it is august in north carolina and we have got
blooms galore come with me as we take a little garden tour
of this fantastic space
hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today we are
going to go on a summer garden tour we are
in front of this great cottage garden space if you will remember we visited
here in the spring and a lot has happened in those last
couple of months i love this area this area
is so much fun and brings so much viewing pleasure to our family and those
that come to visit us again if you remember this
area is right off of our driveway i am standing in the gravel
of our driveway and our house is just 20 feet away from us and our kitchen is
on that side of the house so we have multiple windows
that we look out of and see this fantastic space
so we're going to go on a little garden tour and i am going to share with you
our successes and i am going to share with you some of our
struggles if you will remember this bed this whole area basically
from the tree line all the way down is on
quite a slope so we have it on somewhat of a terraced area
of course we have the hollies and the hydrangeas back there
then we have a flat spot with our garden boxes
and then we have this great cottage garden
bed that i just have a lot of fun with playing with my
perennials and my annuals we had landscape fabric down
particularly on this area of the flower bed
when we first put it in because it is on just deep slope and we were afraid
because we've had in the past so much wash of our red dirt um again
if you've seen any of our videos where we're digging in the dirt it is red
clay and you get any kind of rain when you have red clay exposed
and everything turns red so we went ahead and put the landscape fabric down
put the plants in we cut holes around it put the plants in and mulched it
so that was that way for about two or three years
well my plants were not doing well at all
so this late winter early spring my mama who is just a
workhorse came and volunteered and helped me and we ripped all of that up
what we discovered was that my plants were being suffocated like the
perennials they were trying to grow and get larger as they're supposed to do
but that landscape fabric was restricting them underneath
the soil was absolutely horrid i had this great rich
mulch that had decomposed on top of the landscape fabric
underneath it was still just that gosh awful red clay
so i am still feeling those effects of not having that great compost worked
into my red clay over the years so i have really noticed with some of my
annuals that they have just struggled some of the perennials have absolutely
taken off because they are so excited that they have
room to grow so remember this is just a perennial this is amsonia
hubrici so right now it is just a fantastic
foliage plant she is a beast of a plant um i'm seriously considering moving her
i have her kind of propped up right now as you will see i got these
garden stakes from a garden supply company
online because you see what's happening here
she's flopping down and my poor annuals underneath are just suffering
the pentas here the proven winners pentas
the mini vista violet star was just not getting the sun that it needs
to survive so i'm thinking this sweet thing is going to get moved
somewhere this fall but she's still gorgeous
um some things that you can see kind of from
this angle that are loving life is this annual salvia from proven winners
this is rockin fuchsia you can tell like
right now it is covered in bumblebees they love it the
hummingbirds absolutely love this plant
that is one plant and you can see how nice and big she has gotten
again i did have to if you'll notice i had to prop up the amsonia on this
side also because it was flopping over on top of
the salvia and it was smothering it so miss fuchsia has taken off since i
have contained miss amsonia
we've got the sunpatiens this is tropical rose
it's done okay if you look at it really closely there's some foliage on there
that's not you know primo but from a distance it's really
pretty so i'm happy with that probably if i had
practiced some better pest control it would look a lot better
right now but that's all right they look good from a distance the
coleus like if you can see the coleus that's dotted through here
this is that bright yellow gold this is golden dreams
from proven winners and i love coleus in a flower bed
it just brings a whole new texture of color shape leaf size there's no blooms
but the color on it is fantastic again as before in the spring one
this is senorita rosalita cleome another proven winners all of these
annuals are from proven winners um so i'll just say that it's an annual
it's a pw annual there are in this one i believe three
and the pollinators love it as i'm sitting
here being attacked by pollinators um cleome's fantastic this is a sterile
variety so you don't have to worry about it going to seed
pollinators love it it is thornless also cleome traditionally has thorns
and seeds everywhere miss senorita is a very sweet girl and she's very well
behaved so she doesn't do that but massive color
i mean massive color gorgeous love this plant there's pentas
throughout so there was a penta up there between
that salvia and the golden dreams there's another one right here this is
rose that great hot pink this particular penta
is currently getting overtaken by miss huff miss huff is the about the
only perennial lantana for us in north carolina
zone 7b she is just a fantastic perennial
i don't know if you remember back from the spring i had this cut
to the ground like i am talking six inches from the ground so everything
that you see is brand new growth this summer
the butterflies absolutely love this plant
as do your pollinators i notice the butterflies really really like it
kind of starting in august and on there on but it is a great plant
lantanas if you have a perennial lantana don't prune it
until the spring when you see new growth so that's kind of a downside about this
is if i want miss huff to return next year
i have to let her just be here all winter
with just her sticks because if i prune her in the fall or anytime in the winter
any time before she shows new growth lantanas have hollow stems
so if i cut that i expose that hollow straw like stem we get a lot of rain
in the winter here so water gets down there and it will rot the plant
so if you have a a lantana that you have a hard time coming back
maybe you're pruning it at the wrong time so miss huff
prune her in the spring once you see new growth owner
again more sun patience here um the day lilies as you we've talked about we did
a daylily video um there's just now great green foliage
um this does not bother me a bit i know some people have a real issue
with daylilies and just being the foliage
doesn't bother me it just kind of melds away into the landscape
while the annuals take over this is vermillionaire vermillionaire a type
of cuphea that pollinators love the hummingbirds
love we have really noticed this year the
honeybees have been all over this vermillionaire
it is just we're going to have some vermillionaire honey here at creekside
nursery next year for sure now i'm going to
share with you one of my struggles
it's not a failure it's a struggle because
you know it's only a failure if you don't learn from it
but if you remember back in the spring on each side of these steps
i had a perennial grass and it was blue whiskers sounds good blue whiskers
grass and there was four of them nice short petite mounding grass
perennial grass gorgeous blue green foliage well if you
notice
they are not here that is i think they got to dry then they got
too wet then they said jenny you're killing us
literally and they just gave up the ghost
so i have tried several different perennial grasses
on each side of these steps because i just have this vision in my head
and for whatever reason it's just not working so i think next year i'm going
to go to a different plan and do something else that will flank
these steps but just know y'all we all kill plants
you know you're if you're not you're not learning if you're not doing something
wrong you you try and if it doesn't turn out
it's okay it doesn't mean you're a failure as a
gardener it just means you have something else to learn and it's okay
we're all in the same boat together all right so i just wanted to share that
with you so moving on down i haven't talked about so
this is yet another one of those great golden dreams this is one plant
one plant then we have the gomphrina this is truffula pink a great
fun brings a whole different texture to the bed
these great pink balls they're very straw like in their
habit their texture they make great cut flowers
so you can even now come in here and cut them
tie a little string around them hang them upside down and they will keep
their color once they're dried so in our house we actually have
little vases of gomphrina from last year and they're these
pretty little pink purple bouquets so there's an idea down here there was
another one on the other side and i forgot to tell
you this is an angelonia this is super blue this is
part of the um snapdragon family
super blue is part um of the landscape series so this is a really
good one to put in the landscape or in large containers because it's
going to be bigger than just angel face blue
again you can tell my poor little petunias
they're struggling they're on the struggle bus
it's all right we're all on the struggle bus these days sometimes
um now look we're talking about um day lilies
siloam peony display i have buds they're going to open up it is august
y'all and the day lilies are still trying
to bloom look we have an old bud buds buds this may be open
tomorrow i also want to share with you
japanese beetles unfortunately japanese beetles love their vermillionaire as
much as the pollinators do so we're just
going to take them and shake them off shake them off um
we have the pentas i mean look at this gorgeousness
more amsonia back there in the back corner
is the sun credible sunflower we're gonna go ahead and walk on
up here and this is we have five garden boxes up here
so suncredible is a fantastic continuous blooming sunflower this is
one plant that has not been pinched the only time it has been
pinched is when i use it for cut flowers so
this is great i mean it's covered in little bees right now
not not harmful bees not pesky bees but just little pollinator bees there's a
great little spider right here eating a bee i mean all sorts
i love these little flowers and they will go from spring until a
freeze in the fall so just an absolute they just work horse work work work
we've got our victory garden going on up here so
we've got some peppers some jalapenos tomatoes
don't look at this bed it needs some work some herbs
this is an empty box waiting to be planted with some fall crops then i
tried to see let's see if we can do some zingias and sunflowers we'll see if
they bloom for the fall and then behind me this
whole area we did a great video showcasing
first the little lime hydrangea supertunia this is silverberry that's in
the ground behind that is the firelight hydrangea
and behind those are three nelly stevens hollies so that kind of gives you an
idea of this great space we have a grape
grape grape grape it's not grape great crepe myrtle
this might be muskegee this was one that was actually supposed to be
white it was supposed to be a natchez and then when it started blooming the
next spring after we got it it was purple so clearly it wasn't what it was
supposed to be so i'm thinking it might be a muskegee
anyway it's a crepe myrtle and it's gorgeous
so i do want to take you down through this section
of the garden because we've not been through this area before
so we're leaving behind the little limes and then all the way
down we have this bank here on the edge of the woods we decided
to make this into a natural bed that extended this whole length
because it is just a great little addition
right here before between the woods and the grass so come on down here
because i want to show you one of these fantastic perennials
that is just gorgeous right now loving life but
through here to give you an idea these are viburnums these are brandywine
viburnums we probably have seven of these down through here it's a
great shrub from proven winners in the spring it had beautiful sweet
white flowers but look look what the white flowers are turning
into they're turning into berries now if the
bugs don't eat them they will turn into a beautiful deep
rich red color these are deciduous but they're
just fantastic i also planted
down through here we had this great plan so because we are a nursery we are the
grower we grow our own plants so in the fall we can plan what we're
going to plant in our yards so we had this great plan
together then the pandemic of 2020 hit and
everybody decided to become a gardener which is a great thing we love that
but my plants got sold so i didn't get to do the projects that i wanted to do
not complaining i am glad that they are at your house but
that plan was going to be that we would have the velveteen
coleus here and then in front would be a mixture of the supertunia vista
snowdrift and paradise so it's going to be a white and hot pink
carpet below the coleus well those got sold
but we have our coleus it all worked out well
this is a great um native azalea that some sweet customers gave to us
and so this is lacy's azalea but what i wanted to show you
is this goldstrum rudbeckia so blackhead susan i planted these and
they're throughout this whole bed this is one plant that i planted in
probably early june that i planted and she is just
loving life here the first of august bright
gorgeous color you can see it from a large distance away because it's that
flaming yellow this area is on irrigation so that you
know all of these plants do get water
twice a day for about 15 to 20 minutes a time because this area it gets
really intense hot sun so we have put it on irrigation and the
plants are thriving it was not always on irrigation and they
were struggling but now that we are giving them consistent water
they are absolutely loving life but that kind of wraps up our little tour
here of the summer garden we are so grateful for you
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