I don't drop it relatively new as well really nice chartreuse color with
that reddish color veining on the tips and the stems just brings a nice big pop of color and
especially when you pair them together like they just play off of each other really really well
this is just the first round so if you're like well Jenny I don't see you know
um whatever your favorite is like coleus trust me we are going to have plenty of coleuses this
is just the first round look at these little baby grasses so much fun so here we have let
me show you a little difference here get some samples going on the tut Series right so we have
King Tut baby Tut here is a prince Tut grass these are fantastic annual grasses they love the water
so you can use them in a pond really damp areas so prints Tut and then the new clean cut so that can
really show you the difference here they are the same size but they're going to have very different
kind of structure and Habit to them clean cut is a brand new this year it is going to be much shorter
very open can you see how much more open and Airy it is it will still have the traditional little
Tufts on the end like the prince does really nice I use this in Landscapes a ton last year nice fun
kind of whimsical presence so we've got this again this is only the first round although the
prince Tut this might be it because we got four trays of that and we will pot them up in various
various different um size containers so that's another thing as a grower when we order when we
placed our order for all of these annuals back in the fall because that's how soon we have to
plan we have to go ahead and say okay well these plants are going to go in a hanging basket these
plants are going to go in a gallon and these are going to go in a grande so we have to make that
determination months and months before we ever plant these so that is why when Jerry and I have
these in here of course when you're loading them in here you're just trying to get them in and get
them out of the cold and get them into some heat he and I then came back and sorted all of these
plants so like you'll notice over here these are all the super bells and the supertunias and we
have them and so if it's a row then like these are the same plant right so this is super Bells yellow
right here um we only have one tray of whatever color that is so when we're looking so like we
have three trays of the supertunia Picasso in purple we had three trays of supertunion mini
this to White right so we kind of separate them so tomorrow when we are beginning to pot up we're
going to even separate them even more and go this whole section will go in Grande's this section is
going to go in gallons this section is going to go in hanging baskets because we have learned from
um and just experience that you've got to be super organized and you have to know exactly
where your plants are going to go otherwise it could get a little hairy at times let's just say
that so really fun and again this is not meant to be like an in-depth look at each particular plant
how you're going to use it in the mature size and all that we're just excited to show you what is
happening as a grower here in North Carolina and getting plants fun new ones before we I could you
know me I could sit here and talk about I could go through each one of these plants and tell
you how beautiful they are but we have the new surefires let me make sure I get the right ones
um yes so here we go so the Surefire begonias if you again it's like coleus if you've never
grown Surefire begonias you need to do it these things are amazing again sun or shade I have
done them both landscape or containers I have done them both and they are the easiest plant
to grow this year they're introducing two new colors this is the Surefire cherry cordial and
you can see that beautiful dark dark foliage and it will have beautiful bright red flowers on it
this will get to be about depends on if you put in the landscape it's going to get a little bit
bigger right than in a container but somewhere in that I want to say like 18 18 24 inches beautiful
you don't have to deadhead them really nice and then one of these is the Sure Fire White trying to
see if this one is it we also have the double UPS nope that's it that's double up white anyway one
of these in here is the Surefire wipe which again is like the other surefires but beautiful bright
green foliage and white flowers so we have got the new persimmon Super Junior persimmon is in here
and we have the new Minis so we had the mini Vista Scarlet I got a frog in my throat all of
a sudden um the movie this is Scarlet the mini Dusty yellow and then the mini Vista midnight
they all are in here so we got the new mini this to Yellow the mini this is Scarlet and the mini
Vista midnight really fun colors so if you're not close to Creekside and you are looking for these
contact your local Garden Center go ahead and do it now because they're going to be placing their
orders and looking for these plants and they want to know what you the customer wants so you know
encourage them to try some of these new plants but as a general rule just remember the difference
between supertunias and super Bells a super Tanya is a petunia right a super Bell is a caliber KOA
caliber coas all of them do great in containers and hanging baskets and window boxes all of that
right but the caliber coas don't like to have wet feet so for us we do not put in the landscape in
fact the only time I've ever heard success is like from a customer is when they live
down east and they live like in pure sand and it drains really well so that's the main difference
as far as growing and the application of them supertunias can go in the landscape containers
hanging baskets all of that super Bells do best in containers and not in the landscape
as a general rule so just kind of keep that in mind we're going to be potting up like a crazy
um in fact Emily and Meredith are going to start this afternoon working on some hanging baskets so
they will be up here doing that and then tomorrow we're going to be full alone we've got going to
have the potting machine going again hopefully have many hands make light work we're going to
get a lot of Grande days done some gallons good things are going to be happening so that way we
can get these babies growing and ready for you our customers so big exciting news of course
we'll keep you updated on how everybody's doing as they grow and develop we'll show
you everything that is uh as the flowers come along so much fun but as always thanks so much
for going with Creekside y'all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends