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Welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we are going to have a really fun easy little project
that I got done late in the afternoon you can see that it is starting to get dark you can probably
see into the house as the kids are getting ready for supper but what I wanted to do today was just
to dress up the two window boxes that are on the side of the house here along the driveway
this is a sweet little spot that I just love this Garden is a shade garden because of the
house the house gives this bed lots of shade in the wintertime it is even more shady than it is
in the summer so essentially in the wintertime there is absolutely zero Sun that hits in this
spot so I'm a little limited on what I can do in my window boxes in years the first year I
have my winter boxes I tried pansies violas kale that kind of thing it was an utter disaster just
because it gets zero sun and it was just slow death form so I have played with it for a couple
of years and what's worked what works really well is to use lots of beautiful Greenery from
our property so that is what we did today I did borrow some plants from the nursery to give me
um kind of my Thriller aspect of the container if you want to think about that so these are two
of the emerald green giant trees now these things will get massive they can get like 20 to 30 feet
tall we have some just behind Jerry's shoulder that are ginormous these are in two gallons so
they are nice and petite and very manageable you've seen me use these in other containers
before so we just literally took the pot and put them into the window boxes I got these window
boxes or hay racks whatever you want to call it from Kinsmen Garden company have used them for
years and they are great this one is huge it's like almost five feet wide so I did two of the
Emerald Greens in here not Emerald Greens green Giants I am sorry these are green Giants green
Giants are massive and so they are in here as my Thriller and then we just went to the woods and
clipped some great Magnolia leaves from the trees that grow wild in our y'all in our Woods there's
this is the time of year where I only trim on them right so Christmas time right I come in and
I clip them and they are great the two downsized those are these Magnolias is that they have green
undersides and they don't Bloom some of our more iconic Magnolias will have like a really dark
brown Underside these do not but that's okay because again using them for this time of year
they're free they're still Magnolias really pretty and then I also use for a filler is Cedar so these
are Cedars again growing wild in our Woods went in there and just trimmed you know some nice branches
and I just stuck them in there so it's really easy as far as like my method I wanted my two heights
to be even within the window box and then come in there with the Magnolias and just stick them
in use them as your fillers and then the Cedars tuck them in last so that you don't have any holes
and that we do not even see the black pots for these green Giants so this I'm one of the green
Giants to stick out more keep everything else a little low so this came out really well and then
y'all gardening does not have to be complicated at all this is a Chapel View Japanese Cedar I
believe I got that Rice Chapel View um really nice fun winter interest because it has that beautiful
kind of coppery bronze Brown if you want to say color to it it is not dead it is not dying this
is what this plant does in the wintertime if you're familiar with fire cheese very similar
to a fire chief but it brings me a different texture it brings me some height I keep this
blue pot in this shade garden and I will have you know summer annuals in it and then I worked
really hard y'all I took the container and it's still in its three gallon pot and I just lowered
the soil level and then just plopped it in there boom there you go so it will do really nicely it
can stay here all winter if I wanted to because it's very cold tolerant it will get rained on
perfectly fine to stay in here all winter lots of good interest and then my last window box is here
um it's a little bit taller as far as like higher and it's more of like a half moon shape basically
the exact same plants but you see that it has a little bit of a different look because like
I say these are sisters that are identical twins still have the Green Giant using the Magnolias the
Magnolias here were a little bit taller that's okay filling it in and then with the Cedars I
actually went between the I don't know if we can it's not going to show it because I did such a
good job but it is actually tucked in horizontally right between where we have the cocoa liner and
then the metal rod of the basket so it's tucked right in there so it's nice and secure they're
not going to come out anywhere but it just gives it a little bit of a different look it's nice
and drapey I love how the Cedars come out these will stay for quite a long time the thing I have
learned though about both of these garden boxes is that I like to have them empty end of winter
going into spring and that is because I will have little rims that come and make their nest in my
window boxes so if I leave foliage or if I leave any kind of plants in these hay racks I have birds
that come and make their nest which is not a bad thing of course we love having the birds but they
build their nest and then before I know it then there's eggs and if there's eggs well then you
have to leave the eggs and then there's babies so you have to wait for the babies to grow up and fly
the nest and by the time that happens the season has progressed quite rapidly and I am behind on
planting my hay racks so I will completely remove everything out of these hay racks that way the
little rinse can go into all the Acres of woods that are just right beside of us and not in my
boxes and that way I can plant at the appropriate time and everybody will be quite happy now I know
right now the shade garden is not looking Primo I have kind of kept up with this bed as the season
has gone on as plants have gone dormant I have cleaned them up and pulled them out not pulled
them out but pulled the foliage out for example like this is Dre's dagger this is a perennial fern
so you can see that I have gone in and just pulled back any of that dead foliage that old foliage so
what we need to do um in this bed oh don't you love that that is a euchara from Walters Gardens
um oh gosh what was the name I love this plant let's see if I have I do I have the tag right
here it is oh yes smoke and mirrors I don't know if they ever released it they sent it to me as a
trial plant I particularly absolutely love it and then that is evening gown that is a proven winners
euchara it's what I would say is like the improved version of a black pearl really nice and then look
at those beautiful spot on Pullman area we were down to 23 degrees this morning and they got a
little limpy on me but they're starting to perk back a little bit and then sweet little bashful
Betty that is a unique stone my grandmother's name is Betty so that is in honor of her and
then Annette's Holly Fern it is not actually called Annette's Holly Fern it's just a holly
Fern but I brought this back from Texas from my sweet friend Annette we went to go visit them
in Waco and she had this massive clump of Holly Fern and I said can I please take some home and
she was like of course so this is Annette's Holly fern the uh that is jack of diamonds I believe uh
Runner and doing you know hanging in there for the winter and then the Linton roses I've got some the
hellebores pink Frost here that are blooming they've got some nice sweet little buds on
them that are starting to do their thing depends on where you are in the country as to where when
they will Bloom this one is not it's nice and huge but she's not quite blooming yet typically
they will Bloom around the season of Lent that is why they're called Linton roses because it'll be
late winter early spring when they bloom we have had tons and tons of rain and I want Jerry to come
back in here on this bed it desperately needs to be re-edged because when we put down fresh
grass seed this fall you can see that I don't have a defined border so basically my border
is right here and this is my flower bed you know when you push out the grass seed inevitably some
of it comes into your flower bed so I want him to get that bed edger for me and re-edge Define this
Edge for me I can then come in here and get all this cleaned up but it's been so incredibly wet
that it would make such a big huge hot mess so once he comes in here and can re-edge it for me
I can get the weeds out on the front then we'll come back and lay down that fresh layer of that
compost pine bark fine mixture that we have and that will really kind of clean up this bed put it
to bed for the winter lamian is doing very nicely this is just a great kind of a shade perennial and
beautiful color to it and I have it in front of those sweet little mushrooms people always ask me
if we have those mushrooms for sale at the nursery we do not I got this from a local Potter that she
makes them by hand so those are from hers and then the white by the gate Camellia she's doing
well she's covered in buds this is a Japonica so it should Bloom Sometime Late winter early spring
massive huge white flowers on it should do really really well and then we've got three of these
eucharas These are it's called Dale's strain Jerry actually started these from seed many many moons
ago and I am telling you what it's about the best euchara we have it has been the heartiest
biggest performer does really well so there are three of those clumps coming down right here
but yeah I'm ready to get this bed kind of tidied up and put to bed for the winter but again there's
a couple of little maintenance things that we need to do that'll just happen you know in due
time and everything will be fine but this is a really high traffic area because we our driveway
of course is right here and we just see this spot all the time but having these window boxes
with something in them now makes me very happy I did forget to do the container on the wall so it
does it has the Feather Falls grass in it but it could use a little it could use a little Greenery
behind it to really make it pop so maybe before the holidays and we have guests come over I can
get that done but to have these two boxes done in that container something at least plopped down in
there makes me happy it looks like a a gardener lives here and so that that that's a good thing so
it's getting dark it is time for supper time for afternoon coffee we appreciate
you hope you all are having a great holiday season Christmas is going to
be here in just a few short days crazy to think about it um so again we appreciate
you we love you y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends
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