Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today we have a very fun project i am
going to be planting the wheelbarrow that is right behind me if you have been to the nursery you have
seen this wheelbarrow it is obviously right here uh beside the bridge that goes over to The Pines
when i first got this idea of bringing an old dilapidated wheelbarrow that we could not use
anymore because it was just broken apart jerry thought i was like had officially lost my mind but
it has been here for several years now and i have always had the most fun planting this wheelbarrow
and if i do say so myself it always turns out to be like one of the most popular attractions
here at the nursery so when you're looking for a container just think outside the box if it
can hold soil and retain some moisture then you are good to go you can turn it into a container
we'll show you some of the fun things that we have done in the past today we're going
to somewhat replicate not replicate that sounds like i'm going to copy i'm not copying i'm going
to use some inspiration from a couple of years ago where i used the rockin salvia blue suede shoes
the rockin blue suede shoes salvia i'll get it straight here in a minute in the container
with snow drift and the dichondra silver falls it was spectacular today i have a whole wagon
full of gorgeous plants that i am going to use in the wheelbarrow one is rockin deep purple
now this is not quote a new plant to you but it is an improved version and this was part of the
the new introductions that pleasantview sent us to try out this year rocking deep purple is i think
it was the first one of the line and this is just deep gorgeous purple blooms but the deep purple
plant was what i would tell people was the little bit of the kind of the wildest and the most unruly
of the whole line so proven winners recognize that and so they have made it more compact and more
um well-behaved for the garden so i have two of those that i'm going to put in here
along with some super bells some agile adams some bidens uh osteospernums and sam some sweet alyssum
we're gonna we're gonna really fill this thing up the whole inspiration to this entire container was
the artist blue azure adam i wanted to use it somewhere it is new for us it's not new to the
market but it is new for us and i wanted to incorporate it so i started with that plant
and then i added as we went along now um in my container i did empty it completely out i had the
cleopatra canna lilies in here last year when i emptied out the soil literally the roots
took up the entire container and there was i did not have any loose soil in there whatsoever
that's why i always tell you start with fresh soil please do not put filler in the bottom of
your containers what do i mean by filler packing peanuts plastic old plastic bottles pine cones
if you are trying to save money i certainly understand that especially in this time of
day and age where everything is getting more expensive go for a smaller pot use less plants
because your plants cannot get nutrition from packing peanuts and water bottles they need
the soil to that retains the moisture in the food for their roots to grow so that's
a little bit of a soapbox of mine so always fill your containers completely with potting
soil what i'm going to do is uh yeah so in here is great potting soil i did layer a nice the bottom
layer is the land and seed compost and then i have just great potting soil you know how
much i love the proven winter that's the only one i use so it is in there and it is nice and
full this container will go it is now mid april we have we are so close to our last frost date
um so we should be have no more frost and it will go all the way through november so without
further ado um we are going to get planting on this beautiful container all right so here we
go uh i am i will go ahead and apologize i feel like i don't know how the lighting is on this
on the camera on the video so i will be sure to give you nice and good close-ups when we're done
but we're fighting with nature it is what it is again fully filled with gorgeous fresh potting
soil i am going to go ahead and give this a little bit of extra slow release fertilizer
that just really sustains these plants all the way through i'm not going to give a
ton i am just going to give a couple little spoonfuls there is a lot of soil in here so
mix it in and this will go a very long way and it does make a difference when
when you can't get to your plants all the time and give them liquid fertilizer on a regular basis now
i'm going to use two of the rock and deep purple salvias i'm going to go ahead and tell you that
they are small because these are the trial plants that of course came to us from pleasant view
so there is like a six to eight week difference between these plants and the ones that i'm going
to use here in a minute but let's see if i can we're doing the dance with the camera here
show you just how pretty they are and how they're already starting to put on some
little buds and some blooms i know this plant really well even though it is the improved
version i know this plant it will get huge i am not worried about them being small now
and then um you know just being kind of overtaken by the other plants they will very very quickly
um pick up and go to town and growing so they already have nice good roots on them
i'm gonna plant them this is gonna be my what you would consider like your thriller in your
container nice tall tall and full they will get 24 to 36 inches tall and they this minimum spacing is
about 18 inches 24 inches i'm going to plant them a little bit closer because this is a container
but even being right here they're going to get nice and tall and full and fill in this
whole area now you may have noticed here that i have my little truck because the last time
i did a planting my gosh some of y'all just about lost your ever loving minds because i
was throwing pots on the ground that's just how i garden i just toss things and then i clean up
so i got a little truck here for you uh to to make you feel better now for the artist blue addrems
i haven't exactly planned out how this is going to go
exactly in my brain like the layout of everything um so we have the artist blue
which will get 12 inches tall then i have the double moon glow osteosphernum the bright lights
it too will get eight to 12 inches tall so they're going to be about the same size then i have my
goldilocks rocks which is just oh my gosh this is one of my absolute favorites 8 to 14 inches tall
so in a container prime conditions i'm going to go ahead and say it's going to be some of my taller
ones and it will go wide as well so i'm going to kind of stick this a little bit towards the back
and then i have the super bells blue moon punch which is definitely one of my smaller shorter
ones that spills over so i know that that will come to the front and i also have white knight
which is a definite spiller 8 to 12 inches tall so i had decided i was going to kind of put it
here on the end and kind of spilling out so that's roughly
i think the layout of it obviously i'm going to use a lot more plants in here
so let's go ahead and i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to intermingle the artist blue
the goldilocks rocks and the ost the bright lights osteosphere because this is really my
first time planting both the um the artist blue azure adam and the bright lights bright lights
are a fantastic annual that will just give you lots of color early on in the season they are
definitely a cool weather plant so they're great for early for spring early summer and then fall
they really with our heat and humidity they tend to kind of i don't want to well the best way i
can explain it is kind of what i call peter out right they just kind of fade away they melt in the
heat and the humidity of our summer so that's okay in this container because when they are
on their way out my bidens and everything else will fill in and just kind of cover them up and if
i want to pull them out i certainly can but having them in here as a bright nice early season color
is a great option for sure i had pulled five of everything i don't think i have enough room
because even though i am going to fill it full i'm not going to just jam pack
it because i am thinking long term here for i want this to last for a long part of my season
so we're going to stick let's stick one of these in here so maybe i'll use three of everything
that kind of ended up in a row i did not really mean for that to end up in a row but it did
yeah it'd be fine all right so my osteos now double moon glow is a gorgeous double bloom on it
and i have found that because you know most time i tell you that you don't need to deadhead your
plants and you don't have to deadhead the osteos but i have found that it certainly does help with
their flower production so you just take the old spent blooms just cut them back
as far as you can one of course it cleans up the plant it makes the plant look neater and
this one snipped off it got a little bent so we'll go ahead and cut it off
and there we go get them in the ground
all right so what i think i'm going to do is i'm just going to kind of play around a little bit
and get these planted and then once everything's planted i will come back
and we will kind of chit chat and figure out exactly how it looks in the end we'll all learn
together how this thing is going to turn out but i'm going to get to planting and yeah so much fun
all right so i got everybody planted and i know right now it's a little bit of kind of
it's a little bit of the menagerie of color and it may look it looks a little oddly planted in
my opinion because the salvias are still so small i know without a doubt these things
are going to very quickly get huge and fill in and get massive and tall and thick and bushy so
i'm thinking in long term i am not thinking instant if i were having a big like party or
get together or social event where i needed this to look full right now i would not have used these
two salvias i would have come up with something else that's nice and full and probably put in more
plants so when you're planting your containers you have to have your goal in mind right my goal
is long-term color and beauty and interest that will last me all the way through late fall
hence this is why it is planted the way it is if you have watched us for any length of time you
know that i am a huge proponent of when you finish your containers to top dress them with a nice thin
layer of mulch this is just the same mulch that we use in our landscape it is simply a hardwood
um mulch it helps one instantly kind of clean up the container so i don't have any potting soil
that is showing it's just a nice little pockets of pretty plants and some nice mulch also it will
help retain moisture obviously this wheelbarrow is not on irrigation there is drainage holes
in it but it is not per se on irrigation so the only time it will get watered is if we water it
or it rains um so there we go on that so it just the mulch helps retain that moisture so
you don't have to water as often it insulates the roots helps keep the weeds down exact same
reasons that you use it in your landscape so i am just going to finish up and get this mulch down
all right my friends the uh wheelbarrow is planted with some very bright very happy
cheery colors super excited about it i cannot wait to watch this grow and develop
in my brain it is going to be gorgeous of course we will keep you updated on this
probably most likely through when we do nursery tours because we will be coming by this a lot but
just to recap okay so here in the back my little tiny ones my little tiny uh deep purple salvias
that have two of them they will get nice and big um and then we've got the goldilocks rocks bidens
that are sprinkled out through there they will get some height to them but they will also get nice
and wide they are a massive pollinator attractor i had to kind of shoe off some honeybees in order
to pick these plants out out of the nursery so if you're looking to attract pollinators to your
garden the goldilocks rocks bidens is a fantastic one to do so goldilocks rocks of course is in here
then for a nice softer yellow with a little bit of white in there is the double moon glow
osteospherum it's the bright lights double moon glow bright lights is the series double moon glow
is the color osteosporinums they will again nice 12 inches tall and get wider they will kind of
start to fade away in the heat of the summer so that's okay i have planned for that and
the other plants will take over and fill in those holes so that's not that big of a deal
but for the spring it sure is a nice cherry pop of color so we've got those then of course the artist
blue azure adams really excited to see how these do for us i personally have never grown them but
everything that i've read so that they handle the heat and humidity like a champ they can get you
know 12 inches tall and nice and wide so they will fill in here i think the blue of the azure adam
with kind of the deep purple of the salvia will be a very nice color companion with one another
and then to kind of bring that in we have the super bells blue moon punch i ended up putting
three of them right here and i actually pulled all the soil away and made like a trough and just put
them right beside each other these will get nice and get some height to them and then they will
spill over and it will be gorgeous and then on the very end we did the white night sweet alyssum if
you've never done a listen before one it smells amazing it has the sweetest little smell to it
almost kind of a honeysuckle smell it will get is a major trailer so it will spill over really well
it obviously has those continuous blooms on it all season long and it does like to be wet so
if you're going to put it in the landscape or in a container you're going to want to put it with
things that like to have a lot of moisture i have the perfect spot at the patio because this area
when it rains the water just kind of all comes this way didn't know that because it's our first
year being in those beds so i am putting alyssum in that spot because it loves all of that water
and will do really well so this container is going to have height to it it is going to be filled in
and it is going to have spillers very very fun container that will last me all the way through
the fall hopefully you have found some plants that are interesting to you and that you have
added to your gardening journal that you can be on the lookout for and as always thanks so much for
gardening with creekside y'all have a fantastic day and we'll see in the next video bye friends
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