over the years there are some things that we have come to know
one of those is that no two days are ever the same
come with me as we spend today here at creekside nursery there's no telling
what's gonna happen
hey friends welcome to gardening with creekside it is jenny
today i thought it would be fun to kind of spend the day with me to go through
and see what an average typical day here at the nursery is like
because no two days are ever the same here we think we have a plan of what's
going to happen and then sometimes it goes that way but
oftentimes there are some things that get thrown in there
and it goes differently so we're going to be spending some time
today at the house doing some different odds and end chores
we've got a plant delivery coming we have
a stone delivery coming for a new project we're working on in the backyard
um just some everyday fun stuff what we're gonna do first is we are actually
racing against the sun we are standing here in the front of our house it is the
middle of july it's hot it's humid but there are some
things that i need to get done one of those things is trimming the boxwoods
behind me we have it took us several years to
figure out what works in the front of our house
and we finally figured out that these boxwoods do the absolute best now i know
some of y'all have really strong opinions about boxwoods
i personally really like them in the right setting
and here at our house they work great boxwoods do a little
require a little bit of maintenance and they have to be trimmed for us it's
really just once a year so you can see that they've got nice new
growth on them and i just want to shape them up for the season this is the
middle of july again i'm gonna do it now has a nice shape they'll put on new
growth but they'll have plenty of time for that new growth to harden off
so that when we hit the fall and hit the winter and our first freeze this new
growth will be nice and tough and it won't get burnt
if i were to wait and trim these in say late august or september they're
still going to put on new growth but it may not be enough time for them to
harden off as soon as we get a good hard freeze all of that will turn
brown so imagine this plant with all these little brown stems and
that would stay there all winter not very attractive so i'm just going to
go through and we're going to shape these up these
particular ones we just try to keep them trimmed back there is a
yellow jackets nest underneath one of these box woods that's
right up here so i am going to do my dead level best
not to get stung by yellow jackets if you're not familiar with yellow
jackets they are these nasty devilish wasp-like bugs and they're just
mean so they'll just come out after you for no reason but they put their nest in
the ground so they're not like a hornet where they
have an actual paper nest they're in the ground and we have
figured out that they are at the back of the base of this
boxwood so jenny's gonna do her best not to get stung
all right let's get to trimming
oh stop stop stop stop moving back up
oh lord son don't do that to me
where's
all right
that was some excitement
okay guys so the boxwoods have been trimmed
and just as i predicted something unusual happened
jackson was helping me trim that very last boxwood
and our friend mr blacksnake had decided to make that his home for this morning
so he kind of gave us a little scare when i saw his head pop out at the
bottom of the boxwood but we stopped and he
went on his merry sweet little way down into vertigo
and the bordeaux so he's hanging out there he was a good size
anyway like i said never know what's going to happen now what we're going to
do is i'm going to clean all this debris up
and then we're going to mulch it move on to the next project
okay folks so i am we've talked about this area before this is the shade bed
believe it or not and so remember i tell you that it gets some
morning sun well this is the intense morning sun that it
gets but behind me is frannie's hydrangea
and you can see that her blooms are done we have
figured out thanks to you fantastic viewers
that she is a shooting star which can also be known as a fuji waterfall
hydrangea so that's what she is um she does bloom on old growth so that
means if i'm going to prune her now is the time of year to prune her she
may bloom again late late fall probably not it'll be
next spring so i need to trim her because clearly
she's very big and she's going to take over
so we're just going to go for it and get in there shape her up i'm not going to
cut her back really severe because that could put a lot of stress on her
i'm just going to clean her up tidy her up some
we'll see how she looks when she gets done
uh no because emily's down there with miss cadence and that's their time
to hang out okay megan's in the house somewhere
so see you garden you parent it all goes together at the same time
now i am trimming her up this way because
she was going into the solomon seal so i want to have
time for that solomon seal to be able to grow back some
plus she was completely covering up this heuchera this is a dale's
strain she was covering that up so i really needed to trim her back this way
i'm going to take some top off of her and then
trim her up off the house because she's up against the house and i don't want
the paint to turn yucky and all that other good stuff
no honey
i know it's hard to think about pruning your hydrangeas back
especially when they've got blooms on them but
i'm not going to be using these blooms for as far as arrangements and things
like that so now is the time to do it because
if i were to wait and do it any later i'm not going to have blooms really well
next year so a pruning is a good thing it's hard but
it's necessary
plant delivery it's exciting
okay so we just got our shipment of perennials from
walters gardens all the way from michigan and you can see
we've got perennial plugs we've got some bare roots we've just got all sorts of
fun things so we are going to dig in here and see
what we have fedex is just leaving there's always
something going on here delivery so forth so hostas
i mean ferns dianthus shasta daisies salvia
oh pulmonaria it's a great um perennial for the shade it's got
gorgeous color on it all so exciting
okay friends it is i don't even know i think it's like 5:30
in the afternoon and i'm hot and i'm sweaty and i'm
tired i'm ready for my iced coffee but it has been a good day it has been
productive it has been a normal day here at the nursery and at the house some
things didn't go quite as planned we were
expecting to get that load of stone for the new patio
but it is going to come tomorrow along with
a tractor-trailer delivery of potting soil so that
way we can start putting up all those gorgeous perennials that we just got
so we're going to go in and have a great cool
night in the air-conditioned house and we will see you bright and early
tomorrow so this is not a 24 hour in the day of well
it may be actually 24 i don't know anyway it's going to be a
whole day's worth plus a little bit more for tomorrow because it didn't happen
today so we'll see in the morning
okay guys so it is the next morning it's morning's halfway gone it's already like
10 30 or 11 o'clock um we are here potting up the perennials
that we got yesterday right now we're working on day lilies
so to give you an idea of how a daylily comes to us this is called a bare root
so this is a really nice size bare roots but we love walters gardens because they
send us nice good sized root stock
so this is where the daylily growth will come out these are the roots
um interesting to plant because you can't fill the pot up all the way
um fill it up put the root in and then go ahead and fill it back up
but this is what it will look like we'll stick them out make sure they get lots
of good water and before you know it they will
start growing it's a great thing about day lilies is that they're fast growers
so we've already got a good number here going the one that we're working on
right now is this is a fun one king of the ages
just a really pretty peach and burgundy one nice and pretty ruffled
edges but we got a lot to do so we're going to get to potting
ah see this is great
this fella has got it going on he's got his little lift truck
the bags were all wrapped up that's just the blue
wrapping oh this is what we love people
yay for southern ag that's the company that this is coming from
we've learned over the years that getting the right equipment makes all
the difference in the world
to the back of the barn it goes
all right so this is so exciting we just got the truck arrived for
our new patio area that's going to be a massive project
but cannot wait to get this off the truck
this is belgard with different stone let's see
if we can get the name the la fit gran and the hatteras
color so that is going to be what the patio floor
is going to be and then down here there we go
is the stone that's going to be for the retaining walls the sitting wall
and the fire pit so now we get to get this unloaded and look at it i'm so
excited
okay so all of the stone is relatively in place it's all brought
back here so just to give you a bit of an overview
now we're gonna have lots of videos about this because it's gonna be a
massive project got my megan here with me but
back here obviously this is the back of our house it's a hot mess
just go with it but we had an above ground pool
here for it was a good amount of time i don't know
eight years or so and um had a deck with it and everything so the kids
loved it learned how to swim there but it was
eight nine years old and it was time to come out so
we decided to rip it out and we're going to put more of an outdoor living space
there instead of another pool because if we get another
pool we would like to do an in in ground but that's still to be
determined um but back here so we're going to have
steps so you can see the pile of gravel up against the house
those will be curved steps up along the length of each of those
walls will be a low retaining wall less than three
feet and then there'll be planting beds behind it
then the whole area where the gravel is will all be pavers
we'll have a fire pit where these three tall stakes are
will be relatively in that vicinity will be a curved low seating wall
um going to work on that little section that's left
of the deck there's just a whole lot of projects going on here so just stay
tuned for that but we wanted to show you of course what a typical day
at creekside looks like this video was supposed to be one day and then it
turned into two days because deliveries got messed up and everything
but we just wanted you to see how we just kind of hop from one thing to the
next there's always things that come up that are unexpected
like right now this tractor trailer that delivered it
bless him he's trying to get out and he's doing something with the gravel
he was a super nice guy but he may have to back up and
i don't know so right now we're gonna sign off
and say thank you for watching hope you have found this
fun and informative we're gonna go help the tractor trailer get unstuck
from the gravel light the channel oh law y'all
maybe this video will continue because i don't know what's going up there anyway
have a great day see you next time bye
this is what i what happens christine but i don't have you and jerry here