Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we are working back in the signature garden
and we are planting uh some beautiful winter color here in the four annual beds so let me
give you a little bit of a preview of what we are doing uh CeCe is here we're working together this
is definitely more than a oneperson job and Mimi is going to be coming down here in just a little
bit to help us as well and of course our furry cheerleader Brena we went ahead and laid out one
of the flower beds just so we could get our design correct of course here in the signature Garden
surrounding the fountain we have four um uniquely shaped flower beds that will always house annuals
now if you look at the bed that we have already laid out you're like well Jenny what in the world
why are you not putting any um you know up here on the front well we have tons of tulips in there
and while we AB absolutely could plant the pansies within where the Tulips are I don't know exactly
where those tulips are so we uh we're just going to leave that little space there and let that be
only tulips but we do have pansies and violas in here there are a ton of them so let's come over
here to the wagon and let me show you what we have these are um pansies and violas that we grew here
at Creekside Nursery in fact fact CeCe was the one that potted all of these up one day for us we have
the Lavender Blue Shades this is a stunning mixed variety of pansies that are truly just like what
the name says Lavender Blue Shades so you've got anywhere from creams that have you know purple
veining in them to lovely um rich rich purples to a light color just a whole mix of different colors
in here and the pansies of course have those nice big massive flowers on them I mean like that is a
huge flower head just going to be stunning then we have violas and we have the uh Penny Peach
and as you I hopefully the the camera will pick up we have a little bee that has already been um
she's very excited to come and visit the violas but Penny Peach is as you can see has again and
kind of that TR color to it really deep purple a little bit of cream nice kind of that peachy
apricot color in it um and these pair really really well together for us in North Carolina
um violas and pansies are that fall winter very early spring crop so they will continue to flower
for us even though it is January and we're putting them out um the there are some differences between
violas and pansies so all pansies are violas so Viola is the the big mother group shall we say
and then pansies are a type of Viola so violas are not necessarily pansies um as you could see
the pansy heads are huge violas tend to be a lot smaller violas have more flowers per plant
than the pansies do there are pluses and minuses of doing them and that's why we're mixing them
and because of our sheer numbers and so um the violas tend to be more cold tolerant where they
will Bloom even in through the coldest parts of the winter pansies may take a break and then as
soon as the the temperatures warm back up then they start producing again and then I just love
the difference in the size of the bloom and mixing them together so that is what we have
determined through some math that every flower bed is going to get 108 of the um lavender BL
blue Shades pansy and actually what we did because we got these later on in the season we have um if
you can see there are two plants per container so this is an 1801 tray meaning there are 18 plants
in a tray so we have actually 36 plants because there's two per pot um so our spacing is going
to be a little bit wider on here because we have two plants per pot when we were looking see see
and I had to configure this is why it's already laid out before we uh started filming we wanted
to make sure that everybody would fit in here correctly and so we went ahead and did all the
panies of course up front and then came down and did a window pane double row right here just on
this back straight edge of the violas there's one that's sticking out that needs to go in a little
bit but I thought that that would be really fun plus we're working a little bit from um shorter to
the tallest back there in the back now what so CCE just got finished spreading out bioton cuz that's
going to be the easiest way for us to handle this um is that sprinkled biotone on all the beds first
and then what she's doing is laying out the penny Peach violas so we're going to lay out the penny
peaches and then fill in with the lavender Shades I have got a power planter augur and I have own
one of the smaller drill bits it is the three 3 in um it is not a heavy duty tip but because
we're using so many of these pansing and violas in those smaller containers this is area has been
prepped and so this will make less of a mess if I was using my 5in augur so I think the 3in
should do okay um if it doesn't then I can always pop over and get uh my 5in augur and use that so
what we're going to do is just set the camera up get everything laid out and uh yeah start planting
I think I think CCE said we have over 2,000 total plants that are going in here it's going
to be gorgeous it's going to be beautiful it's all going to be worth it so we're going to get
all right my friends so the project is complete and look at all of those beautiful pansies and
violas all snug in their new home oh my goodness all of us Mimi CeCe myself when we got done we
were like oh it looks so great I am going to ask Jerry to uh throw the Drone up this afternoon so
we can get a bird's eye view of how everything looks but let's go through and see everything
and then talk about what we did and what I'm already thinking about for next year right
it's never too early to plan for next year so of course they are all nice and planted it is great
just to see color um flowers in the garden yes we had violas in the around the fountain but it
is so nice to get more color in here uh just could not be more happy with how everything looks having
those violas on the long straight side I think is going to be really fun really I would love to say
that I totally planned that I did not sorry about that we had a little camera malfunction there um
but when I went to go ahead and place the order for the pansies and violas because knowing the
space that we had seeing it in in Hardscape right I could actually see it physically see it instead
of it being on paper and drawn out then it gave me ideas of what I wanted to do in here very late in
the season my availability was quite low but what I did have available were the lavender blue skies
and the penny Peach and putting those two together I knew I had no idea how I was going to use them
but I knew that the colors would coordinate and and go together enough that I could figure it
out when the plants got here and we grew them out yes it is late in the season right we we are mid
January we're planting ours now because simply of logistics we got them late I we potted them
up late it takes time to grow them because pansy plugs when they get to you I mean they are like
the size of your pinky very very small so it takes a while you know a couple of months to
grow them out but we just had a customer that we always grow his pansies for him he's a landscaper
that Services some of the major um businesses in uptown downtown Charlotte and they always like to
switch out their Christmas decorations and then put in pansies so this is the time every year
that he plants the pansies in uptown Charlotte so it is totally acceptable to plant these now
um I just love all of their sweet little smiling faces looking at us keep in mind right um the
blank spots are where Miss confection is going to be um she's already in the ground those beautiful
tulips misc confection will be um starts out as a soft yellow that turns to a creamy white and then
a nice intense pink so we've got lots of loads of color in both you know all the beds surrounding
here this is going to be a great fun spring uh Mimi was asking she said so how long are
these going to stay in the ground when are you going to pull them out and uh because that is
always a conundrum for this Southern gardener because when it's time to plant your summer
annuals your pansies and violas typically are still looking really good um and it is hard to
pull out beautiful plants that um are doing great but for us in the South because our summers are
so intense and we need to get our annuals in the ground and acclimated before those really intense
summer you know heat and humidity hits so more than likely I will pull these out somewhere in
late April and I I pray that they're beautiful I can imagine them in my mind's eye that they're
going to be stunning and gorgeous but I'm going to have to be able to get the uh summer annuals
in there pansies and violas are cool weather plants they love these temperatures notice that
they have not wilted uh they are nice and perky and y'all I mean it's cool out here now I know
I'm in North Carolina and cool is a relative term um but they have not gotten limpy or you know any
kind of like shock from coming into the cold um because they were in the greenhouse now it wasn't
unheated Greenhouse but still it was quite you know comparatively speaking quite warm so they
are cool weather plants they will not survive my heat and humidity here in North Carolina because
every year if I show myself pulling out PES and violas it would never fail that somebody's like I
can't believe you're getting rid of those gorgeous plants they'll last all summer no no honey no they
won't not in North Carolina so what I'm thinking about for next year what am I going to do next
year um next year I will be well I guess this year right it's our 2024 I keep I don't even know where
I am y'all um so 2024 so we will order these plugs um in you know the sum time to get ready
for the fall I will of course plan this much more methodically being in a brand new Garden that is
less than just a couple of months old um I'm still figuring things out and what I want to do so when
I plan our color for this coming fall winter next year's early spring I will make sure that we have
colors that there's a nice scheme and so I will know exactly um what my color pack palette is
I'll do that mix of the pansies and the violas so wherever I put them um because of course now
I see that there's Lo loads of other areas where we could put them but you know how beautiful would
they be right there up there on the on the wall so between the hydranges in the wall that again
would be another great spot to have loads of color here um in the winter time so I will definitely be
much more methodical and thinking about color combinations and and things that I'm going to
be doing um you know in the coming Seasons but that's the beautiful thing about gardening it
you're always you're always thinking you're always planning you're always adapting you're
always changing um certain things succeed and do great and uh but then sometimes certain things
don't do great and you just adapt and you overcome and you you just you know you change so what we're
going to do um is like let Jerry get the Drone up show you all these beautiful flowers because
tomorrow we've got a storm front coming through and we're supposed to get heavy downpours 2 to
three Ines of rain so unfortunately I'm afraid that these current flower petals um are going to
be gone after a heavy downpour of 2 to three inches of rain so we're going to document it
while we can and enjoy it and know that you know they'll have flowers once again but having Mimi
and CeCe here was massive we could not have done it without without the three of us we got we got
into finally got into a rhythm of um me drilling the holes CeCe was moving them and Mimi was coming
in behind us and planting and then we would get all one bed all the holes were dug and then we
would stop get everybody planted and we moved on to the next one so it took us a minute to find
our Rhythm as mama said she was like well we waited till the last bed to finally find the
perfect system and I was like yeah well you know that's that's how it is but we got it done and
they look great and I am just very very excited as as always we hope you have found this fun
informative and inspirational y'all have a great day we'll see you in the next video bye friends