join me today as i create a stunning gorgeous fall container
planting and i'm not going to use any pansies or
mums stay tuned
hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today we are on
our front porch yet again and we are going to create a stunning
fall container without using any pansies or mums i know it's shocking you
can actually do that i have three proven winner plants that i
am going to use in this simple unique first time for me
kind of fall planting now if you will remember just a little bit to give you
set the scene we are on our front porch we have a very deep
front porch and there is no direct sunlight
in this space until the very end of the day
again this is fall i don't expect a huge amount of growth
in these plants this is really just a display
container for the fall we are going to start
with this magnificent huge desert plains grass this is a perennial
grass and this really is a full-size
grass already i mean this is a three gallon container and you can see just
how huge and glorious she is this is going
to be the centerpiece of the container so i'm going to put it
in the very back of this pot now we're going to get her in here
and just nestle her down now she pretty much takes up the whole container
already i understand that you may not have a
full-size desert plains grass available to you right now
and that's okay we just have this here at the nursery and we said you know what
this is the perfect time to use it now those of you who are
new to desert plains grass like i said it is a perennial this thing
can get almost four feet tall with its plumes
and it is hardy in zones five to nine just a fantastic
easy low maintenance plant i've already got my soil here in my container
remember i tell you this all the time start with
fresh soil because you don't want to you know if you've had any kind of bugs
that have laid their eggs in the previous soil you don't want to
bring your troubles from the past into the present container so just start
with fresh soil we have already done that now what we're
going to use next is a fantastic heuchera
can you tell they were under the pines they've got pine needles all in them
this is actually excuse me it is not a heuchera it is a heucherella
so this is fun and games red rover another fantastic perennial from proven
winners they are nice and petite so heucheras
heucherellas are really known for their foliage we
love their red rover because it lives right up to its name and all of
the new foliage will be accented with red we are going
to put this on the very edge of the pot i've got
three of them and we're just going to line
the edge of the pot now because of the design that i have for this pot
i want to get them as close to the edge as i can and i'm going to tip them a
little bit so that they almost act like my spiller
got a shuffle around some containers here
we grew these here at creekside nursery for those of you that maybe are new to
our channel we are both a grower and a retailer so
we are located in dallas north carolina we are a zone
7b so we are blessed to be able
to grow all sorts of fantastic plants we have very mild winters compared to
some of the other parts of the country so there is one
this red rover for us is new nice short petite gorgeous
colors
and what's interesting too is these guys are what you consider um a semi
evergreen so we're making a nest
now all right we're gonna get these tucked in
now you'll notice when i'm putting them in here i really am kind of tipping the
pot the container not the pot
the plant the root ball whatever you want to call it
to the edge because i really want those to be showcased
if i were to stick it in just straight up
the grass would really kind of take over and
the red rover would get lost in there now it's okay to take your plants and
really smoosh the root balls if you need to because this is the last one
we're going to spin her around here
you know as i say it's not gardening until you get dirty
and we're we are getting dirty all right tuck some soil in there
all right now yes this container is nice and full
but because there's not going to be a lot of growth in here for the fall i
want it kind of full right away now desert
plains three red rovers now this is where we're
going to go a little fun and we're going to switch things up
a little bit you could if you had some really fun pansies in there
you could stick them in there in the little pockets you could put something
trailing but we're going to try something
different i have in front of me a bucket full of limelight hydrangea
blooms that i just cut i just went down
off of our magnificent huge limelight shrub that we've had for years and i cut
it i love the limelights because this time of year
they have got the lime green they have got some
pink they've got a little brown they are just the perfect
autumn hues to go in here so wherever we see
a little hole we are going to actually fill this in with the limelight
blooms so what i'm going to do is just get everybody tucked in here
see you in a second
she is all done and honestly it's even better than
what i imagined in my head i absolutely love
this arrangement the desert plains this time of year is taking on those
gorgeous red hues in its stems you've got the great little
flowers the flowers of the grass the plumes it's gorgeous so you've got
that green and red then you've got the red rover again
mimicking all of the green and the red and then the limelight
hydrangea blooms are in there this was a really easy
really fast quick arrangement now i'm not too
worried about these hydrangeas because honestly they're in stuck down into the
soil i just cut them off of the hydrangea bush i stuck them in there
they will absorb some water out of the soil that is in
there and even if not they will naturally dry
and then there's this beautiful dried flower in with the grass and the
heucherella gorgeous love it now to finish this off
and to make it extra fall i'm going to take some
pumpkins and arrange it and lay it out so that it
really completes the front porch look
all right folks it is all done and our front porch is ready for fall
as always thank you so much for gardening with creekside y'all have a
fantastic day we'll see you next time bye friends