Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we're going to do a little
bit of a nursery tour here in the new greenhouse at the retail portion before we get too far into
today's nursery tour a lot of y'all are already asking when are we going to open up for the season
traditionally well last year at least we opened towards the end of February it's all
going to depend on the weather because here in North Carolina we could still get a snowstorm
you know at the end of February so we'll just kind of play it by ear as far as that goes that
would be the time that you're going to be buying trees shrubs and perennials and house plants
hopefully we'll have our house plants by then this is not a time for you to come in and buying
your basil and your coleus and your lantana right those we've just got to be a little bit patient
and that time will come but that is not the end of February for us here in North Carolina at that
point it will be Saturdays only and then as the season progresses temperatures warm-up days get
longer we will add to those days stay stay tuned stay tuned to our social media and we will keep
you updated on that but we do not have a hard date yet to open just know that it will be sometime
at the end of this month now we are in the new greenhouse and you might notice some things are
a little different in here first off we have got plants in here if you watch that video that we did
just the other day about planting up all that huge massive order from proven winners and i told you
that the first round got taken out of the production and brought down here well that is
what these babies are and they are doing great of course jerry and andrew got all the tables are up
on legs they are nice and tall it is the perfect even for a shorty like me it is the perfect height
to go and shop from and it is fantastic and my daddy is a woodworker and i can sometimes sweet
talk him into doing projects for me and in my brain i had this vision i think we talked about
it the last time we were in here these three poles that go down the middle of the greenhouse
i wanted something different than just like this regular rectangle tables
so i was thinking of doing like round tables around each one but then like jerry's like
well we're gonna be losing a lot of space so we just came over here one afternoon and did some
brainstorming and this is what we came up with my daddy had already started making the round tables
and we kept them they're notched out on as far as for this side they're notched out they're in there
and they're gonna be the perfect little end caps for this row and then in front of the other tables
so we have little half moons right here and we can put all sorts of things on here we can take
you know if we want to put a hanging basket on here we can do that we can take gallon
containers and we can put it down here and put it on that and it's just fantastic so we can do that
then i had the idea of doing some sort of little tables up here like a little shelf and daddy is
fantastic and did me these gorgeous round shelves fantastic brackets they are nice and sturdy they
are on there here again we can put gallons up here or we could put fertilizer all sorts of things
just a little fun different whimsy to the garden center as opposed to only rectangle tables now
what we're going to have coming down connecting each of the half circle tables are these
shelves now this is not how it's going to be as far as like the plants on it we're just trying
to we're still in a little production mode here so we have that tiered level system three tiers it's
almost like steps going here we can put trays on here we can put gallons we can put hanging
baskets all sorts of things so this is going to be replicated both down here and on this whole
side so it'll be really neat we have lots of room for people to move about because that's
really important for me is that our customers have lots of room to move they can get their wagons
and their carts through here and not run into each other very retail friendly but at the same
time we want to maximize our space that we have so that is what i think the update on the tables and
production down here is now we have some flowers that are blooming and these are of course the more
cool weather loving annuals as opposed to your heat loving annuals
before we get too far into here i'm going to show you the plants and just kind of give you the basic
information these are all proven winners so you can go to provenwinners.com and you can get any
more additional information about these plants um so i don't know if you know this about me but
i'm a homeschool mom this is our eighth year going into homeschool and when we started homeschooling
a very wise woman told me that it is not your job to know everything to teach your children it is
your job to teach your children how to become great students right teach them how to learn
so i'm going to have a mama jenny moment with you and just say i don't know everything i don't know
anything about plants but you know what it's my job to teach you how to figure it out for yourself
so if i don't give you exactly what you need to do no go do a little research professor google is
fantastic it will point you in the right direction talk to your other gardening friends so before
you do just look it up take 30 seconds and look it up i promise so that's my little heart to heart
from me to you so now that my rant is over we're going to move on to some gorgeous flowers
um here we go now these are and we have multiple colors of these these are what we call osteos
the actual whole name is osteospernum and all of our proven winners annuals are in what we call a
grande container okay so grande's fantastic size fits perfect in your hand so this is bright lights
yellow this whole series is called bright lights and then the different colors have the different
names so yellow gets its name very well very easy because it is just this beautiful shade of yellow
i mean little sunshine and a flower but yes osteos do great in the cool weather they are one of the
few things that are blooming right now um here in in the greenhouse the other one that is blooming
is the goldilocks rocks bidens now again it is a nice bright yellow
but you will notice that it does have a different flower to it right so it's a little bit bigger
it's a little bit fatter now the goldilocks rocks will carry you through the summer wonderfully well
even in our heat and humidity it just makes this beautiful mound the pollinators
love the goldilocks rocks but if you're going to go ahead and put in some color in the early spring
you can't beat the osteos so this is the double moon glow which is a very soft yellow has a little
bit of a white with a darker yellow edge really kind of in my opinion kind of a refined color to
it very soft very pleasing to the eye really nice now these are going to get about 8 to 12 inches
tall they do great in containers just really well now if you're looking for some hot color
look at purple you see purple oh my goodness it is like an iridescent gorgeous deep color just
fantastic there is the pink but i do not believe we have any pinks blooming yet another great plant
that we love are the sweet alyssums or lobularia so for example here we have white night so proven
winners has they're either the knight series like a you know knight in shining armor or the princess
series so this is white night pure white little flowers the flowers themselves are very small
but they are in these massive clusters together so when you see the whole plant in full bloom
it's like this massive carpet of white and it has the most delicious smell you have ever
it's like a honeysuckle kind of smell to it it is just glorious i will say for us i know for i
can only speak for us in our environment that if these dry out they do not recover well or
they take a long time to recover on the flip side if you have an area that stays kind of damp then
these are great to put in the landscape we have a customer that has this problematic area near her
driveway that's really wet and damp we put some of the blushing princess in there and it was stunning
it is gorgeous so the alyssums are fantastic and then let's see what else is going on down here so
that was white night this is snow princess to look at them in the um the containers is
really hard to tell them apart it is they're vigor their vigor is different um this and one
is more vigorous than the other i never can remember so snow princess is a 10 to 16 inch
growth on it and i'm gonna move over here just for a second the white knight is eight to twelve so
off the top of my head i say that snow princess might be a little bit more vigorous i would have
to double check that don't trust me on that for myself but see you can see here where we
were testing out to make sure that we had lots of room for two carts to go through i'm a very
visual person so this worked quite nicely so that's why we have two carts here in the middle
now bubble gums bubble gums are starting to look at that look at that great growth remember these
liners came as just you know maybe the size of your thumb they are growing doing quite well a
couple of people have asked about with the proven winners you know can you can you buy their seeds
you know blah blah blah i don't know that um maybe you don't know that the vast majority of proven
winter annuals are actually taken from cuttings so they don't even they're not even started from
seeds so that's a little bit of a different and that way you know you're guaranteed this
beautiful plant every single time because it is from a cutting it is from the mother plants and
they do an amazing job uh let's see come over here because i do want to give you an update remember
we have some of this finished product already we went ahead and moved it down here as well because
it's just more room down here now this is fun this is a fun little experiment i'm going to show you
lemon coral sedum right to know lemon coral is to love lemon coral this is what it's
going to look like when you buy it at the nursery at least here at creekside
nice and full look at that grande size container i mean that is an impressive plant right now
these are what our babies look like so this of course was that little liner very quickly
in a very relative short amount of time it is going to look like this
so that's kind of fun to see the difference between a baby and a quote mature retail ready
plant lemon coral does great in both the sun part sun super great ground cover it's actually a
perennial for us so it will do wonderful landscape containers you name it it does great and then
this is fun i think we've talked about this before this is one of their recipes where they put those
together a container recipe this is gloria rose these are those double impatients i did a
our social media theme this last week was flower power and one of those was the roccapuco
double impatience so this is what this is loves the shade fantastic and is paired with the diamond
frost and then the pink hippo which is a wonderful shade loving plant that gives you gorgeous color
through its foliage so those are doing well as are or as is rather this is the new saturn
by color it has starting to show a little bit more by color can you see that one jerry
so that it'll have that dark eye we talked about this before i don't think this plant is showing
so much of its dark eye because it's not in the full strength uv light that it would be in the
summertime so it may look like sun credible right now but once it gets that nice strong uv light
in the summer it will turn so they are doing great and then of course elbrato y'all this is
look at this isn't that gorgeous if you're looking for some bright pops of color you
cannot beat this and it's sun or shade so it is fantastic i think that's about it for today oh
no it's not hold that thought sorry i got soil over my hands we did get in the rest of
the birdhouses these birdhouses remember are from heartwood it is a family-owned company in
star mississippi so these are all handmade made here in america gorgeous quality bird houses
that are beautiful and functional so they are meant to go outside we have these here at the
nursery for our customers to purchase in fact i placed another order with them so we will have
more coming in gosh probably in the next week or so so this is a sweet one look at that
i mean they're almost like a little they are a piece of art that goes outside that your birds can
love so you can feel fantastic for putting this in your yard will do wonderful now we got asked a ton
we are not shipping we're not shipping anything we're not shipping plants we're not shipping
bird houses so if you love these bird houses and are interested and you live somewhere that's not
close to us wherever that may be you can go directly to heartwood's website order
from them and they will ship it to you so don't don't worry you're not missing out if you live
you know in california or maine or florida just hop on their website and you can order them
in fact i love this about their their bluebird houses come here i'll show you this so this
cute little bluebird house this is the quality that i'm talking about so it has this little
notch that turns and then it folds down has this beautiful hinge on it
so you can go in there and clean out the birdhouse
each year so you can keep it neat and tidy in there for your bluebirds it's fantastic all right
my friends we're going to wrap it up today for today's nursery tour spring is around the corner
be making your list writing down your ideas so that way when you go to your local garden center
you're not overwhelmed and you get exactly what you want for your garden as always thanks
so much for growing with creekside you all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends
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