everybody loves getting free stuff in the mail
well look what we got yesterday come with me as i show you what we got
inside this fantastic box
hi friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today we have
got a fantastic fun unboxing to show you so
our friends at southern living plants contacted us
and asked us if we would like to trial some of their new
introductions for next year well of course we
said yes we love trying new plants so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
show you all of the fantastic shrubs that they
sent us and to let you know to be on the lookout
because all of these shrubs will be going into future
projects here at the house and at the nursery so this is a great
little overview of all these fantastic plants
they're gorgeous that's just all there is to it they are simply fantastic
the first one that i want to show you is this really
unique brand new distylium we love distyliums for our southern
climate this one is jewel box distylium
it is has just a really unique fine foliage on it so this is going to
be in the full sun to part shade so it's very adaptable it is going to be
two to three feet tall by three to four feet wide it's one reason why we love
the ceilings because they are typically wider than they are tall
they make great foundation plantings what do i mean by foundation planting
like in front of your house um this is not going to get too big it'd be great
to go underneath some windows it is evergreen so you're going to have
that great structure year round and it is hardy in zones
seven to nine so again perfect we have grown distyliums different
varieties of distyliums here at the nursery and they have all
done fantastic but the foliage on this is
just absolutely exquisite it is just a really
fine foliage and you can see again how it has that
arching habit to it um just kind of a weeping effect to it
gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous love this plant so it will be going
into the patio area at some point okay next you're gonna put that sweet
thing right there this might be about one of the most
exciting plants i've ever seen you'll understand in just
a minute if you've watched us for any amount of
time you can understand and appreciate my
love for gardenias now this is no ordinary gardenia this is
going to be a columnar gardenia what do i mean by
columner i mean that it is going to be tall three
to four feet tall than it is wide it's only going to
be two feet wide so you can it's going to have a natural
habit of going up and being skinnier so it will make a
fantastic focal point you can put it in a
container you can put it in the landscape
my plan for this beauty is to put it on both sides of the steps at the patio
what is the name of this gorgeous girl this is diamond
spire gardenia just the foliage alone is beautiful really thick rich
deep dark green foliage of course your new foliage is that light green
it will be a single bloom of a gardenia so when we say a single bloom that just
means that it's the petals are flat it's not like a
double bloom of course it has that classic gorgeous
gardenia scent that you know i absolutely love um it will be
great for the full sun to part shade gardenias
do really enjoy the sun so the more sun and the more heat you can give them
typically the better they do and they're gonna again gonna be hardy in zones
seven to ten so these are very heat tolerant
and even here in north carolina in our zone 7b
they will do fantastic but just an absolutely
gorgeous beautiful different spin on a gardenia so excited about this one
and then next now this well i say i'm most excited about that
gardenia but there's a lot of things i'm excited about
this one is a really unique one now you might kind of be like what when
i tell you what this is this is a magnolia it sure is
this is stellar ruby magnolia also known as a banana shrub so this is
not going to be the typical big huge southern magnolia
that we think of it's going to be more like the tulip magnolias
they're going to have these gorgeous buds that
turn into these beautiful ruby colored blooms both in the spring and
then sporadically through the summer and the fall
she right now is absolutely loaded with blooms
and what's really neat too because this is a banana shrub
when the blooms open up they're going to have a slight banana smell
i cannot wait for that to happen because i've never smelled a banana shrub before
and i seem to be fantastic now this is going to be a great focal
point because it is truly a tree so it can get six to ten feet tall
by six to eight feet wide so it will be an absolutely gorgeous
specimen plant in your garden this would not be something that you're going to
want to plant in a in a pot definitely goes into the landscape and
it is hardy in zones seven to nine but just that great
gorgeous evergreen foliage really pretty when the blooms open up like i said i
just cannot wait to see how they open up in the colors
that they are but just that great ruby color it's just fantastic
such a neat little spin on what we think of magnolias
next we have another gardenia you know jenny's all about some gardenias
this one is really cute this is called foolproof now
foolproof is going to have your double blooms those nice big
thick rosebud type gardenia blooms that classic gardenia smell really neat
it is again remember gardenias like the sun full sun to part shade
this one is only going to be about three to four feet
tall by three feet wide and it's gonna be hardy in zones seven to ten
this one's really neat because it does have a different foliage too it's a
little bit of a finer foliage not quite as thick and waxy
as the diamond spire but just a really unique shape of the leaf and all of the
texture to it so i love pairing all of these together because
you've got different leaf types on it now you're just gonna i mean
gardenias what's not to love about a gardenia
gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous if i had a bloom
going you know i'd pop one in my hair but here we go next
now camellias southern living is known for their gorgeous camellias
and this is a new one for them they have a fantastic line
of camellias already so this is going to be a new addition to it
and if you were familiar at all with gardenias
you may be familiar with the shishi garden
gardenia it's not a gardening it's a camellia see i got
gardenias on my brain um camellia so this is shishi
white so she she is just the other shishi is just a classic
camellia because it is more wide than it is tall
camellias come in a range of colors in a range of
sizes this one's going to be really neat because it's going to be more
petite it's not going to be that 10 to 12 foot tall camellia that can get
out of control this is going to be a perfect one to put
in your landscape you could use it as a foundation planting
because it is only going to get three to four feet tall by three to four
feet wide just has pure white blooms on it
classic just very refined very elegant blooms
that will begin in october and then will bloom throughout until the early early
spring this is going to go back in the patio
area because i'm doing that green and white
theme and so this will bring me lots of loads of color
in the fall and winter when everything else maybe is in dormancy it's not
blooming this will be gorgeous and blooming in
all of her glory and right now she is covered in buds
now shishi white is going to be hardy in zones
seven to nine and it is full sun to part shade there we go
now two more that we have left encore azaleas
so this is a new addition to the encore azalea club
this is encore autumn majesty so remember
that all the encore azaleas have autumn as the front of their name because it is
a reminder that this will bloom again in the fall so not only does it bloom in
the spring it will bloom in the summer and then again in the fall now autumn
majesty is really neat because it has it's a double purple bloom
that is a petite size so the blooms are not going to be as big and as fat
nice petite just a gorgeous beautiful bloom on it the plant itself
is going to be three feet tall by three and a half feet wide if you had
a really large pot and you're looking to bring a focal point to your garden
you could put this in a large pot obviously it will do great in the
landscape it's hardy and zones 6a to 10. so this
is one of the most cold hardy azaleas that is out there because even our folks
in zone 6a can grow it and do well with it so
autumn majesty really really beautiful blooms on it
just i love it and of course your encores
love the sun they absolutely drink the sun for breakfast
so that people will ask you know can it really do full sun
yes it can do full sun up to a little bit of light shade so just so
you know you can have a couple of hours of shade and then
finally we have a hydrangea this is heartthrob heartthrob is going
to be a semi dwarf hydrangea she is part sun
to shade so she's going to be more of your shade hydrangea
not the sun loving hydrangeas that classic
mop head it is going to be three feet tall by three feet wide
easy peasy and it is hearty in zones five to nine
so for us being in a zone seven like that is perfection
it's definitely cold hardy enough and it's definitely not too hot so for us
in zone seven i like having that two zone buffer
so this is going to be a great one um it is going to be
let me tell you a little bit about this it will be dark
red blooms with a little bit of green on the outside edges
so this is color specific it is not going to be dependent on your
soil's ph so the color that it is is the color that it is it's not going
to change just an absolutely gorgeous one
very compact so if you have a small space
heartthrob would be a great one but that is our plant hall from southern
living plants we are so excited to try these out like i said stay tuned
because there's going to be a lot of videos coming up where we are going to
be showing you how we are going to
incorporate these beautiful plants into our landscape both here at the
house and at the nursery as always thank you so much for watching
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