hey guys the day we took a road trip we are no longer at the nursery but we
are somewhere super fun and exciting and we have got gorgeous plants to show you
and a little surprise at the end oh no not a little surprise a big surprise so stay
tuned
hey friends welcome to the southern spring home and garden show here in
charlotte once again we have been asked by proven winners to come and present
their plants to the public and to share our proven winners love with everybody
so that is what we're gonna do we have got all the new introductions and the
proven proven winners here at the show to show you so we're take you through and give
you a little tour of all these fantastic plants so first we're gonna head over
here to the perennials and some of this shrubs they have got a gorgeous selection
of plants here you have got everything from Sun to shade we have got the boogie
woogie sedum that is really fun and low growing it has great variegated color of
course it's a sedum so it's gonna be really drought tolerant heat tolerant
once it's established also perennial onions who knew that a perennial onion
could be so much fun but if you were looking to bring pollinators to your
yard then this is a great option for you it's actually one of the earliest
bloomers in your garden does these gorgeous purple globe blooms that the
honeybees and the Bund bumblebees absolutely love that will go into some
needs at least six hours of Sun to bloom prolifically and it says great in them
kind of that half way through your garden in the middle of your garden
because it will grow to be about twelve to fourteen inches tall next who needs
some shade perennials well we have got the Jack of Diamonds brunnera you which
is a great alternative to hostas so if you have a deer problem in your yard or
maybe you have rabbits green area would be a great option for you because the
leaves are actually um hairy and fuzzy and it really doesn't feel good on the
little deer's lips so they will stay away from it but it has great big fat leaves
with really great silver foliage and so it's really attractive in its shade
garden then we have oh so easy double red rose these are
called oh so easy for a reason they are very low maintenance high-performing
shrubs they have a gorgeous bloom on them this is that red they come in
several different colors but this is particular color we have today is the oh
so easy red also the denim-n-lace such a great perennial has really a silvery
green foliage again if you're looking to bring the pollinators in they love these
nice delicate little purple blooms on it loves it dry it is super easy in the
garden alright not a perennial this is an annual but we grew this last year and
y'all it is amazing absolutely amazing this is the Suncredible Sunflower from
proven winners it is a re-blooming sunflower that goes on and on and on you
don't have to pinch it back they encourage you if you want to pitch it
back I'm you can it would get to be a tighter plant you just kind of let ours
go last year because life was crazy and I didn't have time to be out there
pinching flowers off of it but it's still grew to be about four feet tall
and about three feet wide and we had blooms from probably like the first of
June all the way through a hard frost like we had to actually pull this guy
out of the ground and say you're done time's up and make great cut flowers and
they I mean look at all these buds absolutely covered in buds and it would
do that all season long absolutely fantastic that's great in the
landscape if you have a big pot you can put it in there but in my opinion the
landscape is the best location for this because it just does so well pentas
don't know if you're familiar with Pentas but they are an amazing annual
they love the Sun their drought tolerant they come in four gorgeous colors we
have the red here today and another great thing for us southern gardeners
and I guess anybody kind of has these little pesky
problems Japanese beetles Japanese beetles do not like the Pentas last year
I did not have to treat for Japanese beetles on the pentas and they just
did beautifully they just kept blooming they would bloom then the plant with
grow taller and they would bloom again and it was just this continuous
cycle of blooms really really pretty they love the Sun big color there this
supertunias we are back with another introduction this time we have snow
drift and snow drift is a pure white bloom you're familiar with the Vista
series of supertunias from proven winners these were specifically bred
for the landscape and they are vigorous growers they love the Sun you've got to
have at least six hours to get those blooms if you have less than six hours
so you're not going to get the blooms but they truly just spread and just do
an amazing job covering areas so snow drift is a great addition to that
vista series wicked witch : we were able to get our hands on these new
introductions last year proven winners send to us to kind of test them out this
wicked witch was growing at the nursery and the customers were ready to buy it
again it is a gorgeous coleus I love the colorblze series because it can do full
Sun to full shade they just continue to grow they will get to be about maybe a
three foot by three foot size by the end of the season and if you're familiar
with coleus it's a lot of times you're constantly fighting that they want to bloom proven winners has bred these so that one they may not bloom at
all until they do bloom is at the very end of the season so this color blaze
coleus wicked which is gorgeous um oh look at this - raspberry rush
supertunia get another petunia from proven winnersit has some hot color
it truly is a raspberry rush that gorgeous raspberry color with little
stripes of white in it fantastic we love these double impatiens from proven winners
we've always carried the Apple Blossom and coral reef well this year they knew
we're Clemson fans and so they developed this plant just for us at Creekside
nursery I took you know so this is a great orange Rockapulco double
inpatient this is a shade plant so it can take about four hours of Sun Morning Sun
and then it likes to be in the shade this is definitely not one to go into
the hot blazing afternoon Sun does great in the landscape and contain really
pretty but if you do have that blazing hot Sun the truffula pink gomphrena we had this in the
driest part of our yard last year and we planted it in do live which I really
don't recommend but it worked this truffula pink gomphrena is just a
non-stop workhorse in your garden you're looking to attract butterflies you need
to get this plant it is absolutely fantastic and amazing and it's just so
unique it has is really pretty purple and the purple is actually not the bloom
it's the little the bloom is actually the little yellow on its own interesting
side note there the annual of the year so every year proven winners does the
plants of the annual the year perennial the year and so forth so this year their annual
of the year is their diamond before euphorbia series and they are introducing a new
one this year this is Diamond snow so diamond snow somewhat takes the place
of diamond delight and there were diamond delight was tight compact
lots of white blooms but it was small with small little and if you're very
tall and it kind of stays really compact well diamond snow it's gonna get kind of
the height of diamond frost but so many more blooms on it and just a really
tight white look so you can have it as a monoculture like this or you can put it
into other containers and even the ground so diamonds know you for begin
this will actually do a little bit more shape to Sun so it's a little bit more
versatile than say like the rockapulco or gomphrena so we can do shade the
Sun it's not a new one but the golden dreams coleus again
their color blaze so we can do Sun to shade through this last year the
container by itself and it was just it looked it's like this it was absolutely
gorgeous with all of that lime green foliage and that burgundy so pretty and
so versatile black currant punch these are superbells calibrachoa so
these do greatest hanging baskets and in containers
you don't recommend it in calibrachoas in the ground because they don't like to
have wet feet and so sometimes in the landscape it's a little bit harder to
control how much moisture you have but it's just such a sweet unique bloom on
it with those lighter edges the dart Center and then that yellow I really
pretty one that I'm super excited about supertunia Sharon so this is another
petunia but it gets a double petunia again had these here
last year oh my gosh all they were amazing I had big plans for you if you
remember my water trough from last year that I did the coleus well
basically things are gonna make a debut this year in there so it is a bad color
of pink and white with that double bloom so it gives a nice tight compact little
ruffled edges we love this again because it is a petunia it can go in the ground
containers hanging baskets very very versatile we've got that the new
another new coleus wicked hot so it's the wicked series you guys we this bench
now it has wicked hot wicked is more of an orange cuts color with that aging of
that lime green on these again sun to shade a late bloomer get blooms at all very
versatile it's a great plant um another calibrachoa another orange
they just know they know so this is really fun it is a double
calibrachoa and it is that orange nice little smaller blooms so that your
super bells we're gonna have a smaller bloomed in your petunias typically so
this is a great one salvia we love salvia especially if you're
looking to attract pollinators to your garden then this is a fantastic this is
the new product so there's a whole rockin series but
this rockin' is blue suede shoes it has a more of a true blue color to it
it's not so vibrant purple it's a lighter blue pair well with lots of
white and other blues and pinks again loves the Sun heat tolerant drought
tolerant you get to be about three feet tall about three feet wide great
thinking of pollinators pugster blue so this is a butterfly bush so obviously
it is a perennial shrub the pugster series is a petite plant normally like a
two by two that has full size blooms on it
now you can see this is covered in buds but it's not blooming yet so this is the
blue and the blue color is actually in my opinion as long as deep dark purple
but you can see how many buds are on this thing and when soon as it cracks
color they are massive and the butterflies are just drawn to it like
you would not believe but this is a great one one of the big things that
proven winners is super excited about and gardeners everywhere are excited about
is their introduction of caladiums so this is the heart-to-heart series of
caladiums there's actually 20 varieties they can do Sun to shade and some of
them can do both Sun and shade and some of them are more shade and more Sun just
depending on their variety but look at the variety of color the leaves are
different so you can save that is white wonder it's just a gorgeous white with
great edging a little bit smaller leaves as compared to the bottle rocket it has
that nice color its bigger than my hand so basically they will do great in
containers that are very adaptable as a house plant so at the end of the season
if you want to save them then you can bring them inside and keep them as a
house plant if you don't bring them inside they are considered an annual even
here in the South they will be considered an annual
one last thing that proven winners and I personally am so excited about is the
aquapots now you're like Jenny what in the world is an aquapot that is a crazy name
well an AquaPot is a self watering the container and they're not
just any self-watering containers we are here with the man of the hour mr. Jack
Barnwell himself and he is the creator of aqua pots and so he is gonna walk us
through the whole what an aquapot is and how you came up to it alright alright
alright so we've got a small selection here from the line of aquapots these are
known as the techno white aqua pots beautiful beautiful ceramic containers
in this gorgeous glazing work and they're very heavy I mean these are not
like light pots these are other heavy-duty but I I'm extremely strong
obviously but for a ceramic planter you know you want it to be heavy enough that
it's gonna you know it's gonna last for 19 years and years so aqua pots are self
watering planters that the only self watering planters in beautiful glazed
ceramics like this in the world and they're really they're like I said made
to last we've been working on the aqua pots concept and design for about five
or six years now trialing them all over the country and now we have them you
know they launched available nationwide and including at Creekside nursery and
they're gonna have quite a collection of them there with this spring which is
really exciting but how in Aquabot works really made to
be an aqua pot right in the factory in vietnam the system and everything is
integrated right into the mold you'll see in the pot itself there's that rim
that's molded right into the pot and there's no drainage whatsoever in the
bottom of the pot the drainage is way up here on the side underneath that
integrated rim so every aquapod comes with all these
simple components there's just three simple components there's the soil tube
the fill tube and the disk really heavy-duty like I said I'm I designed
and made these for my my crews my guys like break everything and now we have
them available nationwide and stuff but they're made to last for many many years
very strong very simple components the reason there's all those threads you
want to have that adjustability so that you can raise this up and down to make
sure that it fits really nice and snug sits on that RIM got to so you want that
soil to on the bottom and the disc on the rim nice tight seal potting soil
that you're going to use any kind of good premium potting soil with a lot of
heat in it and everything that will fluffy down all the way into that soil
tube and fill up yes then once it's all full of soil all of this again is
explained in this cute little booklet to you of course
free go miners does great tags yeah all of these steps are explained in here and
we have a ton of information online but the process is really quite simple to
put them together yeah and be set up and ready for planting also you'll notice
because of that you're using about half as much potting soil right so that's a
big ratings right there you know in a larger pot something this size you know
you could be saving 10 to 15 dollars whereas potting soil every year that
you're planting that up so that really does about for sure
so then how often do you need to water this yeah so once it's all full of soil
we put a little bit of slow-release fertilizer right on top of the soil
before planting we also put slow-release fertilizer right in the tank
that's a really cool factor yeah about the Aqua Pops's the slow-release
fertilizers will release under water turning that water reservoir into this
fertilizer infused water waking that up from below in the
plants consent that when they release roots right down deep and and really
really set themselves up for just like vigorous growth incredible
that's fantastic an aqua part of this you know these smaller ones once a week
watering is that fine and we just tell everybody across the board
fill up your aqua pods once a week even some of the huge ones that we have for
landscape and commercial properties we still just say fill them up once a week
top them up get you out there picking at your plants and making sure everything's
gorgeous anyway that you top them up once a week and they're gonna really
that is fantastic yeah they work really well we're super
proud of them and I'm excited that everybody now will have a chance to use
aqua pods because I've been spoiled using them with my mic crew and we've
we've just we've well even here the show people are super excited about them and
they are we have got people asking we can we get them a buck here you're gonna
have you know so it's really exciting so thank you so much for creating such a
fantastic asset for us partners we rotated through thanks thanks if you
have enjoyed this great little tour of the proven winners booth here at the Southern Spring Home & Garden Show here in
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time bye guys
Jenny!