hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today I have
got some landscaping inspiration for you we are standing in the front corner of
our house and we have a perfect bed it's a great bed it's about a 15 foot by 15
foot right off the front of our porch this is our bathroom right behind us and
this bed gives us lots of opportunities to fill
it with gorgeous summer color so I want to share with you today what I have
dreamed up for this year kind of share my thoughts with it about how I came up
with this idea and to maybe hopefully inspire you to come up with an easy
solution to fill a relatively large space that will give you months and
months of color all the way from Spring until fall so what we're going to be
using are all Proven Winners annuals we have Diamond Mountain we have the
Supertunia Bordeaux and we have the Graceful Grass Vertigo last year in this
bed i still used the Diamond Mountain which was brand new last year and it did
gorgeous instead of the Bordeaux I used the Supertunia Vista Bubblegum and I
used the Prince Tut grass and I had actually planted in the front row here
the Lemon Coral sedum now we are in North Carolina zone 7b so the Lemon
Coral sedum is actually a perennial for us here I left it in the ground this
past fall into the winter because I wanted to see what it was going to do so
this is a bit of an experiment for me this year
I may love it and it may do great or I may decide yeah maybe not so much and
pull it out but you can see below me what it looks like right now in
mid-April I've not done anything to it of course just keep the weeds out of it
but this is what it looks like after a winter in North Carolina so that is a
win-win as far as I'm concerned I have as far as spaced out here in this bed my
vision of this is that the Vertigo grass is a large giant I would say purple
fountain grass because it can get really tall and it is going to fill in this
space with its deep dark purple blades of grass it is going to be an absolute
showstopper now to really accentuate and highlight its dark colors I have planted
where I'm going to plant a hedge of the Diamond Mountain behind it I did this
last year and by the end of the year Diamond Mountain was two to three feet tall
Proven Winners specifically bred the Diamond Mountain euphorbia to be a great
landscape euphorbia it makes a massive impact of these white airy blooms and it will
easily grow together and form a hedge spacing on these I was very technical on
it in fact I was so technical I just did it by my foot width length rather so my
foot is about of 10 inches apart so I put my foot down
I had one plant on my heel and I had one plant on my toe and I just evenly spaced
them behind me behind me I have 15 of them going from tip to tip of the
flowerbed they'll easily grow together then we have the gorgeous Supertunia
Bordeaux Bordeaux is just this glorious color of purple but light lavender and
then these dark dark centers we're using 1 gallon petunias here they're going to
give me instant impact I will instantly tell that this bed has been planted and
it will have gorgeous flowers so we're going to go ahead and get started on
planting it now Proven Winners did send me this great little gadget to test out
and to see how I liked it I've used it once and it was fantastic
so let me show it to you this is there hopefully I'm getting the name right the
Twist n' Plant auger so this is our drill and then this auger is
from Proven Winners it is super duper heavy-duty even in our North Carolina
thick thick red clay this guy does not care and it just makes the perfect hole
for your 4-inch material so we're gonna get started digging some holes
all right so this little guy made very quick work
of digging those 15 holes it is fantastic I love this thing takes a
little bit of getting used to as far as getting your speed right but once you do
man this thing is awesome
so the auger made really quick work of getting those holes dug so I'm going to go
back pop in Diamond Mountains into the holes at this point you get to decide do
you want to put your slow-release fertilizer in the hole with the plant or
do you want to sprinkle it around it honestly at this point it is just faster
and easier for me just to drop it in the hole first I'm going to use the Proven
Winners slow-release fertilizer because it has everything but these plants need
for a four-inch material it takes very little like a teaspoon or less so it's
just going to be a quick little shake we're going to plop in the Diamond
Mountain and bam those will be done
okay so I've got my mess cleaned up and I've planted the Diamond Mountain now
we're going to work on this Vertigo grass now I told you that this auger does
the four inch material perfect but it also will make a wonderful hole for
about one gallon and all I have to do is a couple of different little
holes right here together really loosens up this little then I'll use my shovel
to get the extra dirt out
okay guys so this is the next morning last night we did not beat the sun
setting and so we ran out of daylight so we are back here the next morning to
give you a recap of this gorgeous bed now I want to reiterate one thing about
this flower bed it does stay in the shade until about 11 o'clock in the
morning but then after that it gets the full afternoon hot sun because all of
these plants really do require that full sun amount of daylight which is six
hours of direct sunlight remember in the back we have the Diamond Mountain it is
the perfect landscape euphorbia as it will get easily two to three feet tall
and it will get nice and wide and that will just create this lovely gorgeous
hedge of white frothy flowers here in the middle for our thriller is the
Vertigo Graceful Grass it is a huge purple fountain grass that can get
easily four to eight feet tall just based on how much water you give it
remember I did put a little irrigation line on that so it's going to get lots
of water so I expect it to get nice and big and full it will be that deep dark
purple absolutely stunning and then here in the front we did Supertunia Bordeaux
which is a lovely purple petunia from Proven Winners these were one gallon
pots we space them roughly about twelve to eighteen inches apart from each other
but there are two plants in each of those pots so they will fill in this
whole area with just a carpet of purple blooms and then in the front I have my
Lemon Coral sedum that was actually planted this time last year but because
we're in North Carolina in a zone seven it is a perennial for us so this bed
took a little bit of effort to put everything in but it is going to give us
months and months of gorgeous blooms flowers interest foliage it is going to
be fantastic then maintenance on this will be of course
that you need to water it and then once my slow release fertilizer runs out in
about three months then I will begin that water-soluble regimen so that
everybody has lots of food because remember food equals flowers no food no
flowers and we want to have lots of flowers
so feeding your plants a regular rotation of good quality fertilizer is
very important I hope that you have found this video helpful that you have
learned something that you have been inspired to create a beautiful space in
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you