Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we're going to have a little
fun planting some spring-flowering bulbs yes I am excited it is November my bulb orders have just
started to arrive within the last week so we are super excited about that
now we have talked about this before i am not planting any of like tulips or um
alliums those kinds of things that require a nice long cold winter because those are
hanging out in the refrigerator we are zone 7b so zones 7b and higher warmer need to have
that time of pre-chilling what we are going to be planting today are some junk bowls and some
snow drops which i am super excited about because i've never done snow drops before
this is going to be a big test hopefully it will go fantastic and they will be gorgeous so
jonquils daffodils right so in the south we plant the jungle types of daffodils because they are for
the warmer climates they handle our mild winters very well they naturalize they're deer resistant
they just do fantastic same thing with the snow drops the galanthus you do not have to pre-chill
them they will do fine in our warmer weather so the area we're going to work on is right here
behind me that the bench is at this is right above remember our garden boxes so we will see this
area and i can sit on my bench and enjoy these beautiful flowers the jungles that we're gonna
plant today sorry y'all words are hard and there's a lot of things going on so if you hear some noise
in the background that is the fellas working on the greenhouse so if you hear lots of banging and
clanging it's just them they're fine um but we are going to plant the southland grand mixture
of jonquils from van england i get all my bulbs from van england i love them because they do
have lots of varieties that are for us here in the south of course you have to look at the different
um varieties like specifically to see what will work in our zone 7b but they do have a good amount
so we're going to do the sapling grand mixture because i also have it already down through going
along the driveway so that will tie in nicely here and then we're going to do the galanthus l
you all know me in pronunciation
i l z i words are hard it's up there it's a snowdrop it does great it's beautiful we'll put
all the information up you get what i'm saying um but jonquils do not like to be wet so we're gonna
plant them up in the higher section underneath the crepe myrtle the snowdrops can handle a little bit
more moisture so we're going to plant them down here at the bottom along where the lavender is
the lavender is going to come out probably not today but we're going to take that out because
it's just not performing well so let me flip the camera around let me show you what we're
gonna do okay so just to give you a little bit of a perspective this is the area that
we are working with this is the flower bed right here that i just planted the garlic in
um and then there is the southern estate bench from unique stone that we just got it is up
i did not even know until y'all told me in the video that we had put one of the legs upside down
that's what happens when you're tired and exhausted but jackson cayman helped me fix
it it still needs a little bit of leveling but for right now it is great so what we're going
to do is because to access this point we're going to have to come up here through right here by the
laura peddlings so first things first is we're going to come in here and trim this bad boy up
because you can see it is overtaking the area that way i'll have access to walk up here
then of course this is munstead lavender we've talked about this before munstead runs throughout
the bed it is not doing well here it just is not thriving so we will dig it up and transplant
it somewhere else but where we are going to plant is going to be all through right in here
those are the little limes up there and so i've got my power planter here i've got my
bulbs that was the level for the bench and then we're going to top dress with the land and see
so first things first we are going to trim back this lower pedal so that i can walk through here
do
laura pedal has been trimmed back now if it looks like in some of the areas it's a little thin
i'm not worried about it yes it's winter time and we're going to go in and it's not going to put any
more foliage in this area but come spring after it blooms i am going to whack these lore petalums
back big time because they've just gotten too big i did not prune them this spring which i
should have so i will do it this coming spring i will show you how to do it basically don't worry
about a lower pedal you cannot trim it back these things are practically indestructible especially
once they're established you can take them back to just the base trunk and they will come back
on you so what i did was i just trimmed and then i walked up and down my path a couple of times
to make sure that none of the limbs were in the way once i knew that i could walk away
through it back and forth without getting whacked in the head then i felt good about
it so what we're going to do now is start planting and figure out where these bulbs are going to go
so if we come up the little path that i just created um what i want to do again is
that the jungles are going to go up on the higher end of this area kind of over here where starting
kind of behind here and then up through i'll leave me a little area maybe even i will go
behind the bench and i will plant some up on that ridge just a little bit i am going to plant them
using my power planter auger we've used this a gazillion times before remember this is the 9
inch auger and it has the great little tip right here on the end that will break through
our compact clay i may run into some roots from the crepe myrtle but that will take care of it
for me and then i will plant the snow drops more along kind of the front side and i'll
do do them in little groups so i'm just going to take the auger and start digging some holes
do
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all right friends so i have gotten all the holes dug for both the jonquils and the snow drops we're
going to go ahead and get them planted again this is going to be an experiment i mean what's not an
experiment here at creekside but we're going to do a little experiment with these guys to see how
they do here um the daffodils jonquils are going to be a little bit closer to this crepe myrtle
dealing with some of those roots i think they will be fine of course i'll all those holes and
got them nice and loose i don't think the root competition is going to be too strong
between the jonquils and the crepe myrtle but we'll see and then of course like i said the
snow drops are going to come closer to the edge where the lavender was my sweet mama came down
and is helping me so we decided to go ahead and move those lavenders so we dug them up
and then moved them over just down the bed down the bed a little bit in front of the roses of
sharon that we planted earlier in the season i don't know a month or so ago i will show you
those in a little bit but right now i'm going to do is just throw a little bit of biotone
in the hole and then start planting these bulbs the jonquils need to go six inches deep
and spaced i want to say six inches apart from each other basically i have
eight or nine holes we're gonna make a hundred of them fit in there probably a bit of them a
little bit too close but hey whatever and then the snow drops only go two to four inches down
because of course they are smaller i'll put all the specs up on the screen so we make sure that
we get it right and the information is correct so i'm gonna do i'm just going to throw some biotone
in the hole put the bulbs in of course the flat side the the will go down the pointy side goes
up and then cover them back with soil and then we will check back with each other here in a minute
do
okay sweet friends this project is done i have almost 200 bulbs planted a hundred of the
snow drops not quite all hundred of the jonquals because those bulbs were so huge that they just
didn't fit in all my holes and honestly i'm tired it's time for lunch and i didn't want to dig any
more holes so what i'll do is just add those to another planting that i'm going to do because
i've got several packets of that grand southland mixture or southland grand mixture whatever it is
it's a good blend for the south okay so behind me you can see the area that's darker i went ahead
and did add land and see on top when i was reading through van engelin's horticulture tips on how to
plant the different things with the jungles they advised not putting any kind of compost
in the hole they said you can top dress but not to put it in the hole directly not to burn the
bulbs i don't think land and sea would burn it but just to be on the safe side so that is the whole
darker mixture right there and then you can see a little bit behind the crepe myrtle right there
that i went ahead wherever i planted bulbs i top dress with land and sea yes we will come
back and we will mulch this whole bed but we're really waiting for the leaves to fall
to do that because we'll come in here and do all the way from this whole section the little limes
the fire lights the nelly stevens hollies all of those will get mulched so we will just do
that at one time again if you um your soil is not moist or you're not going to get some rain
you do want to water these in for us that is not an issue we are going to have a solid day of rain
in the next day or so so i'm not worried about it they're in there and doing great again planted the
jonquils up higher because they hate wet feet they will rot planted the snow drops down a little bit
lower because they can handle a bit more moisture there is no irrigation in this part of the bed
so anything that they're going to get is going to come off of rain when it comes down the hill or
if for some reason there should be a little bit of residual of irrigation from up top above them
then they will get watered in again this is just going to be fun
i think this will be a nice little experiment if everything turns out great it is going to be
gorgeous we will see this from lots of areas my kitchen window the driveway the bench
i mean it's really high visible area so i'm excited about that i do think that i will
continue with these jungles up around higher up but that will be for another day so we can tie
all of those in together but before we leave i do want to show you where i planted that lavender
before we hit the lavender i do want to show you just from a different perspective where these
bulbs are planted so you can see where the land and sea is down here front near the rocks and then
up there beginning right here at the corner of this between the little lime and the crepe myrtle
all the way up behind and behind the bench now you'll see that behind the bench right now is
a little bit shadier so that's the experiment because the jonquils can do full sun to part shade
as the sun pivots around during the day it will get more sun so we will just see
but you can tell if if this does what they're supposed to do it is going to
be an absolutely beautiful area come this spring here is where we planted the lavender
so right behind you can see obviously the lavender right in here yes and then right behind
get my finger right up in here are those three roses of sharon that we planted late summer
purple pink ink i believe that is so they will get nice and tall and skinny then we have
the lavender in front we ended up with five clumps we did consolidate some of the clumps
the small ones into to make it bigger ones but i think this will turn out really nice these are
munstead lavender it is not on irrigation will not be on irrigation because lavender likes it dry the
roses of sharon however will have irrigation on them so the lavenders will get a little bit
of residual water coming from that so we have the lavenders and yes they look
a little sad right now it's all right it's november and then the little limes
moving on down and then that is the crepe myrtle where we just planted those bulbs
so we are going to wrap it up for today but as always thank you so much for gardening
with creekside y'all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends