Hey friends today we are going to plant the infamous wheelbarrow here at the nursery I saved
this wheelbarrow resurrected this wheelbarrow a couple of years ago this was just a wheelbarrow
that we had at the house that we used for a long time Nice metal very thick probably steel
has wooden handles but the handles because they were giving me splinters the tire was flat right
and she's like oh my goodness by that time Terry already had a new wheelbarrow so I brought over
here to the nursery and I used it as a planter I think my husband thought I had lost my mind
until I planted it up and it became one of the biggest attractions here at the nursery we have
it positioned right here at the bridge as Brenna is so gracefully demonstrating for me that leads
over from the Sun area into the pines and so every year I like to plant this up both I really do it
twice a year for my spring summer and then I'll switch it out and do some fall things that kind
of take me through falling into spring Jerry and I came over here and we completely emptied this
wheelbarrow right so it has zero soil in it the wheelbarrow itself was nice and pretty airtight
like watertight rather but last year we did come in and drill a hole in the side it's not in the
bottom it's more in the side up about an inch that way it will hold some water and kind of acts like
a little bit of a self-watering container but yes so there is a drain hole in here and so we
are good to go what we're going to do is like what we always do when we are planting containers we're
going to start with the bottom third of a high quality compost today we're using land and Seed
some of you have noticed that we've been using land and sea and the Black Gold compost both
of them are fantastic products we use them back and forth today we're using land and Seed because
this is a very large container you saw that it just took one entire bag of the compost forming
and so we're going to fill this in because I am really going to pack this in with lots of
beautiful annuals because here we are our last raw state was just a couple of days ago yes that
is the average frost date your frost date can end before or it can go beyond we cannot see into the
future but what the weather forecast is telling us is that we are good to go until May so that
is why we are planting these so beautiful soil in there and then I'm going to top it back off
with the for the Winter's potting soil so it is definitely go time here in North Carolina we are
in the Piedmont of North Carolina that means um we're not in the mountains and we're not down by
the ocean so my friends who are in the mountains you probably still have a little bit longer to
go before you can really kind of plant your heat loving annuals but you I'm sure you are going to
be doing your pansies and violas like your cool weather things you can be doing so down here it
has been nice and warm and toasty so I am just going for it I am going ahead and planting all of
my warm weather plants that will take us all the way through now this spot you may be looking at
and you're thinking that this is going to be a shade area technically no it is not it is a sun
the sun comes up behind me and then it's coming over it is just about to come over the pine trees
here at the pines and then it will set directly in front of me so this container gets at least
gosh at least a minimum of six hours of really good hot intense afternoon sun so this is
considered a full sun container so remember full sun is six hours or more of nice sun and because
this is going to be afternoon sun then I definitely want to plant my plants my
annuals that love the hot intense Sun so that's why we're going to use some beautiful salvias
some supertunias some sweet alyssum all sorts of great gorgeous colors that are going to give us
a lot of impact the hummingbirds are going to love it and are all the other pollinators and then the
people as they walk by okay so here we go I've got it not all the way full to the tippy tippy top
because I've got to add my plants and I don't want to make it the soil too full up here so basically
we're going to kind of Follow that recipe of your Thriller your filler and your Spiller
so because we do see this container primarily well really from you can see it from all sides
right because people walk around in all the areas so you do get it from a 360 angle however I am
going to pretend that this is the back and that is the front so my height is going to go here my
thriller so what are we using uh today we're going to be using the unplugged pink Salvia from Proven
Winners this is relatively new in the market like in the last I don't know two or three years
it's not going to get quite as tall as the Rockin series 14 to 30 inches it is a beautiful pure pink
flower you're going to space them about minimum 12 inches apart maximum 20 inches apart this is
going to be an annual acceptance zones at 9 to 11 and then of course like with all the proven winter
annuals you want to regularly fertilize them to get the absolute best results so we're going to
stick several in here and this is going to be one of my major pollinator attractors right
hummingbirds are going to go nuts over this my bees all the good pollinators so basically we're
going to stick three in the back we're going to kind of ignore the minimum spacing today because
this is a beautiful container that I want to get nice and full so we're going to lay this out so I
can get my design right then I think we're going to work a little backwards today so I've got my
Thriller then in the front we're going to use some beautiful sweet alyssum now we have done sweet
alyssum before we have done some in the landscape at the house this is blushing princess blushing
princess takes on a beautiful light purple and white Hue to it and it's a little bit more white
right now because it has been in the greenhouse and it's been the greenhouse is UV protected so
once it gets that beautiful UV light on it it will really explode so this is going to be a beautiful
beautiful very fragrant Spiller that's going to go over I think I think we're going to go
big or go home today and we're going to use three because this is at the nursery high traffic area
and we need lots of impact so we're going to put three very close to each other on that side then
over here spilling over we're going to use one of my favorite superting is this is the mini Vista
Indigo gorgeous nice rich kind of blue purple flowers to them so we're going to take those
and we're going to space those along the front edge so not only are they going to spill over
but they're also going to come back just a little bit and let's see I might do I might do one more
here so we're kind of going to go with the blue pink White theme this year on here super fun
now a new one for us that we have not used in a container yet look at that beautiful plant right
there isn't it gorgeous this is the Laguna sky blue and this is a lobelia beautiful nice upright
this is going to be my filler gorgeous kind of contrast as far as that nice light blue be a
nice complement but it just has a nice Habit to it see it's just kind of upright fills in and we're
going to do three of those as well now right now when I'm planting it it may look a little
um linear I guess would be the word that I would use because we're kind of putting them
my mini Vistas my salvias my sky boot sky blue is all they're all in lines but I'm
doing that because that way when they fill in they'll be super thick and just get all
together and be one huge massive plant within just a couple of weeks spilling over getting
Gorgeous Flowers so that everybody can see and enjoy so I'm very happy with my Arrangement
so what I'm going to do now is just plop these sweet things into the potting soil
all right my friend so we got everybody planted in to the wheelbarrow the unplugged pink in the
back the sky blue Laguna lobelia here in the front then the supertunia mini Vista Indigo and
then of course this sweet alyssum the blushing princess there on the end now when you have a
wheelbarrow obviously the lip of the wheelbarrow there's not a lot of soil right there so I had to
kind of turn those blushing princesses a little bit on their side which left their Roots exposed
so you always want to make sure that you come back and cover those roots with potting soil over here
obviously I didn't have quite enough potting soil because my indigos were going down raised them up
added some more potting soil in there so make sure that your roots are always covered in soil
now whenever I do a container I go ahead and add the proven Winters this is the continuous
release of plant food it's a slow release fertilizer that you're going to add in there
it has a little Shaker top which is what I like to use but it also has in there a little scoop
so if you wanted to scoop it you can when I plant like this I'll just come in and just shake right
on top of the plants because my plants are dry and so then I come back and do a little juice
like this and then any of those little pellets will fall down into the soil so they're not
actually sitting on the plant because that could burn the leaf over time so we're just going to
help it along and get it down in there and then the final thing that we always do when we do do
containers is we're going to top dress with a nice thick layer of compost so we're going to come back
here with our land and sea and I put a nice thick layer on top so why in the world do I do that I
have potting soil why do I need a top dress with compost well there's a couple of reasons
one aesthetically it looks pretty so it hides all of those little brown Petals of the continuous
release fertilizer that I just shook down so it hides that but more importantly it
insulates your roots so it will help with temperature fluctuation because we are in spring
so right so sometimes some days we're really hot some nights our temperatures will cool down so
this just helps it's like a nice little blanket for your flowers right so we're putting that in
there it helps with nutrition as the compost it gets watered whether it's from us watering or from
the rain all those good nutrients from the compost kind of Leach down into the roots of the plants so
it's another form of a slow feed for these plants because your annuals are very heavy feeders right
it is their job in life to produce as much as they can in this season while they are here because
they are not going to survive the winter in their little plant genetics they know that so they're
going to give it all that they have right now and since these are sterile plants they are going to
be producing lots of flowers they cannot produce seeds so they're producing flowers and they need
food in order to do that I like to say food equals flowers so if you're not feeding your flowering
annuals then they're not going to be performing at their optimal level so we want big performance big
beautiful flowers foliage and so we are going to feed these plants so there we go now you're not
going to be able to see this soil in a couple of weeks because these plants are going to take off
this container per se is not on irrigation so it's either it rains and it gets watered or we come by
through here and water it here at the nursery we have got tons of plants everywhere right we water
you know daily multiple times a day in the heat so it is not an issue of having to come here and
water this um so we'll give it good water and then probably starting next week or so I will go ahead
and begin using proven Winter's water soluble fertilizer on these guys it will benefit all of
these plants nice rich deep green foliage with big beautiful flowers to pop out and then of course
your great growth so I just see this container the Salvia is getting nice and tall and thick my
sky blue is going to be really filling in there this blushing princess nice and thick and then
trailing over nice sweet fragrance to it that is why it is a sweet alyssum and then of course the
mini Vista indigos getting some height to them and then spilling over as well so we have a beautiful
contrast of some pinks some light sky blue a nice rich deep blue purple and then some more
with a little bit of white with a hint of purple in that it is going to be gorgeous I
know my hummingbirds and my pollinators are going to be very happy with that so before we finish up
today what I will do before we leave is give this a nice little shot of water and um there you go as
far as your watering schedule goes when you have containers obviously containers are going to need
more water than your plants that are in the ground it's going to depend though on how much sun they
get how big your container is how many plants you have in there try to teach people or to
give people exact instructions on how to water is extremely difficult so what we like to say is you
want your soil to be moist not sopping wet and not bone dry so you're going to have to go out there
and monitor your plants if they are nice and happy and perky that means whatever it is that you're
doing you're doing great if they turn really kind of yellow and you're so oil is soggy and nasty
you're watering way too much back off of it and then if your soil is extremely dry and your plants
are very limpy you need to up your game you need to add more water to your regimen and of course
in any container you need to have a drainage hole make sure if you're planting in a container that
it has a way for the water to escape extremely important so with those tips I want you to go
out there go to your local Garden Center have fun had a customer this week and she was asking me she
said you know are there really any rules on the colors that have to go together in your garden
and I said uh no it's your garden if you enjoy it and you like the color palette go for it so don't
overthink it just go for it have fun I am sure that the folks at your local Garden Center would
be more than happy to help you pick out plants if you need some help that is what we do here
at Creekside Nursery as always I hope you have found this fun informative and inspiring y'all
have a great day thanks so much regarding the Creekside we'll see in the next video bye friends