Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and it is late in the afternoon here at
the house I have been working my little hiney off all day doing all sorts of great projects
um here in kind of the back yard patio area and to end the day we're going to plant some fun
beautiful annuals right here close to the patio and along the walkway so I am filthy I am covered
in dirt and soil and my hair is just because i have been outside all day working i got the
irrigation all fixed in the what i call the gatsby gal bed so all of those plants have beautiful
irrigation running through it as do the um dave david austin roses and the rock and playing the
blues yes playing the blues um salvia that i did the other week and then i was able to get
mulch out on the gatsby gal bed and i am telling you what y'all a fresh layer of mulch is like
if you're a lady it's like either the lipstick to the outfit or a great pair of earrings right it is
that perfect last little touch accessory that just makes the whole outfit complete it dresses it up
that area right now is positively stunning it looks great on my list you know i'm always
very ambitious i thought oh well i can get that whole area of mulch today too
no so what we're going to do is end the day with planting some annuals so i have three areas that
we're going to focus on one is the area right here off the patio this is where the yellow tulips were
and the daffodils that proven winners sent us they have been pulled out i'm going to relocate the
daffodils i believe um in the bed behind me and it'll be kind of in the back that way as the old
foliage you know takes up its nutrients for next year and is dying back it won't drive me crazy
i didn't want to have them right here because this is a high visibility area and for your daffodils
to that's the best way to treat them is after they bloom you just leave them alone until the foliage
completely turns brown and dies away and this really is like an annual pocket so what we're
going to plant in here today my meghan helped me come up with this one we're going to plant
luscious pink berry blend lantana let's see if i can get a nice zoom in on that it is a beautiful
color of pale pink white and a very light yellow now the pinkberry blend is going to
get 20 to 30 inches tall and then the minimum spacing on this was 18 inches the max was 24. i
definitely went for the minimum spacing you can see that i've placed them out i want this area
to be just a huge blanket of the lantana because lantana loves it hot it loves
the full sun it attracts your butterflies and your hummingbirds all those wonderful
little critters in our garden that we love so i have the gardenias and then the nine bark
so this will all fill in quite nicely and then in front of that i'm gonna do a little pocket of the
sunstar pink pentas now the pink is a definite light light pink color um we're going to try to
get this to zoom in correctly and jerry said it did so 18 to 22 inches tall but see look at that
can you see those two colors together isn't that just a really pretty color combination
again if you will remember here at the patio i'm trying to control myself and to keep the light
cool colors because when we're going to be out here most of the time it will be this time of
day into the evening because it is so hot so we are going to plant these babies here i have got my
power planter auger i'm going to zip zip zip the holes in here to plant all these guys in there
is not irrigation in here right now so i don't have to worry about any kind of irrigation lines
i'm thinking though before i mulch this area i will run some drip tubing in here
because even though these are drought tolerant once they're established
everybody can use a little drink of water and so i will do that not tonight we'll do that another
day and then we'll come back in mulch so i'm going to use my auger to zip my holes get these planted
and then i'm going to give everybody a nice little dose of the proven winter's time-release
fertilizer that'll just get sprinkled on the top because it'll get a nice continuous feed
every time it rains or we water it so without further ado we're going to get to planting
all right so area number one is planted now we're on to area number two um this is just right
down from where we just were there is a nice big empty hole right here for the unique unique stone
fountain that is going to go here when it arrives and then these are the two little lime punches
behind me which by the way are beautiful and have gorgeous foliage on them so i can't wait
to see how they do this year now this area we're going to plant the blushing princess
lobularia sweet alyssum blushing princess is a beautiful white with a little bit of a hint of
it's a kind of a cross between a little bit of a pink and a little bit of a purple so it's very
subtle but it'll give it a nice little light airy look to this space the reason that i am planting
the alyssum right here is because every time it rains or if the irrigation comes on i learned
last year that this is where all the water from up above comes through here and then goes out so
this ground especially here in the front will stay pretty damp and that is exactly what this alyssum
likes it likes to be in really kind of damp or consistently damp growing conditions and
it will get nice and fill in and get very thick and very happy and it smells delicious so all
the alyssums whether it's blushing princess white knight or snow princess they all have a beautiful
fragrance to them and i don't know about you but i like to have sweet smells in my garden
the irrigation line does run right through here so that is what that black pipe is
so it will get some moisture and then of course i try to place the alyssums somewhat close to
that drip line for now we're going to leave this area area blank because that is where
the fountain is going to go who knows i may want to end up sticking a pot in there for
filler or something so again we're going to plant these pretty close to each other they
don't get tall they get wide and so they're going to fill in and make a beautiful carpet
next to the flagstone path that goes out and then i have the cara lee petite pink
guara and rocking playing the blues salvia right here so all these colors are going
to be very happy together so again gonna do some holes and pop them in the ground
all the blushing princesses have been planted some of you may ask or may not ask okay so do i put
compost down when i'm working with my annuals yes or no as a general rule when i'm doing my annuals
in the landscape you like to have as much compost and nice nutrients in the soil as you possibly can
you're not going to see me do it here because it's already in the ground when we did the lantana and
the pentas remember when i did it in the fall i put tons of compost down so i didn't need it there
and it just when i og did man it was gorgeous here um when i was planting the david alston i
used that murray blend mix and so i did this whole bed so it had it in there not quite as enriched as
maybe the other section it's fine we're not going to lose sleep over this y'all don't make it hard
and then all of these areas did receive what my mama calls the shake and bake from proven winners
it's the little time release fertilizer you just shake it on there if you wanted to do a scoop you
can doesn't have to be that scientific just give each plant a good shake and then if you saw me in
the handy dandy bucket with my little metal bucket that is i this time of year i'm going to go ahead
and apply some pre-emergent i use preen that helps prevent the weeds so a pre-emergent just
keeps seeds from germinating it does not it's not going to kill current weeds it doesn't harm my
plants whether it's a perennial or a shrub or an annual it just prevents weeds from germinating so
do i want to use this in my garden boxes with my vegetables probably not because i could be
planting like direct soap some carrot seeds in there but here in my big beds it does give me just
that little bit of buffer to help some weeds not germinate and i will take all the help i can get
with those weeds again the irrigation is already laid in this bed i just have to come back and
apply that nice thick layer of mulch just like i did up top in the gatsby gal bed and man it will
make a massive difference now we've got one more little pocket we're gonna do and then we're gonna
be done for the day and jimmy can go in and take a hot bath and have a delicious supper so i've
got four more little pintos to plant so let's move over here and we're gonna get those in the ground
okay so here we are i've got one little pocket that this area gets smaller each year
as my shrubs get bigger which is perfectly fine with me so right here i have yin and yang viburnum
i have no idea which one is the end and i have no idea which one is yang but they have been in
the ground proven winners sent us to the sent us these as trial plants they've been in the ground
just a little bit over a year i love these plants they are an evergreen viburnum so i have one here
then one directly in front of me i'm not sure if it's in the shot and then between them there
is a little quickfire hydrangea that clearly is loving life because she is absolutely covered in
foliage right now so the area that we're going to look at is this little pocket right here
between those three shrubs there is irrigation drip line that runs through here
and then of course the light is here but that line runs back so i should be all clear to og my
four holes right here but you can tell when you have the sidewalk that these two areas will
complement each other and i've got the same plant that same penta in this bed that i do in the other
bed so when you're designing your gardens if you can repeat a plant kind of throughout the garden
it really ties in the whole space and if you can't use the same plant in all the areas maybe
in your garden stick with that color palette right and that's what i'm doing i'm trying to repeat
the plants some and have that nice light airy color palette to it so without further ado we're
going to get these four holes dug get them in the ground a little shaken bait and be good to go
all right my sweet friends jenny is done for the day it has been such a wonderful productive day
i think i have the dirt and everything to prove that i have definitely been productive today but
man i was telling jerry just because of our schedule i know that i'm not going to be able
to get in the garden for the next couple of days between the nursery being open we're celebrating
someone's special birthday coming up very soon man behind the camera um so we've got some
birthday partying to do just you know life right work juggling kids and and i gotta run somebody
to a birthday party so forth and so on so we take these little pockets of time even if it is
seven o'clock at night to come out here and get a little bit done because it feels good to get
it done and it looks so nice and the thing is that everything that i planted today even though it's
an annual and it's going to die you know the end of the season okay y'all it's april these
could easily go through november we're talking about how many months is that is that what seven
eight months i mean my gosh y'all that is like so worth it so in the spring summer and fall just
soak it up it gets us through the winter this is going to be positively beautiful and just give
us tons of enjoyment so yeah annuals are totally worth it they have their place
in the mix of shrubs and perennials and all the things that you don't have to be in one camp or
another use them all for your space to create the garden that you enjoy spending time in so
not only are we gonna enjoy spending time in this garden so are my hummingbirds and my butterflies
and all of my pollinators of all different shapes and sizes this is great for them so it just makes
a happy garden and a happy gardener so i hope you have enjoyed this maybe seen a plant or
two that you want to look at adding into your garden because hey there's tons of them out
there find the right one for you and as always thanks so much for gardening with creekside
you all have a great day i am hitting the showers see y'all later bye friends
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