good morning friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today we are going to
give you just a little quick update on how all the patio plants are doing you have seen us of course
plant this whole thing this season and a bunch of you have been asking how things are progressing
so we thought we would do just a really kind of a quick tour to show you how everything is surviving
in this mid-august weather standing right here beside these um this beautiful unique stone
urn and a pedestal there is one supertunia bubblegum in this container i planted it
in gosh it would have been like early mid april it's just one plant and i have cut this back at
least three times really severe because i want to keep bubble gum a little bit more contained of
course the vista series and bubble gum especially in my opinion is one of the most vigorous petunias
and so in the landscape of course we just let her go and in the container i wanted to let her go to
to a point because i didn't want to hide this gorgeous urn so i have kept her controlled and she
is doing great so never underestimate the power of one plant to give you a huge wow factor so
just give you an update on that and then walking through of course to the patio towards the patio
this is obviously the bed right here underneath the forest pansy that my mom and i planted
it is doing fantastic i mean look at these persian shields they have just
taken off and are doing a great job there's kind of a ribbon going through there
all the perennials that we either transplanted or moved are just thriving and doing great
the butterfly bushes this is the pugster white i have been kind of keeping more up on it as far as
deadheading obviously i need to do it right now typically i don't deadhead my butterfly bushes
but because this is in a high profile area and we have that party coming in the early september i
want to kind of keep this fresh and continually blooming so they're doing great this is the
perennial salvia that jerry had went to a propagation workshop at plant delights in raleigh
oh my gosh like 10 11 years ago and look at that is that not a fantastic salvia salvia diane
um gorgeous colors and then of course these annual vincas right here are just doing
great i mean i think i've water soluble fertilized them maybe twice so nice and big just doing
a great job and then the roses are doing very well this is of course the david alston roses
this is the generous gardener both of them are clearly they're climbing roses balti's bare root
plants they came in late april i think it was like even early may so bare root this is what
happens when you get really good root stock growth beautiful delicate very light pink so
they start out a little bit of the darker pink and then as the blooms age it'll almost turn a white
classic rose smell just wonderful such a sweet sweet smell so i can't imagine this i
think probably by next year this time next year it should have covered the whole thing so fun on that
it's just a beautiful one and i do i'll tell you this too
if jerry can get in here obviously with climbing roses you're going to have to tie them to your
whatever your trellis is so right here is this little it's a hollow black tubing and it is meant
to tie climbing plants to a support super easy um i got it off of amazon it is linked in our amazon
store on the video description so if you need something like this it's great for like tomatoes
roses any kind of climbing thing that you've got to tie up to help support it's great it comes in
this nice little roll i just pull what i need and clip it and it's stretchy and hollow and
the plant clearly is responding really well to it now over here this is the bed that i about
killed myself in when it was so crazy hot if you remember that video um yeah that was that was fun
and so i used the power planter auger to dig the holes in for super tuning of this to silverberry
the super white angelonia and then in the back is the pink guara which will be a perennial
these things have done amazingly well and if you remember in that video i did not really amend
this soil at all and it was really hard red clay i did add biotone to each hole and i did do a
slow release the time release fertilizer from proven winters i have water soluble fertilized
them on a somewhat regular basis i need to do some more but this whole area has done great
really really happy with it and super whites this is the difference in between just a super
white and a regular white the super whites are meant for a landscape so they'll get nice and big
and then coming on around i know a lot of y'all have already asked about the water feature
yeah it's still not done yet eh it is what it is all right so we we will get it and yes
there's weeds in there we'll we'll take care of all that while we're over here i do want to um
show you because in one of our latest videos we installed the landscape lighting for the
patio and a bunch of you were asking well how in the world do you change the light bulbs
it looks like it's really difficult so i wanted to show you on the spotlight how really easy it is
so let jerry come in here with me so this is the spotlight of course and we have two of these on
the forest pansy underneath there's a little brass screw so you just unscrew that
on the case well i go all the way i guess i don't want to lose my screw
this just comes right off and then this is the light bulb
and you just pull it out and replace it this is kind of a there's like a seal right here so that
water doesn't get in onto it and then you just kind of push it back on get the adjustment right
get your screw back in and then just screw it back in we will we got all of our and always
get our landscape lighting from volt lighting i will link that in the description um so check it
that out they have all sorts of great kits so you don't have to create your own it all comes
together and all the things that you need and you can add different pieces to it
so that is a great option coming around the caladiums are still doing fantastic
this little area i just planted a couple of days ago so if you remember we had the new um it was
marshmallow marshmallow shasta daisies in here i'm not sure what happened it's not the plant
it's the growing conditions i think this is wetter than i anticipated when we run irrigation um
they didn't i may have killed them and so because we're having this party i need to have a lot of
flower power so i've planted like 24 of the rose sunstar rose pentas in here um
they're already looking so much better they were they've been in these 4.25 containers for since
the spring so they were looking a little sad but they are already bouncing back getting darkened up
get a lot more green foliage so in three or four weeks they will be doing great over here firelight
tidbit new hydrangea from proven winters this is spiralite on a very small scale so you can
see the new blooms of course of that classic creamy white and then these are already starting
to get some little pink hues to them so this firelight tidbit if you want a beautiful panicle
gives you gorgeous colors lots of blooms but you don't have the massive room for it
like the traditional fire light tidbit would be a great one i think it's only like two feet tall
then of course this is a little quick fire both of these are full sun plants this one
is doing fantastic and then we have well yin and yang i can't remember who was who
but yin and yang viburnum again brand new ones from proven winners these are evergreens
they are wider than they are tall i want to say they're three feet tall four feet wide
this y'all is one of my new favorite plants if you have like along your foundation and you want
an evergreen but say you don't like a boxwood or you want something low then yin and yang would
be great ones we do yin and yang together because they will pollinate each other so they do little
sweet little white blooms they'll cross pollinate and then those blooms will turn into little small
blue berries if you just did again or you just did yang then you wouldn't get the little berries but
love this now we were here just a couple of short weeks ago and i really cut back both
the cascade pink angelonia and my supertunia mini vista white petunias so i wanted to show you
how they are doing um rule doll i think i need to come in here and make a bouquet
and get him limbed up a little bit but they are doing really really well like look at this look
look how well this is doing so don't be afraid to trim back your annuals a lot of times
they are going to respond for the vast majority of annuals they respond really really well so
this is already flushed back out with gorgeous blooms my angelonia remember this is a cascade so
it's not dry it's a weeping one so it's got tons of new growth there's buds all over it um
so much so that the mini vista is doing well that it's starting to take over a little sassy frog
right here doing really really well and coming along you can't even tell
where i did trim back some of the diamond mountain euphorbia it uh yeah it's doing great it's doing
fine so again don't be afraid to trim them back give them that water-soluble fertilizer give them
that time release somebody asked me on one of the comments she said i don't understand you cut back
the annuals because they were too big and then you turn it around and set them to make them grow she
said that doesn't make any sense things get out of control and so when these annuals start growing
really long like what was happening here you have all your blooms on the tips of the branching
and nothing in the center the center starts to look dead so what we do is yes we trim it back
and fertilize it so that we get a more of a tight habit with blooms that are all over the entire
plant as opposed to just blooms right here and dead looking foliage right here so
that is why we cut them back and then fed them to encourage new growth and new branching so forth
and so on like look how tight this plant is really really tight lots of new growth all those little
tee tiny little balls that you might see those are going to be blooms and in a couple of weeks
in a week it's going to be bursting like this is already starting to be now here this was july the
5th where i really whacked these back this is the supertunia vista snow drift severely cut
those back and in fact i've already had to start trimming them up again because they're getting
into their roses and i don't want them to encroach on the roses because that would prevent the roses
from growing again won't do these next year but that's all right we live and learn now if you'll
just kind of pan up to the deck boxes some of y'all might be having a heart attack right now so
yesterday morning about this time i went up there and i severely started playing with the sun here
severely pruned back all of those plants i mean jenny showed absolute no mercy and trim them back
probably as severe as you possibly can and if you look at them you might oh my gosh jenny you
have killed all of your plants i don't think so and i did this for a couple of reasons one
again they were out of control i had really planted those boxes really full do i regret
it no because it was gorgeous for months and i thoroughly enjoyed it the container kind of
changed over the seasons as different plants took took off and took you know had a lot of growth
again we're having this party i need it to be nice and full we were gone to new hampshire for
a couple of days it was really hot and they didn't get watered properly so a lot of them had a lot
of burnt foliage on it they were just looking sad so i went in there and i trimmed them up actually
used scissors because i could get more leverage on them just cut them back then i went back
and added the proven winter's time release fertilizer thoroughly soaked that bed because
it had been dry so i really wanted to soak and saturate that bed with just good old water to
start to activate the time release fertilizer and then i went back with the water soluble fertilizer
to again give them an instant shot of food so what i will do is just continue to water this daily i
will water soluble fertilize it about once a week and then we should start to see some new growth
in just a matter of like a week and so we will know um how the whole bed is doing the one last
thing i want to give you an update on are the urns because we had been here when we cut back the snow
drifts and so the urns are doing amazingly well this is the skyrocket grass there is only one in
there and then we have diamond frost on each side so they are filling in quite nicely they have to
be watered every single day because all of these are really water hogs and if you if you're if you
miss waterings on your grasses they can turn brown really easily and they're not going to
bounce back so because of this party i need them to stay nice and fresh and not have brown foliage
in them so we are making sure that they get water every single day they are doing gloriously well i
mean both of them just look fantastic and you'll notice that they're already starting to turn some
of the fall a little bit of the deep purple on the plumes so they will take on that fall look to them
and doing great super happy with how everything is doing you'll notice we got our unique stone
the pineapple is back here on this little section i'm going to have another one
on the other side because if you will remember pineapples are a sign of hot southern hospitality
very famous especially in the charleston area so i wanted to have two pineapples very happy with that
but yeah i think that's about it as far as
the tour goes and the update on everything we do have of course caladiums in the hanging baskets
on the porch those are white wonder and again they are just doing amazingly well sun or shade super
easy to do if you don't have palladiums in your garden you need to add them because they're just
low maintenance high performing plants anyway i hope you have found this helpful hope you found it
interesting to see how everything is doing and growing and progressing i will definitely keep you
updated on those deck boxes because again no mercy jenny i was just ruthless and just went in there
and encouraging them to put their best foot forward and so that they will be pretty
in the next couple of weeks but as always thank you so much for gardening
with creekside you all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends