Hey friends today on Gardening with Creekside we are going to give you an update on how all
of these gorgeous babes are growing here down at the retail Garden Center if you are new or maybe
you just miss the videos we are Creekside Nursery in Dallas North Carolina we are a grower retailer
so what does that mean it means that we grow our own plants and then we sell them directly
to our customers who come to visit us this is the first round of annuals that we have growing we got
delivery of these uh maybe three weeks ago and so they have been potted up and are growing and are
growing and very happy so we're going to kind of give you an update on this because we have
some that are starting to put some little flower buds on very exciting and then we're gonna head
out to the Trial Gardens because we have some fun news to share out there we're going to go
under be under construction later on this year so we want to share that project with you as well but
just to recap we are in the retail this is our retail Greenhouse yes we use it as a growing
facility but this is down where customers have shop so when we open on February the 18th our
customers are more than welcome in fact they're encouraged to come in here and take a look and
check on and see how these little sweet annuals are doing all the production that we've been
doing is in a whole different production area that is not open to the public but this very much is
go through some of them aren't going to go through every single one of these plants because there's
a lot of them some fun things that maybe that we have not talked about here recently or things that
I think you would find really interesting to have in your garden one of my favorite components in my
annual whether it's a flower bed or as a hanging basket or as a container or The Proven accents so
these are going to be plants that do not flower right it is an accent plant it helps
those flowers shine well this is dichondra Silver Falls and it is a beautiful silvery green foliage
plant that one has a really silky texture to it so it's very fun to touch but just as its
name suggests Silver Falls it trails and it's gorgeous so it doesn't get really tall like on
the tag it says two to six inches tall six inches from my experience is stretching it but it really
really Trails so if you have like a window box or a container that you want that Spiller then
this is an excellent plant to have for sure we have seen many different hanging baskets
I'm using diconder Silver Falls maybe they use like three or four of them on the corners of
the hanging basket and they spill over and come down they call them like the jellyfish hanging
baskets it's really fun so the zycon or Silver Falls is doing well the osteosperms these we
have multiple different colors in this these are going to be some of our absolute earliest colors
in the greenhouse so as Jerry will show you this is really fun so there is it's the bright lights
series Bright Lights pink is a very nice soft pink last year I did a container with the bright lights
pink and the bright lights purple it was kind of that ombre effect in a container I just put
equal number of these two and alternated them it was gorgeous very simple but massive impact
and just beautiful some of our most popular ones are the double moon glow because it is
a very soft buttery yellow that has a different Bloom than the other Bright Lights Series so if
you're looking for a nice soft yellow and these are going to be full to part sun plants anywhere
from 8 to 12 inches tall brand new this year is the bright lights Horizon Sunset we grew this
in multiple areas last year at trialing it and it is gorgeous those colors are just stunning
and if I'm not mistaken this is a little bit more heat tolerant the osteos sometimes it will
tend to be like a really nice cool weather plant and then when the heat of the summer hits they
kind of check out they stop blooming but the Horizon Sunset I believe is a little bit more
heat tolerant now come out also my new plants coming out this year is the um supertunia mini
Vistas you got three new colors this is yellow so yellow is growing here and is a really great
option if you're looking for a petunia that is a little bit more small and not quite as vigorous
as the vistas but look how beautiful that is I know it's just green foliage but if you have
this beautiful green foliage and you see all this new growth popping up it means that this is a very
happy plant and it will be blooming before we know it so we have the mini Vista Yellow and we also
have over here the other there's three new colors this year then this is mini Vista um midnight so
uh it's a little windy out there hi sorry so mini Vista midnight which is a very deep deep purple
really nice kind of think of royal velvet but a little bit of a smaller Bloom and a little less
Vigor uh you may hear but Brenna is outside look we left her outside it's a very cool day here in
North Carolina I am not saying it's cold because we watched the news last night and we saw what
Maine was going to be like windshields of negative 60. so I'm not saying it's cold I'm saying it's
cool but my German Shepherd dog absolutely loves it so we she's a little frisky this morning
so we left her outside and so she's currently peering through the the glass door looking at me
um but a lot of people have asked when they're coming to shop you know do you have bubble gum oh
my gosh of course we have supertunionista bubble gum we always will have that and then of course
the Super Junior Vista jazzberry these the whole Vista series if you're looking for a nice vigorous
flowery petunia that just gives you great color than those Vista series are definitely it for you
we have Silverberry right here next door which is a white with a pink painting but maybe you're like
me in certain areas where you don't need that massive Vigor right like for me on my patio so
I'm going to be using a lot of the supertunion mini that's still white it has the same kind
of flower color as say snow drift but not nearly that massive Vigor and it comes in all different
colors Indigo mini that's the Indigo we're going to have great plans for that one as well
but this whole section basically is all petunias and super Bells so here you can see that we
have the super Bells yellow and it is a very nice happy plant and blooming so it's our only petunia
excuse me it is not a petunia it's super Bell we have some that are blooming but not anything like
the super Bell is yellow and if you'll remember they improved this yellow this year so it has a
bigger more vigorous root system which clearly makes it a very happy plant so we do have the
um honey berry we've got some honey berry blooms coming in here um Jerry can show you those but the
great thing about your super bells and your uh supertunias is that they are a little bit more
cold tolerant so they can handle temperatures down into the low 30s not that I'm saying you
need to put these out right now that is not what I'm saying but when it comes to you know
late March or early April where we could still get you know a little bit of a frost they can
handle it and so they do really well we've also got um Coral sun which is a really nice
orange and yellow so it is starting to bloom some as well so it's so much fun to come into the
greenhouse and check on these sweet little babies and see how they are doing from season to season
and as a grower we have to kind of plan you know we have to plan our crops so we bring plants in
um that we're growing at different times that way we have a succession of plants for when
they are ready we can't just like order all of the super tuna bubble gum at one time if
we did then but by the end some of them would be a little crazy so we order the same plant multiple
times throughout the growing season that way it's always fresh and ready to go for some sweet folks
um then over here we have got look at this the new namisha this is aromatic aromats Mulberry
and it has got a bloom on it a really nice kind of a rich purple with a little bit of burgundy in
there a little yellow throat on it nice and then the bidens the Goldilocks rocks we're starting to
get some little buds I do adore this plant because when the flowers open up the petals are very full
and kind of rustly and like thick and they're just a gorgeous yellow but the whole binds if
you've never done bidens they are wonderful have a nice sweet fragrance to them and they
are a massive pollinator attractor especially this campfire flame now I know if you look at campfire
flame compared to Goldilocks rocks you're like oh my gosh it's like taking forever it is it's
taken a little while to grow but when this blooms the pollinators are all over it in the greenhouse
because of course with the greenhouse the sides roll up and close with the temperature so they
come in here and this will be covered not only in honeybees but other like beneficial wasps that are
small so all sorts of beautiful pollinators love these plants some more great accents are like the
Silver Bullet Artemisia which will actually be a perennial for us beautiful the pink Chablis
um lamian so can you tell that there's a Jenny does Love The Proven accents that have those
kind of those silver undertones to it with this pink Chablis lamian the Silver Bullet the Silver
Falls all sorts of beautiful because when you have this cool color next to some really great color
with the flowers it does well linen Coral linen Coral is a long time staple fantastic plant easy
peasy and then add your atoms grew these last year really fun there's the blue there's the
white again these are not the typical agar atoms that you think of as you know before nice healthy
plants look at that so you can see that depending on what type of plant they will have different
growth habits right so some of them like the Azure atoms are doing great that campfire flame it's a
little slower it's just you know it is what it is with the plants so that kind of wraps
up what's happening here um as far as like all the fresh new color so we're going to head out to the
trial garden and give you a little update on a project that we have in the works for that face
all right so here we are down at the shrub lot entrance kind of to the nursery so if you remember
this I guess late fall early winter we really reworked this whole area like we completely tore
it up Jerry removed all the gravel we moved all the shrubs off of this we installed new drainage
new irrigation all of that to just kind of there were some problems that we needed to fix right
within the area because we will have and have had of course this is just covered in shrubs so you
have to keep the shrubs nice and happy so we had to fix some things we have extended the shrub lot
out closer to us these two containers right here I'm kind of we're going to signify the entrance
in to the shrub a lot we have these shrubs here this is from one of our most recent deliveries
and we've just kind of kept them in a block in case we need to cover them it makes it easier
but what is so exciting is over here if you have been to Creekside or if you have watched
a good number of our videos especially like in you know the last year or so you know that
on the other side of the pergola we have multiple kind of trial beds display beds whatever you want
to call it where folks send us plants and we will plant them in our landscape here in North Carolina
Zone 7B they are not on irrigation so we can test and see how well they do well we have always so
Jerry and I I grew up out here right so this is my family land Jerry and I have lived out here for 19
years and as soon as we started even talking about having a nursery and having Creekside down here it
has always been our Dream to have basically like a Botanical Garden open Gardens all throughout
this whole back property the creek does run the whole length of our property it kind of cuts our
property in half so where you see these massive tulip poplars the creek is just right there
so we have a beautiful Creek that runs through here then we had a pond just on the other side
that is fed by a spring that is what we did to keep that water nice and contained we dug out a
pond so we have a pond there we've always wanted to have beautiful gardens for folks to come and
enjoy because we fully recognize that this land is beautiful and special and spectacular and we
want to share that with folks who just who want to come and visit us so that has always been our
Dream well we were wonderfully surprised last year when the folks at Proven Winners came to
us and asked us if we would be interested in creating a proven Winner's signature Garden
here at Creekside so that is what we are going to do this is going to be a ongoing process it will
we will start that process really probably after kind of the mad rush of spring happens because
if you've been to a local Garden Center in the spring you know how wonderfully busy it is so the
signature Garden will come we'll have an entrance through the shrub lots that will have special
entrance here we'll have multiple entrances but this is one and then where the pergola is will
also be like a main entrance obviously the pergola will get moved because you can't walk through the
pergola but over here where these display Gardens are we will continue to have display Gardens but
they're going to have to get moved because this proven winter signature Garden is really going to
kind of Encompass this area where you see these flower beds and then beyond that on the edges
of the creek out in the back all around the pond up underneath the trees in the shade of the Hill
back there that is where we will have kind of Creek sides display Gardens that folks can come
and check out and just experience God's beautiful creation and just enjoy some peacefulness and get
inspired right and what can you do in your garden if you're not familiar with what a proven winter
signature Garden is basically is a public garden that features a lot of proven winter plants so
there will be shrubs there will be perennials there will be annuals there will be pieces in
here that stay for years and years and years and then there will be pieces that get swapped
out every year right like your annuals so this will definitely be a very fun project we are
wrapping our minds around this whole process and trying to really figure out what design we want
to have because each signature Garden is very unique in their own right and we want to have a
really nice unique experience here at Creekside nursery for the folks that come and visit us so
just know this is going to be a huge project it's going to be a massive project it is going to be a
very fun project that we have and our brains are swirling and whirling getting all of the
different components that need to happen to make this happen so we expect like I said construction
to begin probably early summer and then um it will move on from there the big Gardens in the
back and all around just like any Botanical Garden any Garden heck every year something
else happens you add in another layer you add in another feature so this will definitely be a
years in the making right a garden is never really finished is it you're always adding and tweaking
to it so Something That We're super excited about Brenna found the bird feeder again um sister does
love some sunflower seeds but we're very excited to start this project and work with all sorts of
The Growers and the different nurseries associated with Proven Winners and our friends at Proven
Winners themselves so we'll just keep you up to date on that but that is about it for today like
I said it is a gorgeous blue sky here today it is cool and crisp I will not say cold because
it's cool shall we say that this little this little North Carolina North Carolina girl is
nice and bundled up and having a fantastic glad to see some sunshine so as always thanks so much
for going to the Creekside y'all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends