hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and if you have been with us for any
length of time you know exactly where i am and you know exactly what is different about this space
look we have pavors i'm so excited they did an amazing job today and i say they because you have
seen our dear friend josh before he was the one that helped us put the fire pit together so josh
is a neighbor a great friend he is also a fellow landscaper who does a lot of stone work for his
customers well i think we've talked about this before but here in north carolina
thankfully and i say this thankfully we have only gotten rain we've not had any kind of
snow or freezing rain ice none of that just good old soggy rain has rained a ton so the good
thing about that is that josh can't do any of his landscapes so he was free for today and tomorrow
with part of his crew so we kind of sweet talked him and one of his great workers roman to come
and help us do down the pavers now i know that i'm coming to you after this is already done at least
this section is done because quite honestly those three guys were working so well together they did
not need me i was only going to be in the way so i just kind of stayed in the house and peered out
the window so that way they could get as much work as possible done now i believe they're coming back
tomorrow morning jerry's nodding yes so um hopefully i mean they got this much done
two pallets jerry just said two pallets of stone um today and there was a little bit of a hiccup
it's not really a hiccup but you know anytime you're doing a project like this you have to
kind of get your groove going and figure out what you're doing so at first they were going
to run the stone whoop they were going to run the stone going along the length of the wall
and then roman was like no it would be better to run a diagonal and so whatever roman says roman
gets as far as i'm concerned because roman does an amazing job he basically was the one that laid
all of this down with jerry and josh kind of being there his assistant it looks fantastic so they'll
be back tomorrow morning to hopefully then start going this way you can tell that they just laid
the pieces that don't have to be cut so wherever you see the dark gray gravel finds that those
are pieces that are going to have to be cut so of course let's get as much big pieces down as they
possibly can so you see that they the bright green line that's was their their straight edge that's
what they were working off of they went this way today and tomorrow they're going to go this
way i love it i am just so super excited so maybe tomorrow i'll be able to get some more footage of
them or some footage rather of them actually doing it so then we can talk about it in a later video
to kind of keep you up to speed on everything that's going on with the patio but again
like this this is one happy girl this is i just oh it's so exciting so that's going on
but also if you will remember we've talked about this a couple of times in the videos
that we have the the caps for the um the little columns here on the end of the wall and if you
remember when they delivered the caps they were basically kind of two different colors they were
technically the same name but this one was really gray and whereas the one over there was at more
of that orangey brown so jackson and i were in charlotte last week for an appointment so we
loaded up the caps took them with us and then they were fantastic and we just got to switch out the
one the gray one for one that's more of an orange so that is this one so now they are both very much
in the same color family that kind of that orangey brown because we've got enough gray going on
around here and we want something a little bit of a different contrast but there's still of course
that brown orange whatever you want to call it tan is in the stones so this just pulls it out
we do have another unique stone order is coming i talked to amy and she said probably it'll ship
within a week and so i have two urns that are going to go one here and one there the name just
flew out of my brain i'll try to remember what it is and tell you what it is but they're going
to be more low and wide kind of a pedestal urn so they'll fit very nicely here so that's what that
is going on with that and then come over here if you remember when we did our last
front porch chat if not you can check it out above i'll have it linked up there
this is the area that is was our deck so remember this whole area was an above-ground pool
kind of in the center over there and we had a deck that came off the back off the whole
length of the side of the porch so it felt like an in-ground pool it was great our kids swam they
learned how to swim they are fish now but it was just time the pool was falling apart it was time
to get rid of it so of course all the deck came out but we left this part of the deck because
it is nice we have the grill on there and it just provides another kind of an elevated area
and we do have our gas tank is buried underneath right here so we can really you know put pavers
on it we couldn't do things like that because there's a huge was it propane yeah propane tank
buried underneath there so we kind of have to leave it open in that front porch chat we talked
about my daddy possibly sweet-talking him into building the deck for us and good news thank you
for all of your sweet comments because not that they really helped him because he's not much of
a youtube person but i asked him in my very sweet daughter voice and he said yes so poppy is going
to build the deck for us all of the framing and all that is fine we might have to just replace
one or two boards on the front that have a little bit of some rotten spots to them but basically
what we're going to do is just put new decking on there we're going back and forth where do we do
the composite or we do like a treated lumber there is a massive price difference massive so we just
have to weigh the options and decide what we want to do but the plan is this course will have that
covered and then coming off on both sides here we'll have built-in planters
on both of the outer edges so we can have a nice raised heads planter boxes that will go around
and then of course you do not want to be able to see underneath this we're sitting here in
our nice deck patio area nobody wants to see that mess underneath there so we'll have kind
of a faux wall that will come down so that you don't see anything this of course will
fill with some great soil so we'll have i've got my two of my david austin roses are coming
in march so we'll have one here we'll have one here and then we're going to have a fountain
here that we're going to make from a unique stone planter so that'll be a whole nother video
that we do but just to kind of give you the overall feel of that spot right there so just
know it is not going to keep looking like a hot mess like it is right now and then finally
we have um jerry has started with the steps that will lead down to the rest of the yard
um again if you remember jerry works really well with steps just by himself
just kind of leave the man alone and he works it out and does a great job originally we were
thinking that the steps would be about and that's what he did and then they just didn't look good
and so he extended them all the way out to here so you can see kind of the front level
front step right here is done so i mean they are not wide we'll have the the pavers will come
all the way up to the edge to come right here and then we'll tie it back in here and then of course
this will be a wall right here so we can have planting beds that way and we will have
planting beds that way decorative gravel in there i already know that we're going to do massive edge
of white hydrangeas behind the seating wall not directly back some but you know you get the idea
so in the summertime you'll just see this mass hedge of gorgeous white hydrangea blooms
but it is all coming together it has been a process those of you that have been with us from
the very beginning you know what a process this is but it is so exciting to look out your window
and you're starting to see it all come like really come together and what it's all going to look like
it's very very exciting um so lots of things happening here of course we're still getting
tons of plants we've got about five thousand more pw annuals this morning we're getting some more
tomorrow or today i don't know they're coming from all over the place
tons and tons of plants websites coming thank you for your patience i promise we're not selling out
like y'all people are freaking out like oh my gosh the supertunias are gonna be gone y'all
we haven't sold one yet they're just growing and getting happy so once that website goes
up you will have plenty of time to get it and for my local people who are going to come here
we have got tons for you so don't worry now don't drag your feet don't come here you know late and
be like where are all the flowers early bird gets the worm right so we've got lots of plants for you
no worries we will be open this saturday keep in mind we're really encouraging
you not to buy the annuals this weekend unless you have a heated greenhouse for them
it's too early to put them out i was talking to a lady today from south carolina
you've got plenty of time i told her come end of march into april you'll have a great opportunity
to buy everything that you need i just don't want you to get them too early and then you take them
home and something happens to them and then you have to buy them again you know we're opening
because we've got people that want to do right and we're opening yeah not for not for annual sales
not for hanging baskets they're not going to be ready y'all it's february so i know that everybody
desperately wants it to be spring but it's not you're not ready yet just you got to be patient
patience is a virtue and creekside is going to teach you how to be patient this year
but anyway we'll get off here because the sun has gone down and it has gotten really cold so
um anyway we'll keep you updated on this i will try to get some footage so the next time we do a
video back here you can see the fellas working um like i said it's a fantastic thing to watch i stay
out of the way because i'll just be a distraction and um anyway it's great we'll see in the next
video as always thanks so much for gardening the creekside see you next time bye friends