Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside we have got a fast and furious project that we are
working on we are going to do uh four trees here in the signature Garden so it's a fast furious
four planting there you go that's what we're doing today we've got four ornamental specimen trees
that we're going to be adding to the signature Garden not in inside the parameters of the formal
Garden rather on the outline Gardens that will be developed as we progress through this fun Venture
so what we're going to do is we've got two Red Buds we're going to plant we've got a Japanese
maple and a goo these are going to give us various seasons of interest and excitement love it again
outside parameter of the garden now one of these is the a proven winners tree so Proven Winners has
started uh within the last I say couple of years really trying to expand their lines of ornamental
trees that they offer right now I personally have found them a little bit challenging to find but we
were able to grab a Midnight Express Red Bud from actually two different nurseries uh suppliers of
ours had them so we grabbed one of them uh for the signature Garden super excited about this but of
course that red bud is the Midnight Express given its name we'll have those classic big massive
heartshaped leaves that are a beautiful deep deep burgundy purple color hence the word midnight is
going to be a little bit more sun tolerant than some other dark leafed Red Buds typically I will
stay on a dark leaf Red Bud that you're going to need afternoon shade we're actually going to
put this bad boy where it is going to get full afternoon sun Red Buds of course will give you
beautiful early spring flowers really kind of that vibrant purple pink flowers that come directly
off the stems of the tree so it's right out of the bark you get the flowers and then from the flowers
then your foliage will appear so we're going to do one of those and in fact Jackson is working
on that right now uh because this is a fast and furious project we've got Jerry is filming Jackson
is is on the Machinery Andrew is helping us CeCe is helping us we are trying to get these in uh
the ground as quickly as we can just because of scheduling it's not like wrong or happening it's
just scheduling then we have a another red bud that we are going to do and of course brena's
here how could I ever forget her she's just the cheerleader and the encourager around here give
you a little Glimpse as to what Jackson's doing I know Jerry's filming that we'll show you all
the good details on that uh but yes so the whole gang is here now the other Red Bud is still in
the back of uh Jerry's new machine this is the Rising Sun Red Bud now clearly it has already
gone dormant my red bud at the house has already lost all of its leaves as well the uh Rising Sun
Red Bud gets its name from its colors obviously it is a stunning tree and it's going to be a little
bit more petite and rounded 6 to 10 by 6 to 10 so it has that kind of a a rounded shape to it
but the colors on this thing are just phenomenal you've got greens you've got yellows you've got
oranges you've got Reds Jerry actually P planted a Rising Sun at his parents house a couple of years
ago and this past spring early summer holy moly it was just stunning so we're actually going to add
that one um here near the pond because we already have uh right here is a Jane Magnolia which of
course is another it's a saler type Magnolia and it does really nice uh kind of a reddish not red
pinky red flowers in the spring and then where Brena is and you can see um CeCe put her water
bottle down for me that is where the Rising Sun is going to go it too will do lovely traditional red
bud flowers for us so um you've got say the red bud the Rising Sun here and then of course Jane
is right here um so it still does like I said the absolutely stunning flowers in the spring
there you go now they are getting we're going to walk back over here they are getting uh Midnight
Express in the ground so we're going to come over here and talk about placement of this sweet thing
um at this point I'm more trying to stay out of the way and just document what is happening so let
me show you what we're doing for the placement of the Midnight Express this is the um this is
the Nook this is where if you've been following us along with us this is where our sweet Alyssa this
is where her wedding ceremony is going to take place um don't worry there's a lot of there's
a lot of project going to be happening around right here um but Midnight Express is going to
be just here to the left we have tons of really mature tulip poppers that is what you see all
those silver trees those large ones all of those are tulip poppers Midnight Express is going to be
a little bit more um upright than maybe some of the other Red Buds that we're used to nice and
upright very colmer almost so that dark dark foliage against the silver of the poppers and
and everything else is going to be really really nice so we're trying to work here together now
you will notice uh if you've watched us for any length of time you probably know that we have a
ton of red clay well what that is is a lot of sand so we've got because we are right here at
the creek Bank um over the years we've had a lot of wash that has come in and so uh we have a lot
of sand right so it just is kind of that natural top soil very Sandy right here she is going to
do just great of course when they put it in the biotone went in coming back with the native soil
and getting her um all squared away we will come back and top dress with some land and sea um but
yeah this is this is where when you own a nursery and you got some labor comes in really really
handy with some projects love it they're such great hard workers sweet sweet boys men young
men all right so we got this one in the ground and then we'll probably do um Rising Sun [Music]
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all four trees have been planted very fast and furious but done properly and they are in the
ground so let's recap of where they are what they are how they're doing what we're going to
do how we're going to take care of them all of the above it feels really good to get these in
the ground if you can't tell I am just slightly excited about that all right here we go we're
going to start here at the pond with the rising sun rising sun there of course Jane Magnolia
behind it and it will be a great tree right here it will bring lots of wonderful interest to this
space you will notice that we came back with land and sea so everybody has two bags of land and sea
underneath them right off uh behind there we have the Midnight Express that too so just just imagine
right you've got two Red Buds you have Rising Sun Midnight Express there on each side basically of
the meadow and so that will in the springtime of course give lots of good balance to this area with
the blooms and then for that Trio if you want to include Jane Magnolia they'll roughly be blooming
about the same time because they're very early Bloomers so from a design perspective you've got
three trees that are going to have similar colors and be blooming at the same time and it is in that
triangle shape right um which brings some nice balance and symmetry to this space and will make
it um just very pleasing to the eye then over here we've got our Princeton Century gko now Princeton
century is a male cultivar it is not female it is male meaning that it is sterile it will not drop
seeds and it does not have an unpleasant fragrance to it because a lot of times the female Goos do
have those kind of those pesky characteristics that people just find unpleasing in a garden
we certainly do not want to do that this will get morning shade afternoon sun your Goos need
to have sun to have that beautiful yellow color to them I have this exact tree in the backyard
and man it was glorious a few weeks ago and just stunning so the reason that we put it here it is
balanced between these two trees we have um this is a maple and then this is the Tulip popper and
then behind it we have a um a holly tree so just that native holly tree that Holly Tree will stay
here we're going to clean out some of the the underbrush back here to plant a privacy screen
for that Nook for the wedding and but this Holly is going to stay so you'll always have a really
nice lovely glossy dark green background behind it yes it has got plenty of room to grow up I
know that the maple has some limbs coming down that will not be a problem we can limb those up
if we need to because they do have a little bit of a lower arcing habit on them once the
trees leaf out come this spring summer we can kind of gauge that and if we need to limb them
up just a little bit we certainly can do that genos of course are just iconic in the Garden
they have those classic leaves on them beautiful shape just lovely lovely now these trees are not
going to be on irrigation again put two bags of land and sea around each one they are not going
to be on irrigation simply because we don't have irrigation throughout the entire Garden we have it
in the more formal inner workings of the signature Garden but not on the perimeter Gardens so what
we will do is if you remember when we planted our trees uh up at the chicken CP in the summer I got
those tree rings and we will bring them over probably tomorrow I don't have a hose that's
going to reach so we'll hook up the water tank on the tractor fill it up with water bring it
over and then we will go ahead and get um those tree rings filled up those rings are specifically
for 15 Gallons so this is the perfect size they have the mits underneath them so that they drip
the water I think it takes like 4 to six hours to get rid um to empty those bags so that will
be perfect um once if ever the uh fall winter um rains come then we don't have to worry about it
but we are incredibly dry we're not getting good consistent water so we will put those rings on
it because this is really important that we get good roots established now so that way in the
summertime we're not as concerned about if they're getting consistent water last but not least we did
a Japanese maple I had really fun time kind of researching this one this is aradne and aradne
is behind me it is hardan zones 5 to9 so with us being a 7B it is going to be perfect as far
as climate wise I don't have to worry about us being too hot too humid AR adnate is going to
do great now what's really fun is the colors on this Maple now yes we are in mid mid November
and she has started dropping a lot of her leaves but this tree is going to give us a kaleidoscope
of colors for three seasons gorgeous stunning foliage that continually changes throughout
the season now the reason that we put her here is because you can kind of see where like where
the center of the garden is right um keep in mind that the sun comes up here so she will
get her good six hours of Sun but then it sets directly behind where I am it will get in the
shade in the afternoon probably starting around 2ish um it will start to get some shade which
is exactly what this needs so that the leaves do not not Scorch notice that we left this guy this
girl a little high right you can see clearly see um Brena you're right in the way come on
out we intentionally left the root ball a little bit High uh because for a couple of reasons one
this area tends to be a little bit wet two we have more red clay when we were closer to the
creek with the Midnight Express it was more sand this is more clay like so it means it's going to
hold the water the reason that we leave that high is so that the plant does not get too much water
around it and we do not want it to rot notice that it's up about an inch not a problem then
we're going to take that Land and Sea we've already kind of piled it around we'll take
that land and sea and just butt it up against it we won't cover up the top of the root ball
we will um leave that root ball open up at the top so that it drains really well so if you're
planting in clay soil or in an area that could St hold some water and be more on The Damp side make
sure that you plant your trees shrubs a little bit High trust me there is tons of roots that
are exposed to that soil and they will get lots and lots of water it is not too high if anything
when people have that clay soil or wet areas they plant their shrubs trees to deep they pile on the
native soil up on the top all the way up to the crown of the plant and then the plant drowns and
rots don't want that so we have got four trees in the ground uh these were all 15 gallons and right
at an hour that is the beautiful thing about an amazing team and Technology we got them in the
ground they're very happy and I am a very happy Gardener they're going to give us gorgeous color
throughout the growing season super excited about it cannot wait till the spring and see everybody
start to shine so as always we hope you found this fun informative and inspirational hope y'all have
a great day and as always thanks so much for GR with Creekside we'll see you in the next video bye
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