Hey friends today we get to plant this gorgeous Royal Star magnolia if you watched yesterday's
video I gave you a little sneak peek and told you that this was going to be happening I wasn't
really planning on planting this tree today but when I was up at the shrub lot and I saw
it blooming well she just had to join my garden if you're not familiar with the Royal Star of
Magnolia oh my gosh they are fantastic first of all obviously they are deciduous so this is not
going to be your classic Magnolia that you may think of with those Evergreen big waxy leaves it
is deciduous in early spring I mean here we are in February and this sweet thing is starting to bloom
early spring Bloomer that does these gorgeous double white blooms that have a delicious
fragrance to them I mean they are just very delicate but very fragrant yesterday when
this was up on the shrub lot the honeybees were all over these blooms it has it started to bloom
obviously because I have some but it is also absolutely covered in buds so that's one of
the probably the the biggest attraction right of the royal star magnolia is that it has those early
Pure White double blooms delicious fragrance to them this is going to be more upright than it is
wide so if you have a narrow space this would work really well it could go along like an entrance or
the side of your house like something narrow right so it's going to be I believe I'll put the specs
up there I want to say 15 to 20 feet tall about 10 to 12 feet wide and really adaptable it does
well and well draining really kind of nice loamy soil lots of good or organic matter so we've got
some landancy compost we're going to add to it it is considered a full sun tree or shrub you can use
it kind of either way I know right now it looks like we're in the shade there's a couple things
happening there one it is winter time so we're in some winter sun not Summer Sun two it is later in
the afternoon so the morning sun has already gone and um we do we are right here along the
tree line so this will get the full six hours that is considered full sun it's just the time
of the day and a time of year right now that we are in the shade we are going to put this at kind
of the back of the property and it's going to be really a lone specimen tree it is right here along
where we have our evergreen trees on the back of the property and behind me is the patio we've got
that beautiful cherry tree that has started to bloom so we're going to have the cherry
tree blooming about the same time same time as this Royal star magnolia so excited to get it in
the ground pretty basic we are going to use the Machinery because this is a 15 gallon container
so Jackson brought the bobcat bobcat down for us with the auger on it so we're gonna get a nice big
hole nice and aerated soil we're going to use our biotone in there and then like I said we're going
to amend a little bit with our land and Seed compost and then top dress so if you ever see
a royal star magnolia in the nursery and you've got a good spot for it grab one you will not be
disappointed with these beautiful beautiful spring blooms so without further Ado we are going to get
everything set up and we're going to get a hole dug for this sweet thing okay folks so you know we
are all about like being real and being honest so we were down there in that spot where we were you
know where I told you we were going to put it and we started thinking and looking around and we're
like yeah this may not be like the actual best spot for it because of getting really good intense
Sun clearly where I'm standing right now gets lots of good Sun as it is a slap up in my face
um but we're gonna move it and we're gonna put it here so that was just the meeting of the
minds between Jerry Jackson and myself because this is a smallish tree it'll fit really well
so behind me I have the two Oakland Hollies right the Dahlia beds just directly in front
of me the little garden shed is right off here to the side and what's going to be really nice
about this is that we will be able to see this sweet thing when we come in from the driveway
so we're going to get lots of views maybe not when we're sitting on the patio that's why we
have the cherry tree to give us that gorgeous color that way but when we come in and pull in
we'll have this gorgeous tree right here we don't have to worry about the maple tree because again
this one will be more petite in size they're not going to compete for each other so this is a great
little spot to put it Jackson is going to OG my hole and so I'm going to let him get after it
foreign
I got the Royal star magnolia planted in her new home now you may be looking at it because I know
y'all are all about some straight trees and it may seem like it's a little crooked it's not crooked
it's the fact that it's a multi-trunk tree and there was a large limb that I just noticed that
had been trimmed at some point so that's the beautiful thing though because it being right
here sun comes up right here and sun sets over my right shoulder so this is going to get lots of sun
all the way around it and it's still growing right so this tree is going to grow and it's going to
flush out and it's going to fill in quite nicely now the maintenance on this Royal Star really you
don't need to prune it if you wanted to keep it more of a tree shape instead of like a shrub you
know I guess every spring you could come in and lemon up at the bottom so that you don't have
the full coverage you have more of a trunk I don't know what I'm going to do I kind of like the idea
of leaving it as more of a full shrub than as a trunk tree so I am not planning on pruning this
at all of course that could change in the coming years but for now I'm just going to let it grow
you're going to want to water it thoroughly and deeply those first couple of years right it is a
tree just like other trees you want to water it nice and deep especially in those periods in the
Summer where you have lots of heat and maybe not a lot of rain the beautiful thing about putting it
here as opposed to where we were going to put it is that there is a hose right here at the garden
shed so one of the best ways to water a tree in nice and slow is to get your hose and just have
it on a trickle just a very small stream right put it right there at the base of the tree set
your timer on your phone or your watch for 45 minutes and do that once a week if it's really
hot and intense maybe twice a week you want that soil to be moist not like you know sopping wet but
so be easy to water it nice and thorough I do not need to water it now because of course we are in
February we've had tons of rain this soil is very moist the tree was had plenty of moisture in it
and then it's going to rain in two days so I don't have to worry about watering it once my heat hits
then that's when I'll you know be more concerned about making sure that it gets regular water
it does have the biotin which is a great start of fertilizer so I don't need to fertilize it right
now in the coming months though uh six to eight weeks would be about the earliest that I would
want to do it I could go ahead and fertilize it Magnolias tend to like that acid loving
fertilizer so Holly tone would be a great one to use on that and you just put it around the drip
line of the tree and just work it in with your fingers into the compost I did top dress with
lots of good compost the land and Seed of course it will amend the soil it helps retain moisture
in here now when we do redo this bed as far as like with a top covering of mulch and everything
then of course this will get mulched as well but this is just fine for right now so she is
very happy I'm just going to let her go and let her grow and enjoy her beautiful flowers if you
want to use them as some cut flowers you certainly can I think I'm just going to let her do her own
thing this year and just enjoy her and come out here and sniff on her beautiful flowers and let
the honeybees and the pollinators enjoy her as well before we leave I'm going to show you our
cherry tree because she is so pretty and she is really starting to come into full bloom so let's
just move right over just there and let me show you the cherry tree all right my friends so I
am standing right beside our Okami cherry tree this is an ornamental cherry tree it does not
produce fruit but she does produce some beautiful lovely soft pink flowers if it's not the earliest
blooming cherry tree is one of the earliest we have yoshino's in the berm and they're not even
thinking about blooming right now where Okami here is just she's not in full bloom but she's getting
she's getting pretty close I don't think you can probably see but there are honeybees all over
these blossoms they are enjoying the fragrance and all the great nectar in here very nicely and I can
hear there's just a buzz so this is really fun because we have this beautiful cherry tree right
here it's just right off the patio we can see it from inside the house we can see it on the back
porch we can see it on the patio when Jerry and Emily go and park they can see it as well
this is the third spring for this Okami and so it will just continue to grow and Bloom and Thrive
and get nice and big obviously this is going to be a single trunk treat so we will keep it that
way and just let the canopy get nice and big that way we can come in here and have plenty of plants
underneath which I do but yeah so this is just something to think about when you're planting
your garden right think of those Four Seasons I realized a couple of years ago I was like we do
not have anything for really early spring whether you want to call it late winter or early spring
we were really lacking so that's where the Okami cherry tree the Royal star magnolia your Japonica
Camellias all of those are going to be blooming this time of year right so coming out of winter
going into spring it still can be quite chilly uh like this morning it was in the 30s but it
should these flowers should be able to handle it to like a light freeze now if we had a hard hard
freeze it would burn them off but thankfully we don't have any of that kind of weather coming in
anytime soon but just look at your garden all year round and kind of figure out where are you lacking
a lot of times we just think of like early spring early spring summer that time with lots of annuals
and lots of flower power which is wonderful and amazing and I love that but our Gardens are with
us for you know 12 months out of the year so let's think about all those different months
in the year and let's add to it and that's the beautiful thing about Gardens is you're constantly
adding tweaking changing evolving however you want want to look at it they are always growing
and so that's really fun to add in so between this Okami and the Royal Star man I think we are off to
a great start so if you come across either one of these make sure you if you've got room grab
them and put them in your yard early spring color it's a fantastic thing as always thanks so much
you're going with Creekside you all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends