Hey friends today we are going on a landscape job with Jerry the crew of the Creekside Nursery we
are we are in the precious town of Belmont which is a really sweet little town here in
Gaston County and we are basically redoing the whole landscape in front of this sweet
house so I thought it would be fun for me to come along I am not Landscaping today I just
stopped by to check on everybody and to give you updates and details on what it is like when
Creekside comes and does your landscape Jerry is the head of the Landscaping crew that's his
whole department he really enjoys it and what we specialize in doing is coming in basically
and completely ripping out old landscape that is just either as old as tired it just
needs to be completely torn out and then start fresh so we have got a wonderful crew with us
here today and I want to walk you through and show you what they have been doing thus far
this morning it is just a little bit after one o'clock so they have been very busy bees today
they showed up this morning gosh that would have been maybe nine nine-ish they got here
and they have already gotten all this stuff done so let me just give you a little walk through here
you can see that this sweet house right here this is the house and we are definitely Street
Front Maine this is Main Street of Belmont beautiful historic house houses through here
my sweet friend Jennifer lives right there but um yeah so here we are at Main Street main downtown
is down here and so let's just start with where what they are doing right now on the front of
the house it has a circular drive so you can come in right here and then go around and sweep around
so there's two beds on each side of the sidewalk and we're going to plant them the same so we have
got some green velvet boxwoods they're going to start here there's nine of them wrap around
the back side of the flower bed and then just a little bit down the sidewalk we haven't gotten
this side placed yet we've started on this side so you've got the Greenville that's
given nice good Evergreen structure here and then down in the center of the bed we've got
three Bobo hydrangeas that will be beautiful they are wider than they are tall so that will
be really nice and then we've got the fire chief arborvitaes which are a beautiful evergreen shrub
they might be any they're not green well that's what the fire teams do this time in the winter
they will turn that beautiful burgundy let me see if I can show you one over here they found
that beautiful burgundy and then as the season matures and goes on you can see down here they're
nice and green then they will turn a beautiful green with just little red tips so we're going
to have some good structure in here and then for color all down at the bottom is going to be the
uptick coreopsis so this bed is fun you can see that they are having to work really hard because
there is like a Bermuda type grass that has been growing in here tons of weeds this is not a well
like it wasn't like a manicured lawn but it does have the Bermuda in here which is going to be
something that they're going to have to maintain because if you've had Bermuda and you've tried
to get it out before then you know how challenging that it can be as far as like it keeps coming back
so that'll be something that the homeowners will have to maintain on that but I love how this whole
thing looks right now it's really fun beautiful structure I love those green velvets like that
will be lots of this structure in here so let me tell you on the front of the house
they have already done it and we have more Fire Chiefs here on the front of the house
the fire chiefs will get to be about I want to say like a three by three roughly I could be not
exactly right on that but once we get in the shade you can see it a little bit better not quite in a
straight line here in the front then of course a sunshine ligustrum which will get nice and full
and fill up this corner of the house beautiful Evergreen that chartreuse lime color and then
of course the Pug stirs right we do enjoy our pugster butterfly bushes mice petite butterfly
bushes this is probably going to be pugster blue but really you could choose any pugster that you
wanted to and then the limelight hydrangea tree form so here at the house because it is
a relatively small house there's not enough room to really do like a tree right here if you did a
tree maybe a North Pole Arborvitae but to bring some really fun color cannot beat the limelight
hydrangea tree form and then coming down the side of course you have the neighbors next door
nice shape of the bed and then we've got some distillium and this is probably the swing low
I should have gotten all my specs I do apologize but this is the um distillium swing low beautiful
Evergreen it is going to be much more wide than tall because you can see that there's a window
right there and we do not want to block that window but the stilium is really fun if you can
see it is just going to start putting out some buds it's not known for its flowers it really
is for a great Evergreen structure but this time of year it'll do a really nice beautiful
burgundy flowers on it and then there are three of those down the side keeping it really simple
and also keeping room if at some point they want to come back and add in some perennials or if they
want to add in little pockets of color of annuals definitely leaving them room to do that right now
we're just getting those bones in but each side of the house is going to be planted the exact
same minus the Limelight tree form there's not a limelight on this side of the house simply because
there really wasn't quite enough room you have this is the driveway right here the driveway and
then it turns into a gravel drive down the side so it's pretty narrow right here and it just felt
like it would be too crowded to put a some sort of tree form right here so more of the fire chiefs
they're kind of disappearing in the shadows but there's the fire chiefs another Sunshine ligustrum
and then repeating that pugster blue there's just one here on this corner and then coming
down we've got the gem boxes and gem boxes are a great alternative to Hollies so if you don't
want a holly but you want that great Evergreen structure then gem box is wonderful and then
they have a nice little Nook as the best way I can describe it and so we've got some Encore I
think these are encore azaleas if I'm wrong I will put all the specs up there for you
those beautiful azaleas nice good structure to it and then of course we have got a hydrangea in
there and that is a little lime so it's not going to be a big massive one it's not like a limelight
it is a little lime and then finishing on down to the side more three of those gem boxes so
it really is a very sweet very simple really kind of cleaning it up getting in here making
the flower beds with all of these beautiful plants so like on this side you have got all
Evergreen color minus that one hydrangea but that hydrangea is going to give gorgeous colors right
come late summer or late spring into summer so be really nice and then of course you will
notice if you have any kind of like here it is is the gas meter right so we left plenty of room for
if there needs to be they to come in and check it if they need to read it if they need to do
any work on it none of that landscape is in the way we've got plenty of room for the azaleas to
grow the hydrangea is far enough out so when you're looking at going around and working
around your utilities you really do kind of want to make sure that you don't put a lot of shrubs
and plants are going to take a long time to grow there now if you wanted to come in and maybe you
can't put a shrub there or I don't know something then that's where I love to use annuals because
if you like if you were to put a grass in front of it or coleus in front of it right a couple of
them then it completely hides it but it's not the end of the world if there's an emergency and they
have to get in there and rip those plants out to work on you know the gas or the utilities those
annuals can grow so much faster and be replaced so much easier than if you had like a big huge
shrub that's been growing there you know for five six years and then all of a sudden you have to rip
it out right it hurts to rip out those beautiful annuals but not quite as much as a nice beautiful
existing shrub or treat so that's just something to think about when you have utilities on that
you will also notice not that we did it but just as a general note of course here in the South we
get tons of rain and so all of our houses will have gutters on them and so you can see what they
did is a great thing they've got the gutters coming down and then on all of their gutters
do you see they have that black corrugated pipe so that catches the rain water and then it is
buried so it's buried in the ground and I don't know which direction I'm assuming maybe because
of the slope of the land that it is going to see you've got one right here too so one two
three and four so each of the corners of the house and I would assume that they're all connected and
out they go to the back so water is not going to pull up right here at the base of the house
it is not going to wash out the landscape or the mulch so keep that in mind especially if
you've got gutters and you don't have downspouts like the black corrugated to get that water away
something that's really important that you might want to consider doing and it really is pretty
easy to do fun it's kind of fun being right here on Main Street you definitely feel like you're in
a fish bowl and everybody's watching you Jackson said they had a couple of cars stopped by earlier
on and kind of peer and see but everything was you know what everything was going on but
I think everybody certainly does enjoy seeing a beautiful transformation of a yard especially when
it's in such a high visibility like this right on Main Street right before you hit downtown and
um yeah starts a beautiful a little bit of the chain a little peer pressure a little chain effect
here getting the yards all prettied up definitely is a wonderful thing so hope you've enjoyed it
hope it's been fun a little behind the scenes a lot of action going on it's kind of hard to shoot
a video in all of this but a little distracting but it's all good it's all good so as always
thanks so much for going to Creekside y'all have a great day we'll see in the next video bye friends