Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we have a fun project
that Jerry and I are working on um and you can see that I have got a wagon full of
gorgeous annuals that we are going to put in the ground in that flower bed that's just right over
my left shoulder this is the entrance right along our driveway see the Bobcat we've been ripping out
some stuff so driveway goes up here the house is just straight in front of me you can see that the
nursery is just right down there this gives you a little bit of perspective these are all daylilies
i've had a bunch of people ask me here lately what those are so those are day lilies getting
ready to bloom um but the bed that we're gonna be working on today is right here jerry and i planted
this flower bed gosh it was one of like our first youtube videos that we did that first
yeah it was hot we planted i just remember how incredibly hot it was when we planted this thing
it was like in july it's been a couple of years some things have done great some things have been
like and some have been like yeah we need to tweak that so that is what we are going to do today
we were already in here before we started filming like i said with the bobcat he's got the grapple
on it we ripped out a couple of dwarf crepe myrtles like they're crape myrtle shrubs
they just never really did anything they were beautiful dark foliage but they never
bloomed the first year they bloomed pretty well but then they were just these
like shrubs they just didn't do anything and this is a high visibility area we want it to have lots
of flower power and i'm a firm believer if you don't love a plant in your garden it's time for
it to go life is too short to put up with a plant that doesn't you know do something for
you in your garden so we ripped those out and when we were doing that we went ahead and took
like lifted the irrigation because we have put mulch on this so many times and of course just
over time things have decomposed we do put lots of annuals in here you can see the brown right there
is my day lilies that are dying back so i needed to lift up this irrigation because
we're going to be putting a ton of plants in here and the last thing we want to do is have to go in
and repair irrigation lines that you know we cut through so let me flip the camera around and give
you like a bigger perspective of this whole area here we are um just a little bit of a different
perspective i'm in my front yard the daylilies are over here to my left the driveway with the maples
and then this is the bed that we are looking at we're going to start all the way from this
tulip poplar all the way here on the right that is kind of the silver tree we're going to start there
and we're going to work our way all the way down the flower bed
right on the other side of where that grapple hook is what we are leaving in this flower bed we have
three encore azaleas this is autumn twist man in the springtime we did a little did a little
ditty and we showed you how they were in bloom and they were spectacular so that is what these three
shrubs in the front are right where the shovel is and then in the back we have some of the
brandywine viburnums from proven winners these are fantastic viburnums doing really well here of
course this time of year they have got beautiful white blooms on them just a fantastic shrub it is
deciduous that would be in my opinion the only downside of this but what happens is after they
bloom then they will start to set some berries and brandywine is fun because it will do both blue
red red and purple red and blue it's kind of purpley blue but we have them all the way down
the line you can see we had a problem with irrigation last year that we didn't realize
and this one on the very end right there is small and clearly i need to trim back this
was where a maple tree was and i need to these are all the little shoots that have come up
it needs to be trimmed back so we will take care of that so the miss brandywine on the end will get
nice and big so we're going to come in here in this space and just have lots of fun putting in
those annuals that are in the wagon so let's go look and see what we're going to do
in this front bed i tend to go a little bit typically with the pinks this year we are
going to in the front we are going to use tons and tons and tons of the new supertunia vista
jazzberry this is a fantastic petunia i have used it in the same space
so that makes sense that this whole bed will be tied in together along the driveway you will
notice that they're not massively in bloom yeah there's blooms on it but it's not like covered
we had just trimmed them back a little bit because they were starting to get a little
they're ready to get out of these pots and so we prune them back so don't be afraid to prune back
your petunias they will respond really well this one you can see was pruned a little bit earlier
than the rest of them and look right here all of these little guys right here all of those
are new buds so when you prune your petunias it really does help them flush out with new growth
so we're going to have vista jazz berry in there then we're going to have loads and loads and loads
of the trifolia pink gum freena this plant is a huge butterfly magnet they just adore coming to
these flowers they make a really fun impact when they're planted in mass like just look at that
look how pretty that is in mass they love the sun they which this will be a full sun bed um and just
great so that's going to be kind of in the middle uh we don't have the exact design down yet we'll
figure that one out then we're going to put again lots of the purple fountain grass we did this down
in the new entrance beds at the creek these are going to be in those grande containers
whereas at the creek we did them in gallons so we may double them up but we've got plenty of them
that we can add to this bed lots of texture and movement will be really fun
and then we have the new plant for 2023 this is the um purple queen
transcendia is that how you say it i don't know transit condesta y'all can y'all can correct me
um so anyway old plant not new to the market but it is new addition to the proven winter's line
what's great about this is that it will do sun to shade it is very versatile again i literally just
trimmed this back like a day ago because it was getting i didn't know when we were going to plant
it so i went ahead and pruned it up a little bit but it'll give us lots of fun color in the middle
so basically if you kind of think about it you've got the purple fountain grass right here
in the back along with the gumprina spattered in this will be our middle and then our front
is the jazz berry gonna be lots and lots of fun i don't we did bring down a coleus
we may stick it in there we may not i don't know i don't know if this is my first choice
but this is as far as color now i love the plant it's not a question do you love the
plant or not yes i love the plant this is apple brandy the color blaze it has a little bit more
red in it plus i'm not sure if we're going to need it we brought it down anyway we will see
if we need it or not and then we're going to put some perennial hibiscus in here this
is a beautiful kind of a white with a pink edge this is going to be a trial plant for us this is
not on the market we're going to trial it see how it does and if we love it then next year
we will have it available so yes so this is going to be a trial plan a little bit of a trial garden
but without further ado here comes cute thing and he is ready to help we're doing this together
today so he will be here with us the nursery is open you can see that the customers are coming
and going and so he is here and we're going to get started on this
all right my friends jerry and i think we have finally uh nailed down the design look
at all those pretty white pots sitting there it's going to be absolutely glorious lots of pink lots
of texture lots of fun lots of color all season long just to give you a big overview we're going
to have two of the perennial hibiscus they're in the black pots there's one here and there's one
right here they will get five feet tall five feet wide they are spaced at five feet apart
and then all back through there you'll kind of see the white pots that are kind of laying down that
is the purple fountain grass that really goes behind the hibiscus we've got the crepe myrtle
placed and then behind the gumfreena they're all laying down because they're so top heavy
and then we just wanted to have a huge mass of the trufula pink gumfreena this will fill in really
nicely lots of vibrant color again the butterflies just absolutely adore this plant really nice and
drought tolerant which is perfect for this full sun bed i will say that today is completely cloudy
so it may look like it's in the shade it's not just a beautiful cloudy day which we're very
grateful for and then we have the jazz berries here in the top we have a little bit of a double
row action going on that comes down and then the jazz berries will go all the way down in
the front of the border all the way down with the purple queen filling in in the back so again
nice and wide and full when all of these plants get nice and big and start growing
you're not going to see really any room between them you will notice that we put them exactly
right on the drip line and they are on those emitters the emitters are 12 inches apart
and because this bed is very hot very dry naturally because we are right here on the edge of
the woods and so we've got pretty extensive root systems in here that just suck up the water i have
learned from experience that you have got to have the plants right on the emitters especially in the
beginning once they're established and the root system gets going it's not that big of a deal but
in the beginning it is a very big deal and then down here on the other end you will see we have
more of the purple fountain grass laying back there and then the last two of the hibiscus so
those hibiscus will book end this bed and we've got some reinforcements that just pulled up you'll
you heard them come in they're going to help us get this all planted because the day is
almost done and we want to get this project completed today so now to the fun part planting
oh
alrighty my friends sorry there's a bug there hello nat welcome to summertime in the south
there's bugs everywhere the uh flowerbed is complete for today we got everybody in the ground
nice and happy looks fantastic it is getting to be later in the afternoon and so we are going to
stop for today clearly we need to come back in and add a little fresh layer of mulch to get all
the irrigation tucked in but we are currently out of mulch so we don't have any so we're gonna have
to wait a couple of days until the mulch arrives but the plants are in the irrigation is connected
to everybody but the great thing is too is that for the next two days we're expected to have
rain so we're going to have rainy two days which is wonderful because we kind of left the soil
exposed a little bit just meaning that there's not like you especially see it around that gunfrina
that we have you know raw soil is showing so when the rains come it'll really get soaked into these
flower beds um and the plants will be nice and happy it's been a glorious day as far as the
weather here because complete overcast it is just lovely the last time we were in this bed as far as
like when jerry and i initially planted it it was so stinking hot it was just unbearable but today
has been nice let me flip the camera around let me show you what we've finished for today here we
have just a little bit of a different perspective i'm right here up on the tree line and you can see
that when we planted the purple fountain grasses we put two grandes together just to make a nice
huge presence we flanked each of the hibiscuses with them now yes the hibiscus does get to be
five feet tall five feet wide at maturity it is not going to reach maturity this year
so that is a great way to use your annuals is to fill in those spaces while you're waiting for
your shrubs and your perennials trees to reach their full potential again another one of those
hibiscus with the purple fountain grass all behind we got the crate myrtle in really excited to see
how that does and then of course all along the edge we did a little bit of a thicker
border right here with the jazz berry a nice huge section of gum freena with that purple fountain
grass back there and then if you can look down this way you can really see how the purple queen
and the jazz berry are going to be really close to one another so once they grow and really reach
not even their full potential it'll happen before then they will grow together and be nice and full
you're not going to see individual plants you're just going to see masses of color
which will be lovely and then of course these azaleas will bloom again in this both the summer
and then in the fall so all that pink will continue and then a nice big ribbon of the
purple fountain grass again with both of the same hibiscuses on the end so this flower bed
is all done and is going to look spectacular as always we so appreciate all your love support and
encouragement with these videos hope you've learned something look forward to something
new plants maybe you found something to put in your garden as always thanks so much for going
with creekside we'll see in the next video you all have a fantastic day bye friends
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