hello friends it is jenny welcome to gardening with creekside
it is our weekly nursery update here at creekside nursery in dallas north
carolina we do those do these videos once a week
to show you what is growing blooming and thriving
here at the nursery we are in i think the second week of
july and all of the summer flowers are just
in all of their glory speaking of all in
their glory i'm standing here in the pergola area that we call it the
shopping area and i have three containers here that i
had made up the end of the spring just as kind of
show pieces to show people what these plants can do the ones beside
of me is a cleome this is senorita rosalita
and she has become one of my all-time favorite plants for this summer our
first year growing her clearly she's in a pot right here we
also have her in the landscape at the cottage garden
and she is magnificent if you are familiar with cleome
cleome is just an old-fashioned classic plant
that would always start by seed cleomies though were notorious
for being invasive because they would be started by seed so they would go to
seed pods and they would spread seeds everywhere with the wind the birds all
that kind of stuff so you would end up having cleome all
over your garden plus the old timey ones had thorns in
them so they were prickly proven winners has
bred those pesky characteristics out of it and so
they are sterile so they're not going to spread and they are thornless
they i mean look at this they grow and they bloom they grow and
they bloom just absolutely gorgeous
in this container i'm going to show you the tag because i know my people love to
have some tags now this is a dirty tag so forgive me on
that so this is the tag for senorita rosalita
i already have plans next year it also comes in white
so i already have some fun plans for the white cleome
but it's just a great one of course it's obviously it's sun
it has a nice i find a pleasant odor to it it's not a strong smell but
it's just a really neat smell to it love this so add this to your wish list
for next year then we have the one the only the
suncredible sunflower again this is a magnificent
this is one plant one plant in here in this large container typically i
would really suggest that you put it in the landscape
because it can get so big um this was new on the market
this year again these are a sterile sunflower they're not going to produce
seeds the bumble bees and honeybees do love to go on it there's the tag for it
i have found in the landscape it can get to be like a four by four
these great make great cut flowers for your little bud vases for your mixed
cottage garden arrangements love this plant it's a sunflower hence
you have to have sun at least six hours of sun for sun
incredible it's just amazing all of these are
annuals meaning they last one year and then in this fun little
rusty wagon we have it is the gallardia they heat it up and this
is in yellow there are um i believe four plants in here
gallardia is actually a native plant you'll see it a lot on the coastline of
on the southeast when we go to the beach we see gaillardia growing wild
along the sand dunes obviously this is a hybrid
it clearly loves the sun loves it dry has that kind of a a filler and a
spiller habit to it it's fantastic so it comes
in yellow and it comes in red i just have yellow right here and
it's just gorgeous gorgeous all right moving on oh lol
see y'all even at a nursery sometimes they get
neglected and they need water that's okay this is my salvia
i'll give her a shot of water she'll perk back up you know what
it is what it is all right i wanted you to stay tuned see i get so excited and i
forget these things i was meant to tell you
we're getting tons of questions about hydrangeas so if you stay tuned to the
end i'm going to answer some basic questions about hydrangeas and give you
a little hydrangea 101. i was supposed to tell you that at the
beginning and i forgot so sorry all right we're going to come really
quick over here um oh y'all let's see
we're going to come over here to the caladiums
look at these fantastic palladiums absolutely gorgeous palladiums are
fantastic for the southern gardener because they like
it hot and humid and heaven knows that we are hot and
humid so they are doing fantastic this particular
one is mesmerized with that lovely
green and red color on it i have absolutely fallen in love with
palladiums this year because they are so easy maintenance free but they just
are high performers all they're requiring is water and other than that
they are performing great all the hostas are coming in they're just doing their
thing they're happy they're moving along and doing wonderful
all right we're going to come over here to the
shrub lot because being the shrublot in the summertime
we've got butterfly bushes and um hydrangeas galore
and beauty berries and have biscuits the hibiscus have started
blooming walking through the mammoth pots here
they're huge they're growing they're loving life
i don't know about you but for july this is kind of my maintenance mode
i don't do a whole lot of new planting i'm just maintaining
so i'm weeding constantly um watering fertilizing taking care of
pests so that's kind of what happens in july
because it's just so hot you really don't want to you can
plant new plants you can plant shrubs but this is going to be a lot
more of a high maintenance on your part because you've got to baby them and
water them and that kind of thing all right so here we are in
the hibiscuses this is the summer rivik series
from proven winters most of these right here are the berry awesome
and i'm going to show you or let jerry zoom in here
on the bloom of the berry awesome how pretty is that just a classic pink
bloom hibiscus last blooms last for one day
but there's constantly new buds coming up so you have a continuous
show of massive blooms for the summer they love it hot they love the sun all
sorts of great things the butterfly bushes y'all seriously
look at these butterfly bushes absolutely insanely gorgeous
this is the poster series from proven winners
we'll let jerry this is pugster blue pugsters will get to be a two by two so
they are a perfect petite shrub for your landscape you can put
them in a large pot if you don't have anywhere in the ground
to put it they do great right along sidewalks in the front of your flower
bed these are just starting obviously to put
on their blooms they had that sweet smell butterflies
love them the pollinators the bumblebees the honeybees
even hummingbirds will come to them just fantastic they must have
six hours of sun if you don't have six hours of sun you're not
to get the blooms so make sure when you pick out your butterfly bushes
that you get the right sun requirements these are our little irrigation tags so
we just stick them in there and they water and fertilize them and if
i don't put it in there right now i'll forget and then
sweet thing won't get any water and she'll shrivel up and die
hydrangeas this is a limelight tree we've talked about this last week
they just continue to get prettier and prettier and prettier
love the limelight tree is great as a highlight in your yard
these are right here i can show you this is just
a this is a little lime so little lime is the small version
of a limelight so there we go open it up show you that good
information but we're getting a lot of questions right now about people's
hydrangeas because either their hydrangeas are not
blooming or they're turning brown and kind of shriveling up so i wanted to
give you just a little bit of a basic 101 on hydrangeas
there are many different families of hydrangeas there's about like five or
six different families of hydrangeas and this scientific we're
not going to get into all of that but basically know that a hydrangea will
bloom either on new growth or old growth so what that
means is new growth this is a panicle hydrangea
this is a cone-shaped flower this is panicle belongs to the paniculata family
all panicles with this cone-shaped bloom on
new growth so what that means is in late winter you can trim this back you can
take come in and take off a third or whatever
how much foliage you need to of the plant in the spring it flushes
out it begins growing it gets nice and tall as it's
growing in the spring and early summer it's putting on its buds and you get
gorgeous flowers so that's what it means to bloom
on new growth i can even if i wanted to cut
these and put these in a flower base or an arrangement
late fall i will get more blooms because i've cut it off
it's regrown put on new buds new growth then there are hydrangeas that bloom on
old growth you got to know kind of what your
hydrangea is first of all or you do a little experiment when
hydrangeas bloom on old growth this summer let's just pretend that this
blooms on old growth it doesn't but we're pretending use your imagination
as the summer goes it's putting on its bud set
okay so it's the buds for next year it's 20 20
as it's growing it's putting on the blooms for 2021
if you were to prune it now or in the fall or in the very very early
spring you have just cut off all of your blooms
for that year so the best time to prune a
hydrangea that blooms on old growth is immediately after it starts to bloom
typically those will be your mop head that round ball
the old-fashioned the old-timey hydrangeas they bloom on old growth
so if you are pruning your hydrangeas in the late fall
and you don't get blooms the next year then your hydrangea blooms on old
growth stop pruning your hydrangeas if you haven't had
blooms in years stop pruning them don't touch them this year and you
should have blooms the next year all right so hydrangea 101 stay tuned in
the coming weeks we're going to do a hydrangea video that goes into a lot of
detail about hydrangeas the different types
i do want to show you come over here and we're going to wrap it up
we're going to tiptoe through here this is a fantastic
shrub this is a beauty berry this is pearl glam and i don't know
if you can hear you can see but the pollinators are going crazy over this
thing i love pearl glam because it's such a
unique beautiful plant right here these are the little tee tiny
blooms you will see these little tee tiny blooms
they're a nice white oopsie i mean really could we have planned that any
better i don't think so thank you mr bumblebee
so sweet so it blooms and then after it blooms
jerry down here it puts on little tiny berries and in the fall these berries
are bigger and they're that gorgeous purple that you saw on the tag
absolutely exquisite plants here is all of your information for pearl glam
beauty berry it is a shrub you typically don't need
to prune it you just want to let it grow where it can reach its full
maturity and boom you will have lots of pollinators in
your yard it's great it's great fall beauty
this has been a quick i feel like it's been kind of a fast and furious video
but hopefully you've gotten a little something out of this video make sure
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look for that hydra hydrangea video coming in a couple of
weeks have a fabulous day have a great week and we'll
see y'all next time bye