Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we have a fun little project that we are
going to work on I want to show you how easy it is to move perennials that were in a container into
your landscape so that you can use them and enjoy them for years to come if you remember gosh back
in springtime we'll just say that because i don't remember when it was springtime i planted up this
shade container that i have had on my back porch all summer long we put in two different
kinds of ferns a hosta and some lamian and i thoroughly enjoyed it all summer long
because it's in that nice deep shady part of our back porch but now that it is september i
am ready to transition these perennials out of the container and put them into the landscape
here we are of course in front of the forest pansy bed and this bed we've been into many many
many times before but if you'll remember this bed gives me a little bit of everything i have
got deep shade i've got light shade i've got full sun so i've got plenty of different places to put
these fantastic perennials which is really nice because for example i have two perennial ferns i
have the crested surf from proven winters and then i have one of my favorite ferns
lady in red and of course ferns do like the nice deep shade and they like it moist these two ferns
can handle more moisture than any of my other perennials so i'm gonna find kind of a wet spot
and put those guys in there and let them flourish and then i have sweet little june hosta
june is an absolute classic hosta it has been around for a number of years but it has this
really pretty blue color to it with a dark green edge so i'm going to find and it stays
a little bit smaller so i'm going to find a spot a little bit more up front and then my lamian is
great because it will act as a ground cover and it can do sun or shade so i've got plenty of spaces
to tuck that in and give me a little bit of ground cover because we've talked about it before
here not only in this forest pansy bed but other flower beds is that as your garden grows and
matures and you add in more plants it really helps cut down on the amount of mulch that you have to
use every year it cuts down on your weeding of course it cuts down on erosion because you've
got all these fantastic plants that are taking up space and there's no room for the weeds to go
so we're going to get those in the ground i haven't exactly figured out where i'm going
to put them i will do that and then i do have another hosta this is diamond lake from proven
winners i had an extra one hanging out and i need to get it in the ground so we're going to do that
as well so we're going to try to figure out exactly where everybody's going to go and then i'm
going to show you how easy it is to disassemble the container and get these babies into the ground
okay so we're gonna go explore together and we're gonna try to figure out exactly where
i'm gonna put these perennials i was talking to jerry he's helping me this morning and i think
let's see if i can get the camera flipped around here there we go give you a little update doesn't
the fall container look nice everybody's growing doing really nicely remember that's where i used
warm weather annuals for fall color so everybody's very happy now i think what i'm going to do is i'm
going to plant the lamb in right here in this little hole so i have got three of it's an
evergreen candy tuft so in the early spring i will have nice pretty white flowers and then you can
see behind there i've got the absolutely gorgeous ascot rainbow there's actually three in there
with a container of solomon seal there in the middle lamian i believe is going to go right here
in the center of that so that way it can fill in and it will give us lots of gorgeous color
ground cover fill everybody in and then we're going to mosey our way over here
to the area because i've got the hosta and then the two ferns and those two of course
three rather need a lot more shade now i know that right now this is in the sun and you're like
jenny that's in the sun why are you gonna plant these shade loving perennials in the full sun
it's in the sun right now but it's early in the morning this area will get obviously this lots
of good sun right now and then it gets a beautiful break from that hot afternoon which will do really
really well you can see the container that we just planted the other week and it is doing
really well i will say that when the day after i planted this i was like oh no maybe i should
not have put that pink a blue in here this the pulmonary it's my most shade loving because it
was a little limpy but she has rebounded and is doing great so we're going to move on what we're
going to do is go ahead and put the crested surf that is that beautiful painted turn from
proven winters right here beside the gecko because that is a really damp area
so we're going to want some moisture loving plants right there then back here in the back
i have right around in this area right behind this hosta there is a spot that a euchre is not
doing well so we're going to put the lady in red fern in front of that and hopefully that will kind
of hide the eucharist and then over here we're going to be dancing with the sun probably hello
here we go um we're going to put the june hosta right here in front i've got in the steel bee and
i've got a perennial geranium so june is going to go right here because she's nice and small
and then i've got one more of the diamond lake that we've got to figure out where we're going to
put it it will get nice and big so i'm thinking it's going to go somewhere towards the back
but yeah let's just get going this is a perfect time of year for me to do this because sorry
there's a bug flying through there um because we are coming from the end of summer and we're going
into fall now calendar wise it may look different from for you than it does me we are north carolina
zone 7b if say you were in a zone three maybe you needed to do this a couple of weeks ago because
what we want to do is get all these perennials out of the container and into the ground before
the cold really hits we want to still have some warm days and weeks so that we've got lots of time
for these roots to get really well established these are all perennials so when i'm going through
here i'm probably going to be a little rough and aggressive with these plants and that's okay so
we're not too terribly worried about what the top foliage is going to look like i'm mostly concerned
with getting my good roots out hoary hoary one of the best absolute garden tools that you can have
in your arsenal so what i'm gonna do because it has a serrated edge i'm just going to come in
here and i am literally sawing out this lamian out of this container because i had one two three four
really good sized perennials in this container and that they have been growing all season long
and so their roots are really intertwined with one another shall we say so i really have to
kind of get in here and force and pull this out so i can tell that it's coming here we go
so there we go this is what we have right we have that great root system you can tell that it's nice
and well intact um but yeah this container was getting starting to get a little bit pop bound
so now again is a great time to come in here and clean it up i think what i'm going to do is go
ahead and this is going to make a little bit of a mess right here i didn't think all this through
but i am going to go ahead and trim this up because i don't want a whole lot
of the foliage for the root system to have to hang on to and support
so by going ahead and pruning this lamian i am helping the plant to actually shoot out
new growth a little bit earlier and it's less stress on the plant i didn't take a
huge amount off but i did go in here go ahead and get some of that cleaned up and we're going
to go ahead and get the whole august use my biotone and get this one in the ground
all right so as easy as that we have got the landing in the ground
and i did find an irrigation line that runs right beside of it so that will be
perfect for this lamian and lamian is a great ground cover depends on your variety sun or
shade this one can do either one so of course in this spot it will get a lot more sun
and it will just fill in right here around the candy tuft and it's easy if it gets a little too
happy in a spot it's very easy to just cut it back and keep it trimmed up but it'll be really pretty
and then this one does bloom white flowers so that will be perfect next to this candy tough and just
fills in next to this catment that i have right here that is also white
so the whole plant is just all coming together now what we're going to do is move the container over
and we're going to go ahead and get those two ferns and the june hosta in the ground as well
all right my friends so as easy as that we have got those four perennials that were in
the container and then that one extra hostile we have got it in the ground they're going to
be nice and happy in their new home with lots of room to grow so i just wanted to kind of recap and
show you the importance of taking those perennials out of the container yesterday morning i watered
that container really well like i thoroughly soaked it the soil in there completely dry
those plants were really starting to get root bound and they obviously they were struggling
because they did not look they're optimal um that they should and that's because that could they
were outgrowing that container and not getting the nutrition that they should that is the perfect
sign to say ding ding ding you need to move me or i am going to suffer even more another thing is to
put your tags in your containers that way you know exactly what they are um the lamian that i was
using was white nancy my nancy fantastic lamian that will just give you loads of beautiful pure
white blooms and then all my other tags were in there i will go back and add these i like to
bury my tags with my plants so not that they show but i like to have them in that area so they later
on if i need to go back and dig around and try to figure out what something was the tags are there
so let's just flip the camera around let me show you what exactly everything looks like and to talk
about yeah what we did first of all i want to talk about where i put this diamond lake hosta because
it may look a little odd to you in its actual location so here we have it right here behind
the landscape lighting i want you to keep in mind that the surefire begonias and the caladiums
are all annuals so they will not be here next year unless i replant them this diamond lake will get
nice and big it's right there in front of the blue jangles hosta they will grow really nice
together and i hope the plan is of course is that this hosta will really fill in this whole area
i want to come back within the next couple of weeks and fill in here in the front
with some of it's a perennial grass and then it isn't evergreen i want to say it's ever gold every
i'll have to look but it's a beautiful lime green chartreuse evergreen grass that will be nice and
kind of wispy and low and i can plant it here in the front then that would be a really pretty color
but when jerry and i were talking we're like man this white caladium is absolutely glowing
and can't you imagine if we had planted more like in the deepest darkest part back there it
would just be gorgeous so i am going to make a note of that in my gardening journal from for my
notes for next year as to make sure that i do that you can already see that the lady in red
fern is just sticking her little head up just nice and pretty right there beside the stilbies and in
front of believe that's wrinkle in time hosta that hosta is nice and small so it'll stay nice and low
we're dancing with the sun here another update on the pitcher plants they are doing nice and happy
we have bug bat here in the front just such a fun little plant look at that and then that gecko is
just so stinking cute and then back there in the back is conversation piece and nice tall beautiful
pictures there doing nicely and then the crested surf will look really nice filled in nice and tall
and thick and full different texture different look to it will be really nice and then moving
backwards just a little bit here we have june and june again is going to be a shorter hosta
i put her pretty close to the edge of this of the um the walkway right here that way if she spills
over it'll really kind of soften that edge so i don't mind a bit if she does spill over we have
those nice deep dark chocolate distill bees really fun nice color contrast and in the back
there is that perennial geranium so those are all looking good and then of course that lamian
that was back there but now is the perfect time for you to be working in your perennial gardens
what will we do as far as maintenance on these guys well it'd be pretty easy because the
irrigation is of course running in this flower bed and i planted everybody where they would be
nice and happy with the irrigation i will keep my eye on everybody for the next two weeks to make
sure that they are getting adequate water and then after that i really can forget about them and just
let them be maintenance on this bed for the fall is we will wait until all the leaves fall
probably until we get a good frost or freeze that way all my annuals will be gone i can
come in here and really clean up this bed and then do a nice top dressing of compost
or or something of that nature so that again we're just overall adding to the health and the
nutrition of this soil because your soil remember is probably your top assistant in the garden if
you have great healthy soil then you are going to have great healthy plants so adding that compost
and nutrition at least once a year at this time is perfect to do that so that is what we will do
but if you have perennials in your containers start thinking about where can i put them
into my garden especially if they have outgrown the containers if you've got perennials that
are nice and fat and sassy and happy in their containers and they're no they're not showing
signs of any stress leave them alone they'll be fine but if you do need to move some start
thinking about it now and get them in the ground before the cold hits as always thanks so much for
garnier with creek side y'all have a fantastic day we'll see in the next video bye friends