hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside it is jenny and
we are here it is october it is an absolutely
gorgeous day here at the nursery cannot wait to show you some of the fantastic
beautiful plants that have just come into the nursery today so come on
let's go take a little walk now that it is october
you can officially say well i mean it's been fall for a while right
but still gorgeous mums look at all these beautiful mums
massive colors on them um this is when i like to buy my mums is
when they're in the bud stage so they've got the buds you can see them
but they've also got just one or two flowers on there that
you can see the color now i'm gonna tell you this it is one o'clock in the
afternoon so we're dealing with some sun and issues but
grace and patience are appreciated we are open so you might see some customers
in here but we just wanted to make this video really
quick so that we can show you what is going on look at these purples
purple mums we don't grow anything small here at creekside so to give you an idea
i'm trying to help jerry with the sun here
absolutely beautiful again they're cracking their color
what do you do to take care of a mum all you have to do is keep it well watered
you do not have to fertilize it at this point
it can do the full sun but it can also do some shade because it's already
formed all its buds for this year so the only thing that you have to do to keep
your mums alive and happy and healthy is to water them
they will do great okay so we've got the purple then coming over
here we have lots of new
gorgeous we've got the dusty miller that we've had before
so it makes a great filler into your containers or the landscape i'm
going to use it in both applications it has a gorgeous silvery
foliage to it very much like a lamb's ear if you're
familiar with lamb's ear that's what the dusty miller reminds me
of so let's come over here and look at all of
the beautifulness that's going on so on this side of the table these are
all pansies and on the other side are all violas so
you've got the yellows the purples there are some mixes in
there look at this blue so these are the ones
that have just come in that is the matrix
true blue love this color and then this is the matrix
light blue then we come into some mixes like this is what they call the clear
mix so it doesn't have the blotch that's why
it's called clear no blotch on it so there is the rose the
yellow the white the burgundy the purple
all sorts of ones they've just gotten watered so when i say a blotch you're
thinking what in the world are you talking about woman
well this is a blotch so if i can get it turned
so see it has that gorgeous white and then the blotch
of that purple so that's what we call a blotch down here along this side
we've got of course the gorgeous violas that we have had
but look at this new one can you tell a hundred silver stars for who can tell
me why we love this viola the most so if you know why we love this viola
the most stick it in the comments below you'll get elevated to superstar status
here at gardening with creekside i'll just leave it at that the rose we
sold out of the rose really quickly last weekend
we got some more in so let me show you why people love that look at that
isn't it gorgeous absolutely exquisite so they're all doing great
tons of different mixes
not a viola or a pansy this is a great perennial from proven winters
this is the cat's pajamas clearly it is a massive pollinator
attractor they love it the honeybees and bumblebees
right now are all over it i have to tell you though my
first ever in my entire life
this week happened i came around the corner and of
i guess a honeybee she was headed to the hive and i got in her way and she
popped me right on the lip yes that honeybee stung me right on my
lip did not feel good so that doesn't mean that i don't love
my honeybees they're still our beloved bees but let's come over
here because i do want to show you um some of the things of course they had
the trailing pansies this is a really fun one it is almost a
black color we got in some more
blue fescue grasses all the grasses that we have right now are all perennial
so the elijah blue fescue there's your tag
it is going to be about 9 to 12 inches tall
very cold hardy here for us like to negative 30. i don't know what zone that
would be they don't tell me what zone this is
um but nice and cold hardy perennial evergreen does well look at this
these are trailing pansies but this is such a dark purple
that it looks black fantastic so trailing pansies do exactly what they
say they just spill over and do fantastic
um then we got let's see if i can oh shorty here oh
there we go i can get it down but i can't put it back up so we got some
hanging baskets of snapdragons so these are trailing
snapdragons so we've had a lot of people asking for
hanging baskets for this fall so these are some great options there's yellow
there's like a deep oh there's a deep red there's a
an orange maybe a kind of a pink maybe i can't tell um so if you're
looking for a hanging basket for the fall
these would be great because snapdragons are a lot more cold tolerant
than some other annuals so this would be a great option for you
um let's come over here because i'm going to show you we're about done
i mean i could sit here all day and talk to you about plants
but come over here because i want to show you what we did
our project this week was that we fixed our um
dry creek bed so you can stay up there if you want to um
of course we've told you this a thousand times nothing is flat here at creekside
so we deal with waters and jerry's telephone going off excuse us
see this is real life it's what happens so we deal with a lot of water here at
creekside we put in this natural swell to help
with irrigation water coming off the greenhouses
and watering at the annuals and for when we get lots of rain coming off of
this side of the hill that's behind the nursery
well we had this all landscaped lovely had some river rock and the mulch here
and then back last february we had this horrible
storm come through and i don't we got this massive amount of rain
all at one time after the ground had been plenty was
definitely well saturated so we had major flooding here it
washed all of this away so this week we came back in
with larger stone this is still the tennessee river rock
and redid this and we are just so happy there's still some
little piddly ones down there at the end but for the most part this is done
we love it so it's a dry creek bed but it does serve a purpose
plus you know if it's got to be functional it might as well be pretty
right so that is what the deal is with this
but if you are local anywhere in the charlotte
area upper state of south carolina tennessee georgia
come see us we're here nine to three on thursdays through saturday
hope y'all are having a great day if you can't come see us get outside
wherever you are and spend some time outdoors
just enjoying and appreciating where you are y'all have a fantastic day we'll see
you next time bye friends