Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside we have a fun project that we are going to begin
today we are going to work in the berm and we are going to begin the process of making Jerry's
vision for the house side of the berm come to fruition he had this great idea to create
these really nice structured spaces within the house side of the berm where we can fill them
with beautiful annual color so we are going to begin that process today we are going to get
the structure in and then we will come back and plant the annuals hopefully maybe even tomorrow
it is very bright out here today is a gorgeous North Carolina day so I'm gonna put my sunglasses
on my my buddy Jack gave to me so forgive me for wearing some sunglasses but yeah gotta take care
of your eyes people so here we are just to give you a little bit of a perspective we have all of
our supplies right here and what we're going to be working on in the berm is the spaces really here
um by the cherry trees if you remember back in the fall we had planted some azaleas and
I planted them in these on each side of these cherry trees well the Arctic blast came through
and really did a number on them Roman came through just a couple minutes ago for me and plopped them
out of the ground and we just set them inside of the bucket now we'll come back through here with
some great potting soil and we're going to save these because these are the new epic Perfecto
Mundo azaleas from Proven Winners and I really want to use them but they took a big hit in that
Arctic blast so you can see all of these limbs just got really damaged they are alive but we're
going to kind of nurse them back and hopefully we will be able to use them in the signature Garden
so we're going to replace the epics with Sprinter boxwoods yep that is right so we have got some
nice petite two gallon Sprinter box Woods that we are growing ourselves and so we are going to
use these sweet things now the Sprinter box wood was developed at NC State by Dr Tom Rainey and
Proven Winners is kind of touting this as being one of those deer proof shrubs and so while I
say there are deer resistant probably nothing is 100 complete deer proof so I would just use that
as a little caveat but we're going to use these beautiful Evergreen boxwoods that will give us
some beautiful structure in this space so let me try to give you the best I can being down
here on ground level what it's going to look like okay so here we have in the berm and we have the
Yoshino cherry trees there are two of them right so we have one here then we have the purple plum
in the middle and then there's the other one up there so basically on each side coming off of the
cherry trees on this side we're going to plant the sprinterbox woods like you can see right
here we've got two set up we're going to space them two feet apart but we're going to come and
create an inverted V with the Sprinter box woods so there's going to be a line here a diagonal
line here and then there's going to be a diagonal line right kind of where behind Brenda is this way
they will grow nice and close together we will keep them nice and trimmed yes that's going to
be a little bit of Maintenance but that's okay and then everything that space in between those
boxwoods we can fill with beautiful annual color so we're going to have it here this is the smaller
end of the flower beds just because it naturally gets to be a little bit more narrow as we came
down towards the creek and then this one I'm on the upper side of the berm is going to be
a lot deeper but we're going to keep that same angle with the Sprinter box Woods with the same
measurement and so these two beds will mirror each other and we are going to plant them the exact
same with the annual color so everything in here will be beautiful annual color because we will
have then in this empty section really where that purple plum is on the house side we will have a
beautiful whole another flower bed right here that we can use so if you remember we were here what
um was it last week 10 days ago where we were on the other side of the berm and we planted some
holy Grails and some barberries and those kinds of things well we went ahead and grabbed three
more Holy Grail hibiscus because we are going to plant them along the fence here on the house side
of the Purple Plum that way we have back and forth right so on one side of the berm we will have two
sets of holy Grails then on the house side of the berm we have one set of holy Grails this will be
really cool especially on those drone shots when everybody's In Bloom because you will see that
um they just complements each other on each side of the berm and then in the center in front of
those holy Grails on the house side we're going to fill that with beautiful annual color as well that
bed the center bed will be different than the two on each side hopefully I have been able to convey
the vision to you well so what we're going to do today is really because it's kind of later
in the afternoon our goal is to get the sprinters properly spaced and planted and the Holy Grail is
in the Holy Grails will be super simple because there's three of them and they're going to go in
a straight line on the back of the fence and then but we can't put those in until we know exactly
the angle and the distance and the spacing that we want just put the Sprinter Boxwoods
it is absolutely go time right now here at the nursery because it is May and we've got a ton
of annuals that have got to get in the ground so it is an all Hands-On deck situation right now so
Jenny is not flying solo today I could be flying solo there's nothing I could absolutely be doing
this but time is of the essence and we are trying to knock out as many projects as we possibly can
so I have my sweet crew over there hanging out in the shade I said y'all go y'all go hang out
in the shade while I do this little intro to the video now Jerry is not playing baseball that stick
that he has is using to space between the Sprinter boxwoods hopefully you can see them they're in the
shade and having a good time over there so what we're going to do now is really try to figure
out the spacing on these boxwoods and get them in the ground and we'll just walk you through
that whole process so the fellas are making quick work of this and have gotten all of the
boxwoods minus a few spaced out and placed for us so let's just kind of look at that for right quick
hopefully this will be a little bit easier for you to see and understand now so we've got these guys
going in originally I was just thinking of the two lines on the side but that's the beautiful thing
about working as a team is that Josh said you know let's go ahead and what do you think about putting
them across the back too that way it completely frames this whole bed that will be annuals
and I love that like I didn't even think about that because I was thinking that eventually we
would have things planted on the other side of the berm and that that would act as a backdrop
but like he said let's just go ahead and put it on the back and that way the entire bed is
framed in so I really really like that they are two feet on Center spaced apart from each other
had the tape measure out and everything and then here we go you can see the next one also
now the cans are going to be in line obviously the plants are a little back and forth but Roman
is going off to go get us a sub of some more and Brenna is trying to go with him and we'll
see if she stays all right here she comes so funny all right so Brenda came back very good
um because this bed is deeper obviously we're going to have more boxwoods on this side you
can see where we have don't have any in the center and then we are missing some here on
the end so Roman has gone to fetch those but we have them nice in here on this side because you
can really see obviously this bed is a little bit more developed than the other side the jonquils
they are beginning to fade out so as soon as they die back and turn nice and brown like some of them
are doing then we can go ahead and cut them or cover them up but everybody else in here is doing
really well we've got some Russian sage here we've got three of the quickfire Fab hydrangeas and they
are on both sides so those are in the back and then we've got the Stellar Ruby Magnolia here that
is covered in little Buds and she is about to open up very very happy now you might be asking about
irrigation on this bed we have the main bones of the irrigation are in place so on each side of the
berm will be its own separate watering Zone there is a PVC pipe that runs down on each side of the
fence and then popping up periodically on each side is the brown drip tubing we will connect to
that and then wind it through the beds as we need it but we wanted to get the majority of the plants
in here before we put down the irrigation because we didn't know where plants were going to be going
so this will be on irrigation it's not going to have to have a ton of irrigation but it is going
to be nice to have some water on these plants so Roman's going to get back with the rest of these
sprinters and then we are going to use um the big bobcat well the big auger on the small Bobcat to
drill our holes because you know work smarter not harder people and we'll use biotone in the hole
and then we'll get these done and then we're going to put some holy Grails in the ground as well
is complete and we are very happy with the results
as you saw Jerry put up the Drone because it's really hard to capture this space with just the
camera on the flat land so you can really see it up with the Drone cannot wait until we get some
annuals in here it is going to be gorgeous gorgeous color we knew that when we created
the berm that we wanted definitely more on the nursery side to have lots of trees and shrubs
and perennials that way people can just come up and they can see it and look at all the beautiful
shrubs and perennials and get that four seasons of interest on the nursery side on the house
side because we do see it from the front porch right this is a very visible area for us from
the front of the house we wanted to incorporate a little bit big Pockets not even a little bit but
big pockets of annual color so that way we get to have fun and enjoy all those beautiful colors and
so that way we can change it up from year to year it is going to be gorgeous those Sprinter boxwoods
are going to provide us gorgeous structure for many years to come I think we're going to try
maybe to get the irrigation on this here pretty quickly because all of a sudden traditional spring
has it sprung here in North Carolina it is quite toasty today and tomorrow it was supposed to be
even warmer I think we're supposed to be up into the 90s tomorrow that is why Jenny is currently
standing in the shade because it's it's pretty warm out there in the late afternoon but again
this was fantastic to have everybody's help when you have many hands that make light work and to
get the foundation plants in and then we can come back and add the color it is going to be
great as always we hope that you have found this fun informative and inspirational thank you for
gardening with Creekside you all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends