today on gardening with creekside we are going to take you on a garden tour that is comprised 100
full of shrubs stay tuned hello friends Welcome to gardening with creekside I am Jenny
and here we are at this most beautiful cottage garden that I think I have ever been to we have
been um privileged to stay at the guest cottage of here at Spring Meadow Nursery so Spring Meadow
Nursery is in Michigan it is the Proven Winners shrub nursery so if you buy a Proven Winners
shrub it comes from Spring Meadow they have this beautiful precious little guest cottage that they
offer to folks who come in and dealings with the nursery and so they offered it
to us for the two nights that we are here doing tours and they gave us permission to do a video
garden tour of these magnificent gardens that surround this cottage so we're going to go
through and give you really kind of big sweeping ideas that you can incorporate shrubs into your
garden so again this garden is comprised of shrubs yes there are some trees in here and there's only
two annuals that I have seen and it's just in little small little pockets but the vast
99.9 of the landscaping is all of the shrubs now I will go ahead and tell you that this is not
going to be an in-depth about the specific shrubs because not only is this garden beautiful but it's
also a trial garden so as we go through you may see that there are especially some like some red
stakes and they have a little barcode on them so that tells the folks at Spring Meadow like exactly
what the shrub is when it was planted so forth and so on so because in order for these shrubs to make
it into the market and Proven Winners it goes for years and years it could be 10 years it could be
12 years before they are ever put out for our consumption so again this is really going to be
an inspiration garden tour and not really plant specific so for example right here this amazing
gorgeous hedge of panicle hydrangeas it is spans probably oh gosh I don't know
40 50 feet along the driveway and then of course you can see the sun is hitting it just
perfectly the one tree form down there at the very end that is the owner's house and so that
is the entrance into his driveway and then here we have the entrance into the cottage
gorgeous roses so this is the exact same rose that they have planted in mass
to make a big huge massive statement piece again gorgeous color you can see that it's in
full bloom right now so we have those that come down the whole length of the driveway
and then on each side over here to my left again it's just it's different plants in here beautiful
you've got like spireas and different hydrangeas popped in throughout here
some great evergreen trees here is that little pocket of some lantana so the lantana of course
is not going to be a perennial here but it gives just a little bit of a pop of color
and then the only other annual that's on the property is the wicked witch coleus
in the front so that those are the two pockets of annuals here um everything else
are shrubs and trial plants so come on you'll notice that um see this is the tags without really
kind of zooming in but if you can see these red stakes as you see these red stakes throughout the
garden this is what is signifying to the spring meadow staff what these plants are but again look
tall pinnacle hydrangeas in the back working their way forward they've got some roses
some shorter hydrangeas some types of crepe myrtles a great tree beautiful color contrast with
those lime green low row of of hedge of evergreens beautiful butterfly bushes i will tell you that
there are some major pollinator attractors in this garden beautiful evergreen trees in here
so there are lots of butterflies and bumblebees and honeybees but as we come
the back of this property is on the grand river if you can see that behind us it's beautiful got
roses of sharon in here mixed in with what i would consider probably those are going to be evergreens
great look at these like conical really tall narrow evergreens beautiful
mixed in with some type of fruit tree right so you've got evergreens mixed in with some
practical fruit trees beautiful roses of sharon both on this side and this side why jilla is here
some again another type of evergreen nice and low you can tell that they've kind of kept it trimmed
to be a nice little low tight little neat little border um but look hydrangeas of
course proven winners is like one of the largest suppliers of hydrangeas and the hydrangeas are
in not short supply here absolutely gorgeous but look at this view is it not spectacular so
on the right hand side of the property there's more panicle hydrangeas that they've got that are
in full bloom you can tell that there's a couple of different kinds just because of their size and
their bloom color some are already a little bit more lime while some are a little bit creamier
and then of course you can see here the back of the cottage
so that's where we had our morning coffee this morning it was glorious you know jerry and i
we do enjoy a good cup of coffee on a porch so instead of being on our front porch at home we
sat on the back porch and looked out at this beautiful river again lots of neat fun color
beautiful panicle hydrangeas and you'll notice that these are under some pretty
nice size mature trees um the sun did come up this way this morning and is sitting behind us so even
though these are panicles these are not going to be in sun up to sun down sun they're going
to be that probably around that five hour mark and they're doing beautiful they're doing great
the owner's house is back here he has his own gardens that are just beautiful but coming up
just like planting the same shrub in big swatches makes a huge impact of course
you can have like a specimen right so you pick a plant that's a nice specimen but other than that
so you know it's like this is the same hydrangea right so they have the same hydrangea as a border
all the way up over here then on the other side they have a group of three of the same hydrangea
so if you've got the space and you want to make a big impact plant more than one close together in a
group and it makes a big impact again here we have probably a barberry i'm not going to run my hand
over it because if it's a barbarian i'll find out real quick that it's a barberry but look at this
again you see them this is probably an abelia group of three right big huge look at this mass
like hydrangeas mass of the same hydrangea mass of the same hydrangea but they're different ones
tall in the back short in the front um and then we'll come up i think we can come up this way
i think so we just met the owner dale he was just as precious and as welcoming as he
possibly could be um again three of the same rows of sharon right and then look at these hydrangeas
just gorgeous again there's three of them together there's i think one of those one of those because
it's just so massive but just gorgeous and then here we go back up to where we kind of started
back here with the beautiful line of panicle hydrangeas that are absolutely gorgeous
and then on this side of the driveway we didn't talk about that they have more groups of roses of
sharon so there's again in a group of three right so you space them out appropriately based off of
what their mature size is so again big statement it's just absolutely beautiful down on this side
of the driveway there's more barberries the barberries are those nice dark foliage
on the low end and then behind it is are those great chartreuse arborvities with some more
tall rows of sharons back there again i know this is a little bit of a different
garden tour because i can't specifically say oh well this is this plant and this is this plant
because it is a trial garden and in the world of plant development sometimes keeping things
tight lipped is very important and certain we certainly don't want to do anything that could
jeopardize any potential new products coming out into the market but the gardens continue here
i will say this i bet i just realized this i know what this arch is
jerry do you know what this arch is this is not a secret
i don't think maybe it is i have a feeling i know what this is because this is a kind of a famous
i should have asked him about that but that'll just be a teaser so if you recognize the arch you
can tell us what maybe i don't know side note there but again like there's roses over here
that they have um i will say that there's going to be a lot of fun things coming out
but again they will sit on these plants for years and years and years just to make sure that
they are hardy that they bloom as long as they possibly can that they are not prone to diseases
that's why truly proven winners are proven winners because they have to prove themselves for years
and years and years before they ever come to the market before they ever come into our gardens i
hope you have found this fun i hope you found it inspirational again i know it's a little bit of
a different garden tour but again it is meant to inspire so you find those shrubs that you really
like and use the techniques that we have talked about putting them in groups of three using them
in big you know groupings to make a huge impact or use a single large one to make a specimen piece
again gardening is just full of possibilities very artistic and so you do what works
really well in your garden be the best student of your garden as always thank you so much for
gardening with creekside a huge massive thank you to spring meadow and the whole family for
allowing us to do this to be here and to stay here at this precious cottage as always thanks so
much for gardening with creekside you all have a fantastic day we'll see you next time bye friends