hello friends welcome to gardening with greekside i am jenny and welcome to our weekly nursery tour
i will go ahead and tell you that today is saturday is about 20 minutes before
the nursery opens so you might hear some different you know ruckuses going on and all sorts of things
um so just forgive any background noise or people that may randomly appear um i have
a couple of exciting things to share with you as far as plants go because we got in two shipments
of plants this week very excited to show them to you also it is fall now is the go time for
planting perennials trees shrubs in your garden remember the fall is just the perfect time to
go ahead and get those guys into the ground that way their roots can get really well established
during the rest of the fall winter early spring before the summer heat hits during those times
you may not see any growth up top it's all the action is happening down in below the soil
where your roots are really growing and getting strong and happy so this is the perfect time
to plant like i said those perennials trees and shrubs so speaking of let's talk about those ones
that we got in yesterday behind me you will see this wonderful forest of trees there is quite an
assortment of plants in here we'll just go through them and kind of talk about them just a little bit
up close i have maple trees these are red maple trees i believe these are the flame
we'll put all the information up on the screen i don't remember all the details so if you if
i'm talking about a plant i'll have the details on the screen this is a great one a fast-growing tree
will provide lots of great summer shade and then in the fall it will turn this gorgeous
shade of red love these trees we have one of them in our side yard this will be i believe it's third
season in there it's been in the graph about two and a half years but it'll be its third fall
and it is just growing and doing great so if you need a shade tree and fall interest
these maples are great choices we ordered some crepe myrtles for customer of hours
so these are beautiful this is the tuscarora i believe yes tuscarora will get a nice size
beautiful pink blooms on it so we've got three of those in here just doing great and then over here
this is for a landscape job that we're doing this is a river birch now in the south we can get a
little iffy on river birches because we tend to get a little bit too warm this is the dura heat
hence its name it is the most heat tolerant river birch if you're in the south this would be a great
choice for you but you love river birches because you can see it's got three trunks river birches
are similar to crepe myrtles in the fact that a lot of their beautiful interest comes from their
trunks because their bark will peel beautiful just a fantastic tree lots of great interest and then
we're going to try to see if we can come over here these guys are redbuds redbud is a native tree
to the southeast and i'm sure other parts of the country this particular one is a flame thrower
flame thrower if you can see has beautiful different colors as far as the foliage so
you've got your new growth is almost that red a little bit of yellow orange into it and as
the leaves mature they'll turn to a green really an interesting tree in the spring
red buds are just covered in little tee tiny pink blooms that come directly off the bark
the blooms themselves are very very small but there's thousands upon thousands of them so they
make a really neat interesting big eye-catching tree for your yard red buds also will have some
some a little bit of a funk to them as far as some interest because their stems are
not perfectly straight say like the maple they'll have curves to them so you'll have a little bit of
some fun interest in the weightiness of the trunk these are staked once they get really established
it will get a nice trunk on it and you won't really have to worry about it
we also got in here we're in the middle of sorting so yesterday we thought oh well the
truck came around lunchtime we thought oh we'll have plenty of time to get it unloaded yeah well
we had great customers yesterday so of course we want to spend our time with our customers and
not worrying about moving plants another great thing we got in is another order another round
of the limelight trees these are so popular with our customers and rightly so
this is a limelight hydrangea trained into a tree form you will hear them called standards
what they are is they have those beautiful classic hydrangea blooms on them these are new little buds
they will bloom out through the fall and they just have gorgeous interest to them these do wonderful
if you want to like put it in the center of a flower bed an under plant around it you can put
it on the corner of your house if you want to have a structure there quote a tree but not committing
to like a full-size tree that could get 20 feet tall then your hydrangea standard is a great
option because it still gives you that structure and the look of a tree without being so massive
and large like a tree so we have those in stock as well um we're going to come over here just
for a second this the sun is coming up so forgive us if the camera is a little funky right now but
one thing that i'm really interested was excited about and we're going to come into the shade
this is a great perennial the common name of this is a yellow rain lily i will put the scientific
name up there on the screen because i'm not even going to try to pronounce it
these are fantastic perennials in zones seven to nine i believe and they do those beautiful i'm
going to let jerry see if he can zoom up on that just bright sunny yellow blooms on it it will be
a nice and petite plant this is really as tall as it's going to get the foliage is semi-evergreen
so that means it will not completely disappear in the winter i'm sure in the warmer you go the
more foliage you will keep and just gorgeous this does great for i believe it's sun to part shade
kind of in rocky areas and will naturalize over time so this is something really fun
that i saw on the list it was unusual looked it up i thought oh this will be fun and so we grabbed it
um so we these have got to be moved and then i don't know jerry can you get this is it too sunny
for you to get he's looking at me like no let's go over there okay so we decorated with some of
those of course we have the aqua pots this is the lily leaf and antique white remember aqua pots are
just gorgeous self-watering containers they are ceramic they're handmade in vietnam
michael carr is the artist who designs the pots jack barnwell was the one who came up
with the whole system of the self-watering concept there's just three pieces to it
it works beautiful we this is our second summer using them and they have done amazing and then
proven winners is really the one that is marketing and providing these containers so we have those we
have we have multiple colors of those that you can come and choose from now look at this are
you ready those of you that have followed us for a long time i'm not going to say anything but just
see something a little different
greenhouses are down they're almost gone that is the goal for the day is to get all this cleaned
up if you heard a little bit of racket in the beginning i don't know what the mic was picking up
but we had we had our great crew on flatbed trailers had loaded these pieces up and
we're hauling them out but if you will remember greenhouses are coming down we are going to move
them to the production area and put them up there we started thinking about it we're like you know
what it just makes more sense for us to keep them then sell them and we'll put them up there and use
them as um for whatever purposes but we're going to replace it with a more customer retail friendly
48 by 48 gutter connect you will see that whole process but i thought y'all would be interested in
seeing that they are gone mums we have mums look at these these are the ones that are in full bloom
just spectacular um we basically have every color we've got orange the pink yellow reds whites down
there on the end so these are the ones that are in full bloom we do have of course ones
that are going to be coming in that are just now starting to crack color we place them over here
between what was the greenhouses and the barn so they're over there so depend if you don't
want it in full bloom if you want it just to show start showing some color we have those available
and then we have ones that will bloom more towards the end of october the other fun thing
that we got this week were pansies so they are wet with dew this morning so
their little faces are kind of downturned but they are beautiful and they are fantastic
for us in the south pansies are a fall winter very early spring crop pansies thrive and grow in cool
conditions for us in the summer it's way too hot really about april may is when it starts they
can go through may if you're lucky they may go through june but we use these as winter crops to
give us those colors beautiful now let me tell you this the difference between a pansy and a viola
is one you will be able to physically tell the difference if i can get this
undone here so i have a sweet little viola johnny jump ups people will also also call
them nice petite they look like a mini petunia so then on the other hand we have the petunia
petunias of course have nice big fat happy faces they make a great impact from a big distance
both of these need to be full sun they do not perform well in the shade they need that full
sun conditions the difference really is that the violas will perform and flower better even
in the colder parts of the winter in our coldest parts of the winter the pansies kind of go dormant
like they're not the the foliage is still there but they may not be producing a lot of blooms
your violas will perform better during those cold months so you can use these interchangeably you
can however you want to do it but just so you know the difference between a pansy and a viola
that's the main difference more performance during the colder parts of the months
than the pansies yes they are smaller blooms but they typically will have more blooms on a plant
so they can still make a great impact from a distance but they are both considered full
sun so we've got just a wide range of colors we've got your silver artemisia this makes a
fantastic accent plant even when it's wet you can still see the silvery foliage on it is wonderful
the grasses we've got both annual grasses and perennial grasses that you can put in with your
fall arrangements these are all desert plains down here so if you were to put your desert
planes in a container of course it's going to go brown once you hit it have a freeze but in
the spring you can easily either leave it in the container and let it come back in that container
or you can go ahead and put it in the ground and let it you know have your perennial grass there
but we do love those desert plains eventually in the ground they'll be like a four by four
super easy on those of course we've got the color and then we also have some fun textures
so we have got the ornamental kale and cabbage both in the reds and the whites
we've got the more upright the more traditional cabbage shape and that red and the white
again this is so this is kale the red variety a traditional green variety is there as well
we do have a couple of white wonders left over and white wonder caladium of course is still
could be a great option for you so if you wanted to put this in a container with pansies underneath
it especially if you've got something going on right now that would do really really well
in those containers and then we've also got this would be a really fun addition this is the proven
winners sweet romance lavender these are ones that we were growing ourselves they're doing
great they're beautiful this would be a fun neat different kind of texture to put in a container
with those fall annuals or if you had it you know want to put in the ground go ahead and put it in
the ground it smells amazing when heather brought these down it was just they were just the sweetest
best smelling i mean it's lavender right gotta love that all right let's move over real quick
to the pines and the shade garden and let's talk about some really fun other perennials that we got
because there's some good ones all right come on we're gonna go across we're gonna go across
the bridge give you an update on the planter look at that cleopatras are still going strong
doing amazing uh okay so they brought them over here i just have to figure out where they put
everybody because my sweet people unloaded and i'm not oh here they are come over here
we got a a lot of fun hostas in that are nice nice good size so for all of you who have loved the
refrigerator behind me with the drinking gourd we are growing drinking gourd but it's still
in the baby stage we got some two gallons in so if you're looking for a drinking gourd
these are of a nice size so we have those that you can come get and then over here
these are the ones that i'm really super excited about
this mass right here these nice big hostas this is white feather hosta this is the only hosta
that i know of that when in the spring when it emerges from the ground the leaves are pure
white hence its name white feather you can tell that it's going to be more of an upright vase like
hosta clearly it will turn green as the season progresses as you can see that it is all green
right now but in the spring when it emerges it is just the neatest looking plant very unique
i'll try to find a picture of it so that you can really see what it looks like in all of its glory
it's just a great plant so with the hosta because it can be a little bit on the more tall upright
side this would be great in the middle or the back of your shade garden just depending on
where you put it and of course it blooms just like fantastic houses that we love and then over here
we saw this hosta when we were visiting walters gardens in michigan remember that is our supplier
when we order perennials they have a fantastic shade garden this is wrinkle in time let me
try to find one for you it is going to be a nice short one so whereas white feather is very upright
again in the back or the middle of the bed wrinkle in time is going to be at the front of your bed
it's only going to be about 9 inches tall and that would probably include the scape the flower scape
on it nice petite extreme um weightiness to the leaves it has that variegated color
it is beautiful very unique that's the thing i love about hostas in a hosta bed is that you can
combine all sorts of different colors and textures you still just have only hostas but you could just
have so much color and texture in that bed so wrinkle in time is a great one we have those
jerry i was trying to find the um the flowering ones do you know where they the sun went over
here okay we're going to show you one more because we have customers waiting at the gate so we got a
chop chop you know jenny i could just sit here and talk to you about plants all the live long day
but doing these nursery tours i was like the gates if you get here one day and you know that
we're open but the gate is closed we'll open it at nine so just don't fret my pet we will take care
of you ah here they are so we have um all the cat mints the daisies all these are perennials
would be great this is what i was looking for here we go now this is a fun new introduction
and this is a cross between an echinacea and a rudbeckia so they took the two and they
bred them together they will be perennials from zones 7a to 9b i believe and they're uh
so those are our people getting the rest of the bless them i love them um sorry i digress they
didn't want to end up filming and it's okay but these are great perennials for fall color i mean
massive blooms look at that huge now of course these have been been through the ringer as far
as like they've been transported back and forth but you can see that they're still putting on
new growth so we've got buds in here just beautiful massive
fantastic fall color lots of options here so the customers are starting to roll in so that
is our signal that we are going to sign off as always thank you so much for gardening with
creekside you all have a fantastic day and we'll see you in the next video bye friends