Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we are going to have a really
fun project here um at the flower bed that I call the Gatsby Gal bed because it has a
Gatsby Gal hydrangea it is right on the pathway from our driveway to the patio so we get this
space is traveled a bunch we go back and forth um Mimi and I have been planning and brainstorming
and daydreaming about this bed for several weeks now and so we have gone ahead and picked out the
plants that are going to go in here we have placed them and now we are getting ready to go ahead and
plant them everything that we are planting today are going to be proven winters perennials i have
chosen them for four seasons of interest really filling in this bed because as if you remember a
year ago this bed did not even exist and so we got kind of the bones of the bed in and now another
year has come another season has come and we're going to add a few more layers to this flower bed
to really kind of bulk it up and to give us like i said that flower power and that interest
all year long so we are going to get to planting so stay tuned we're going to get dirty and then as
soon as we are done planting everybody we're going to come back and i'm going to explain to you the
design process the plant selection and exactly how we chose to use these plants in here so stay tuned
so
all right so mama and i got everything planted i want to explain to you a little bit of my
reasoning on how this bed is designed of course we already have some shrubs in here
we'll link that video description up above so that you can see that what we did today was we
only added perennials to really bulk up this bed and essentially i'm trying my goal is to eliminate
any empty space so any empty space is a perfect place to put a perennial in here this bed does
get full sun we are north carolina zone 7b so i had to pick plants that really do well in those
conditions because the sun comes up here and then it sits behind us it just bakes all day
long we do have irrigation in here let's give you a little bit of an idea of the growing conditions
so in the very back you will remember i just recently took out the invincibelle rubies and
i put in the limelight prime hydrangeas they're going to be more narrow and tall they're not going
to be very wide right so they're going to be up and tall and not really out so that's my backdrop
is to have those of course gatsby gal hydrangea is there in the middle because this is the gatsby
gal bed and then i have three scent landias so what we did is we have got some midnight
masquerade penstemon there's three of them in here they're dotted throughout there's like one here
there is gotta find one one behind the scent landia and then there is one further down because
this perennial will get nice and big i don't need to put her in a group of three she can stand by
herself she just gets that really rich deep purple color right now though she's probably the saddest
looking perennial out here imagine what is to come not what you see right in front of you gorgeous
purple blooms on it the pollinators love it it's wonderful so there's three big ones in there
and then of course i had to put in shasta daisies so right here we have a group of
three this is the daisy may i put them close together i did not really follow
very many um plant minimum plant spacings on this because i want this to be really full i want the
plants to be touching one another yes they are close to scent landia it's fine everybody will
come together and just be happy little friends and if they're not i can move them later you'll
probably notice too i forgot to mention this i don't always have the best luck with lavender
because of our heavy thick clay soil they just seem to drown so we have put the sweet romance
in the unique stone square hummingbird planter hopefully this would work really well because
lavender hates to have wet feet so in a container it can drain really well so there we go that's
going to be the plan for that so we have the scentlandia here the other penstemon is right
here um of course the two apache rose grasses that are nice and cut down then we have a lovely pocket
right here in front of gatsby that is serendipity and yes we're we're battling the sun so excuse us
afternoon sun serendipity is just a sweet it's an onion it's an ornamental onion that's just
the best way to say it gorgeous if you will remember this clip when we were at pleasant
view gardens oh my goodness that just sold me on serendipity because they were spectacular
now this is really fun we have a whole little ribbon of five right here opal essence phlox
opalescence phlox is a nice tall garden flocks gorgeous creamy white light pink blooms on it
smells amazing again there's a little ribbon back there it's going to be gorgeous height color
lightness airiness delicious scent of course all the pollinators they love it so forth and so on
and then we have a great pocket again here of the um the cat's pajamas so cats pajamas is a
fantastic nepeta nice and low growing gorgeous blue blooms on it again pollinators love it
not that we have a problem with deer but it is deer resistant nice minty smell
and putting them in groups of five that is something though that really we took away when
jerry and i did all of our tours at the end of the summer last year um when we went to pleasant view
gardens we went to four star spring meadow and walters gardens it's really one of the design tips
that we really learned is if you want to make an impact especially in a big place use multiples of
the same plants and put them in groupings together it really makes a nice big impact and statement
instead of just doing a one single cat net put three together or put five together however many
you want to put together put them close together so then it grows and it looks like one big plant
nice little design tip that i am embracing more and more these days and then um we do have
another one of the midnight masquerades is back here um and then we really come into the pocket
of fun right here this is banana cream two and we have three six we have eight of them
yes i did plant eight of the same plant relatively close together because they're going to grow and
they're going to be massive and it's going to be this gorgeous hedge they are great for us
they're continuous bloomers they respond really well to being dead headed so they make great
little flower bouquets so you can bring them inside as long as you kind of keep those spent
flowers off of them they will just keep producing flowers we had flowers in our banana cream too
in our cottage garden in november they were still blooming in november and for us in north carolina
we will keep this foliage year round in fact these plants sat outside all winter up there at the
production lot so they're not going to completely disappear i'm going to have placeholders so i
know where my plants are it's fantastic and then this is really fun so jer if you can kind of come
this way because i don't know that he even knows this so obviously we are
going from one bed and transitioning into another and i know the sun is being a booger boost so i
apologize these are the david austin's behind me so what i did right here to kind of create
a little bit of a border is i have right here two of the vanilla cream baptisias
so these suckers are massive these are first year for us as far as this particular color
the root system is massive on them so they're going to get nice and tall
and they're going to form like one plant so basically i'm going to have a little bit of a wall
between one flower bed the little pathway and the next flower bed you'll be able to see
that there's obviously there's plants over here but it gives a little bit of a division i know
in the wintertime sure they'll be gone they'll be down in the ground this is just something a little
fun to add here because here's that limelight prime baptisia baptisia the rose so it'll create
this little nook right here super excited about it if it works out like i have it in my head
it's going to be fantastic and i will tell you too here in like where this rock is there's a
there's another blue baptisia and then right on the other side of the hummingbird planter there
is the other blue baptesia so we're going to have lots of color in here when things
wake up and start growing if i find that i have a little pocket or a little hole i can
always stick an annual in there we'll have fun we can always find room for more plants right
so this has been a lot of fun i just realized the reason why i did this of course this time
last year this bed was not even here the end of last summer i realized you know what everything in
here is like the same shade of green and i really need to do something different i need to add more
pops of color more texture more heights um so mama and i brainstormed together on some things to do
super excited about this it's going to be a lot of fun obviously we're going to come back
through here and re-mulch because the david alston has just got planted that's going to have to be
mulched so might as well just do it all at one time dig over you know dig in the dirt get your
irrigation right if you're doing irrigation make a mess on everybody and then we'll come back in
with the final blanket of mulch to make everything neat and tidy we still got plenty of time for that
so there's no rush anyway hope you found this fun hope you've learned something maybe you
saw a plant or two that piqued your interest and you want to add to your garden as always
thanks so much for gardner's great side y'all have a great day see you next video bye friends