Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside and on today's video, we're going to show you a
little bit of a behind-the-scenes tour here up at the production area a lot of you have
maybe seen inside the greenhouses where we grow all of our annuals but today we're going to spend
some time out here on the production shrublot this is an ever-evolving ever-changing ever moving
space i think most of you know that we have little t-shirts that are on the back it says professional
plant movers because here at the nursery you're constantly pulling plants and moving plants around
recently our sweet folks here at creekside have gotten everything kind of reorganized for this
kind of going into summer season so i thought it would be fun to bring you up here and to show you
what the production lot looks like for the vast majority of behind me and to the left of me are
going to be shrubs and then over here to the right are all of the sun loving perennials so we try to
categorize and put plants in big blocks so that they're easy to find but we're also going to be
coming next week or this week rather i don't know soon we're going to be potting up mums so you
might see behind us we've got some folks working jerry is expanding this shrub lot we're going
to have a new area for the mums and then all the way over behind the trailer and where the bobcat
is we are going to have um an extended shrub lot because not only do we have mums that are going to
go out there but we have our new arrival of little baby shrub liners coming from spring meadows so
there's always a growing season even though we're in june going into july we are still potting up
that is a year-round thing for us so while we're up here i thought we could just highlight
some of the fantastic perennials and shrubs and that you might be interested in to come
shop here at creekside so one of my favorites new plants for us is the this is boom chocolata it is
a geranium perennial geranium that has a beautiful dark foliage on it with those really kind of light
lavender blue flowers this is a sun-loving plant with that sun it gets a nice dark color on it
this will be hardy in zones four to eight and it can get up to about two feet tall so two feet walk
tall and then it will spread so this is a great little addition quote ground cover if you will to
add into your perennial bed i added three of these to the gatsby gal bed i had a little corner that i
needed to fill in boom nice and easy beautiful low maintenance plant we love that and then of course
you can't go wrong with the sweet romance lavender from proven winters this is doing really well up
here as you can tell that it is kind of on this end of its first set of blooms major pollinator
attractor and of course it just has that beautiful lavender scent to it these make great little cut
flowers you can either cut the flowers and bring them in and dry them and make little sachets with
them super easy here in the south of course with our red clay soil i do have to worry sometimes
about the clay holding too much water because lavender likes it tends to be on the dry side
i put mine in a container and it is doing really really well so that is exciting and encouraging
and then moving on down while we're here to the left of me are the butterfly bushes
so all the butterfly bushes are in this whole section we start with some of the puxters
we've got pugster pink look at this nice big beautiful blooms on it that's what's so great
about the pugsters is that they may be short in stature but their blooms are nice and full size
really nice and full and thick and of course the butterflies just absolutely love them so this is
the pink and then look at this is amethyst right here in front of me and you can see it has that
nice kind of that lavender purple color a nice light purple and again nice and thick they are
just now starting to bloom and they these have sat out all winter so this is their traditional
their own schedule for being how they're to bloom because even mine at the house i have
pugster white they're not quite as advanced as these are because they don't get quite as much
sun as these guys do so you'll notice as we make our way down through here we'll have all
the different butterfly bushes again full sun they thrive on kind of neglect once you get them in the
ground they hate to be fertilized they don't like compost they just kind of want to be left alone
minimal water i mean they're just one of those great easy peasy plants that we love and then
of course banana cream to shasta daisy this is one of my all-time favorite perennials
because it has the beautiful blooms on it classic shasta daisy shape but with a little bit of a spin
on the color it is called banana cream 2 because it's the improved version of banana cream and it's
called banana cream because the new blooms start out a really nice soft banana yellow and then as
they age and mature they will lighten up so on the same plant you get that variation of color
which reminds people of a banana cream pie again lots of sun with these guys they tend to like
a little bit on the dry side they hate to be like sitting in wet feet if they have constant
moisture they will rot even if it's in full sun if it's damp they will rot so you need to have
well-draining soil for these guys now we're coming into echinacea land echinacea we've got some
right here and then we've got some more um just down in the another block these are the adobes
the adobe's not yes oh yes adobe orange it's the sombrero series which do really well for us
really nice hot colors so echinaceas are of course just an iconic perennial with this adobe orange
really kind of a clemson orange it is going to be 18 to 20 inches tall
and zones four to nine so if you can get your hands on any of those
sombrero series you're gonna love them because they're again nice and bold and wonderful
here we have the white you will see this little sea of fuzzy white this is called lesser catmint i
really dislike that name because there is nothing lesser about this plant it is fantastic it is a
massive pollinator attractor we are up here kind of early in the morning so things are still wet
and cool but you can see little miss honeybee here she was one of the first ones out this morning
lesser cat mint is a huge huge pollinator attractor it will bloom all season long
it gets taller than say like cats pajamas of course it has those beautiful white blooms on it
and it is hardy in zones five to nine full sun i have several of these along in the patio beds
because they're just great easy plants ruby spider ruby spider is blooming look at this
this is a fantastic day lily from proven winters part of their rainbow rhythm series i have several
ruby spiders in the cottage garden these blooms are absolutely massive the plants get huge and
ruby spider just has that nice big bold presence in your garden just an absolute fantastic day lily
i love it um so i wanted to show it to you while it's blooming and then monarda this was one of my
like 15 favorite southern perennials this particular one this is the leading lady plum
and lady and lady plum of course has that beautiful lavender plum purple color
and the leading lady series is going to stay smaller so um they only get to be about
14 inches tall so it's going to get a little bit taller and then of course the mound just gets
huge i have these in the at the nursery what i call lara's bed and they were planted at this size
but i am not exaggerating they are huge like one mound is just massive
full of color huge pollinator tractor the hummingbirds go nuts over monarda and then
we've got alliums we have two different kinds of alliums this year alliums of
course are just i mean they're onions they're ornamental onions so we have lavender bubbles
and lavender bubbles is one from walters gardens nice big huge fat kind of a bluish gray leaves
on them you can see how healthy these plants are very happy hardy and zones four to eight
again they like it lots of sun a little bit on the dry side and just again a huge pollinator
attractor but those blooms they go nuts and then some more of the sombreros we've got the gold
the yellow just a fantastic especially when it's like really the heat starts to hit that's when
they really kind of come into their own and just bring you loads of color for that summer season
and then here is the serendipity so serendipity is of course well known from proven winners
very much kind of similar in the lavender bubbles i believe lavender bubbles is going
to get a little bit bigger still hardy in zones four to eight growing conditions very similar
i mean basically because they're the exact same plant alliums ornamental onions but there are some
slight differences in size and appearance so we've got those so if you're looking for some of those
we've got them and then of course the dianthus the fantastic flocks love this
this is the opal essence lots of different color nice sweet smell wonderful now let's
talk hydrangeas we're going to come we're going to tiptoe through the shrublot here
so this whole area is going to turn into more like production area so all of that whole area will
be production i think when we measured it out it was like what fifteen thousand square feet um so
lots of stuff going on here at creekside of course if you're looking for a beautiful petite hydrangea
this is the one that i planted up near at the gate to the entrance this is the let's dance ariba
it is ph dependent so around here it will turn that blue purple and then look at these beauties
beautiful absolutely gorgeous these are the new quickfire fabs and quick fire fab are a fantastic
panicle hydrangea hearty enzymes three to eight they need that full sun but they just come
have really strong sturdy stems absolutely gorgeous getting ready to turn jerry and i
are dancing with the sun here they start out the creamy white and then they will turn a beautiful
red quickfires are fantastic even here in the south sometimes we don't get a color on
our panticles but man i mean look how tight and upright there is no floppy stems here we actually
had a storm come through last night and you can see that everybody is nice and tight and upright
and trying to keep jerry from tripping over a plant and then we have the double play doozies
doozies are fantastic again like a three by three shrub really nice hot pink blooms on them they've
gone through their first flush of blooms but their new foliage is that great kind of that burgundy
color to it really fun and where was oh over here here we go we've got bobo's right here so bobo
hydrangeas they are a panicle they have their buds they're just going to be a little bit more
behind the quickfire fab is one of the first panicles to bloom but bobo is another panicle
sun loving um pure white flowers that will age to a little bit of a pink extremely hearty because it
is a panicle it is guaranteed to bloom every year and it's only going to be like three feet tall
but it can be like four feet wide so it'll be a little wider than it is tall so perfect for maybe
an area where you can't have a big hydrangea now one more hydrangea that i'm just i have
to show you because this is oh my gosh one of my favorites we um growing these this is incredible
so incredible hydrangea is an improved version of an annabelle and they have that classic mop head
bloom on it huge white blooms blooms on new growth so you want to prune it every for us late february
we have these behind the seating wall at the patio and they are glorious they are absolutely
covered in blooms right now they are absolutely stunning um incredibles again mine are in full sun
like from the moment the sun comes up the sun goes down they are in full hot sun all day they are on
irrigation they get water like three times a week um but they are doing great they're just wonderful
plants and they can be four four to five feet tall and wide so if you want a reliable easy massive
huge performer then incredible is definitely a top option for you and because it blooms relatively
early like right now my plants are covered in blooms if i will start to cut some of those blooms
off and use them as bouquets then essentially i'm still pruning the plant but it doesn't it's not
an official prune right you're just clipping the blooms to bring them in to make vases then that
will encourage new growth so i will probably get a second flush of brand new blooms later this fall
so i can have a completely new flush of blooms in late fall and it will be absolutely gorgeous so
incredibles they are called incredibles for no reason because they are incredible plants with
these gorgeous huge white blooms as balls on them i think we're going to wrap it up today because
they have got a lot of work to do and the sun is popping up so these are just a sampling of some
of the things that we have here so come see us and we would love to help you however we can if
you're not local get out to your local garden center no matter even if you're in those cold
climates i think everything is starting to wake up so visit your local garden center ask about
some of these plants or ask about plants that they recommend for your area because those folks
are the experts for your climate in your area of the country or the world so as always thanks so
much regarding the creekside y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends
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