Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we are back at my new favorite place to be adding
plants the berm um yes remember we have put in installed this privacy berm between the nursery
and our house and we are Landscaping both sides of the berm to create four seasons of Interest lots
of fun structure and texture and color plants that will welcome pollinators and Wildlife birds all
sorts of things this is where I get to have lots of lots of fun and I certainly have been enjoying
myself planting this area today we are going to add two shrubs to this location first of all we're
going to go ahead this is new on the market within the last I don't know year or two this
is a honeysuckle this is Sensation from Proven Winners let me show you the tag because I know
how much y'all love the tags all right so there is your tag and your information so if you have
lots of questions you can go to provenwinners.com but I'm just going to give you the the run down
on it now if you're in the South or you have honeysuckle that grows naturally in your area
you're probably like Jenny why in the world are you going to plant honeysuckle in this spot it is
going to be a pain in your rear well I certainly don't hope so and this is going to be a different
honeysuckle than what we are used to here in the South here in the South we have honeysuckle that
grows basically as a can be a noxious weed in our native Woods right because it will climb and Trail
us through anything we love and adore honeysuckle in the late spring early summer because it has
that most delicious fragrance to it Sensation will do the exact same thing as far as your fragrance
and your flowers but it's going to continue to bloom throughout the entire growing season
this plant is hearty enzymes four to nine so extremely adaptable right so it can go in a whole
range of zones and all across the nation it is going to be a full sun plant that means you have
to have at least six hours of direct sunlight or more for this to do well it is non-invasive that
is the key about sensation they have taken those pesky characteristics out of the wild honeysuckle
and have come up with sensation so it is not invasive it is of course a fragrant just like
the honeysuckle that we that fragrance we love and it is long blooming it will bring Bloom from
Spring to Summer I'm combining words and it will get 10 feet tall two to four feet wide
so Jerry and I were talking about this and um I've been wanting to plant this in our landscape but I
didn't have a location for it to climb because it is a honeysuckle it is going to intertwine
and it needs something to cling onto the fence is going to be a perfect spot for it so I am going
to put two of them into the landscape roughly on each side of the thunder cloud purple plum
tree that way it can grow up the fence and out and spread out and it will be balanced on both sides
so that is the Sensation that we are going to add next we are going to add the Sweet Talker viburnum
this is a really fun viburnum first of all it is an evergreen so we like that especially in this
berm it's going to give me year-round interest and structure it is already starting to take on
those beautiful kind of reddish Hues for the fall color it's got some green mixed in with some red
now sweet talker is going to be a pretty good size it's going to be 8 to 10 feet
tall but about let me get my specs three to five feet wide now I can prune this if it
gets a little too big I can easily prune it you know once a year to keep it in its manageable
size it is a sun to part shade plant so that means you need at least I would say
five hours of direct sun for this to grow really well it is going to be Hardy in zones seven to
eight so it pretty much is is kind of in a very specific planting range for us it will be perfect
because we are North Carolina Zone 7B and it's going to give me some height and some interest
and where I have my trees that give me that height in interest but they're deciduous my
sweet talker is going to be Evergreen and give me year-round interest with some height and more
vertical because it's going to be just basically kind of straight up where my trees have that trunk
and then the canopy on it the reason it's called Sweet Talker is because it is one of the absolute
first plants to put on blooms in the spring you know these really sweet little delicate
kind of pink and white bell-shaped flowers that have a delicious fragrance to it so you're going
to have a beautiful structure beautiful fragrance nice Early Blooms on it you know spring is coming
when your sweet talker blooms very very nice and so it's going to be a lot lot of fun so what we're
going to do is all of this is going to go both of these types of plants are going to go relatively
around the Thunderhead thunder cloud I have a Thunderhead and a thundercloud always have to stop
and think about a second for the thunder cloud purple plum so we're going to flip the camera
around get everything set up and show you exactly where we are going to put these into the berm
so I have got the Sweet Talkers and the sensations placed I think you can see it behind me so
basically I just went in a panel and a half on each side of the Thundercloud plum and put the
Sweet Talker in the center of that panel now it is pulled forward a bit because sweet chocolate can
get three to five feet wide now is it okay if it gets nice and big and some of the branches go on
the back side of that fence of course absolutely but this is not something that I want to plant
slap up against the fence what I do want to plant slap up against the fence is the honeysuckle so I
have placed the honeysuckle um on to each of the outside of those Sweet Talkers and I'm going to
plant it like right against the base of the fence because I obviously want it to climb up the fence
with that fence it can go straight up the post or it can go on those three rails that come out from
it so that will be a great spot for both of those plants so without further Ado I'm going to grab
my power planner auger I'm going to Aug my holes everybody's going to get some biotone fertilizer
we always use our bio tone fertilizer because that is specifically for root growth and that is what
I want when I'm planting my perennials trees and shrubs especially this time of year I want massive
root growth so when the summertime heat hits those plants are really well established and very happy
that biotone fertilizer is a great starter fertilizer so I do not need to use the biotone
and then use an additional fertilizer on top I made that mistake one time it was Overkill don't
do that only use your biotone and then if you're in the active growing season later on you can come
back and add a slow release fertilizer biotone is enough for the beginning so it's going to
be pretty simple we're just going to do like what we always do Aug the holes get the plant out with
the biotone in the hole make sure everybody's nice and established I am going to plant these
a little bit High we have clay soil so I want my shrubs to be a little bit hot that way they don't
sit in lots and lots of water and those roots will have good drainage on them and they don't
rot because we do not want that so without further Ado we are going to get to planting
so we have got the sensations planted and because this is a trailing Vine right I do need to get it
started otherwise it's going to create this nice great ground cover here for me with some of it
going up on the fence I have this is the same rubber twine I have it in our Amazon store so
if you go down to the video description I have a link for that so just click on that link it'll
take you to our Amazon store we get a purchase of a percentage of everything that you order through
that but these are things that we actually use every day here at in the gardens this is that soft
rubber twine it is a hollow black stretchy twine that I really like it's super easy to deal with I
use it mainly for my climbing roses or whenever I need to really kind of secure a plant to whatever
it needs to be secure to it's nice and soft it is stretchy and it works great I like it that's
black because of course it will blend in a lot better than like a green twine or some sort of
natural color once you get your honeysuckle going you're not going to have to continually come back
in here and attach it this is just to get things going it is not the active growing season for my
honeysuckle that will be in warmer temperatures so for now I just want to get it really kind of
twined twined twined and tied up really loose and just so that it'll hold it nice and secure up to
the post but without squeezing it or breaking any of the branches super easy to do is not
rocket science and then any little Twigs that are sticking out as it grows and fills in you
can just come in and just kind of tuck them under if need be honeysuckle by default is going to be a
very nice grower we just planted these in the pots uh late this summer this fall early this
fall and it had already had really good roots going down in a three gallon pot so honeysuckle
is a very happy nice fast grower so I mean basically we're just going to kind of do that
and then just leave it alone I'm gonna go do the other one I think it has a little bit more
longer trailers on it so it'll be a little bit easier to get it up but yeah it's pretty simple
so now just like that we have added more interest to this berm not only do you when you're planting
your Gardens do we want to think about like flowers and you know that spring color but we
also want to think about your vertical interest and your horizontal interest so that sweet talker
definitely gives me that vertical interest it is an evergreen it is going to give me flowers with
fragrance in the early early spring Evergreen color that's going to change throughout this
season but it goes up right this eight to ten feet tall three to five feet wide is going to
be a beautiful presence on each side of that Thundercloud purple plump just putting them in
and they're like two feet tall they already look fantastic and I really really like the color and
the texture of them in the ground so that is definitely a vertical interest now with this
sensation honeysuckle that's going to be more of a horizontal it's gonna be like a vertical
and horizontal right because it is going to grow up and climb the post but then it also
is going to go horizontal on those rails so it is going to bring lots of good interest we
have found it'll be interesting to see how this honeysuckle does throughout the winter because
we really have found that honeysuckle like the native honeysuckle
can almost be like a semi-evergreen you'll still have some leaves on there and right now these
Sensations got have gorgeous color on them like gorgeous foliage and they have been outside like
they have not been in the greenhouse so what you see is what they should look like this time of
year they have gone through the freezes and are doing really well so hopefully we'll have some
sort of foliage on it throughout the winter but then during the growing season of course right
spring summer and fall here we are in November we're going to have interest to it long blooms
gorgeous delicious fragrance that is going to be the vertical and horizontal in the flower
beds super excited about it love it this whole Space around that purple plum is just really
growing and developing especially on this side of the berm um I'm loving it so we appreciate it
hopefully you found some things that you like so if you're in especially that southern Zone
with that sweet talker zone seven or eight check out your local Garden Center ask them
about it that sensation being in zones four to nine extremely adaptable very versatile
check out your local Garden Center see if they have it add it to your garden as always thanks
so much for gardening with Creekside y'all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends
you just can't be still can you?