Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we have a fun little project where we are
going to plant this absolutely gorgeous Spanish Urn from Unique Stone and we are going to plant it
place it rather in the landscape and then plant it with a hydrangea I have told you in numerous
occasions that you can absolutely choose the right hydrangea and put it in a container and
leave it there for years i've always said pick the biggest container that your space will allow
because that means the bigger the pot the bigger the container the more soil it can handle and hold
and the longer your hydrangea will stay in that container and be extremely happy so to
give you a little bit of perspective of where we are there's brenna i know a lot of you have
commented that you've missed in the last couple of videos so she is here today and quite frisky
we are right here on one of the entrance beds that you can see is way down there
this is the row of limelight hydrangeas with the miss butterfly bushes that we planted
last year and then here we have the invincibelle rubies that i transplanted
in early early spring that were up at the patio several of you have asked how they are doing for
their first year being in the ground down here just being transplanted uh what six months ago
i'm very happy with them they are not on irrigation so what whatever water they
receive is from the good lord so they are doing really well there are five of them
for every success you have a little struggle so clearly can you see this one is struggling
it is still alive the great thing about the invincibles is they bloom on new growth so i can
prune this one pretty severe and it will bounce back come next spring where we are going to put
the spanish urn is right around where brenna was in this area right here the spanish urn
i have just looked at this thing and just been like man i would love to have this one because it
is on the back cover of the unique stone catalog it is quite large it is very impressive it is
simple in its decoration shall we say but just an absolute gorgeous gorgeous container this is the
ancient age i had to think for a second which color this was ancient age
and it is going to look absolutely fantastic right here now the reason that we have chosen
this spot for the urn is because it is so huge and you will see it from a far distance off so it will
make quite an impression and look really good we can easily see it from the front porch and then
people coming into the nursery you will be able to see it from there as well now what hydrangea are
we going to plant in the spanish urn well we are going to plant a tough stuff i have talked about
tough stuff several times my mama has these in her yard and they have performed fantastically well
tuff stuff is a re-blooming mountain hydrangea it is in that serrata family it will do a beautiful
lace cap bloom i have a couple of old ones that you can probably see right here it is hearty end
zones five to nine it will be a three by three at mature size it is the color of the blooms are ph
dependent so if i were to put this in the ground it would be more in that blue to purple family
however i'm going to be putting in a container so it may have a different ph level than what would
be naturally so it could turn out to be a little pink we will just find out it does bloom on both
old and new growth so it is best not to prune this whatsoever except in the spring once you
have complete flushed out foliage and you see that you maybe have some dead stems then you can prune
that you may notice that this hydrangea has black spots on its leaves this is something that we deal
with oh it is just very very common here in the south it is a fungal leaf spot leafs yeah
a fungal leaf spot that is really really common it is because of our hot humid weather this fungus is
just naturally occurring here you will even find it on trees so for example right beside of us is
an oak tree and it has it as well it really shows up this time of year late summer going into fall
and once you at this point there's really nothing that we can do for it it is not going to kill the
plant it just makes it look really unsightly the best time to prevent this is in the springtime
where you're going to use a fungicide that treats that leaf spot you can google you know
you know fungus fungicides that treat leaf spot on hydrangeas and there are lots of different
name brands that you can use to prevent this you will just need to follow the manufacturer's
directions on how to use it but this is a case of prevention is key you can't really react to
it at this point you will notice though that the new leaves that are popping out do not have it
so if you want to you could selectively come through here and pinch off these guys
and allow the new growth to show i would not go crazy i would not strip the plant this would be
something very slowly that you would do because this is a fungus you don't want to reintroduce
it back into other parts of your garden so don't compost it just throw it into your trash but that
is something that you could do like you could easily come right here and you could just snap
snap the leaf off just like that and then throw it into your trash can
so yeah so without further ado jerry and i are going to move this beautiful beast
of a spanish urn into place get it nice and leveled and then we will start planting
all right so that was that was really easy to move that spanish urn i'm telling you
if you've never picked up one of these unique stone pieces of course the smaller they are the
you know the lighter they are uh the spanish urn i don't know their exact weight on it i'd
have to look that up but yeah it is heavy you're not just going to pick that up by one person and
throw it in the back of your truck uh quite stout and will last us this pot will probably outlive me
but i love how it looks right here it is going to be a such a beautiful statement piece
another thing about the tough stuff that i forgot to tell you is that it is listed as sun to shade
but when you are in more of a warmer climate like us it's going to need afternoon shade so
the sun comes up here it rises and then goes behind these trees it will still get that five
hours i would say of direct sun especially since we pulled it more forward in the flower bed so
it is going to get lots of good sun and then a break in the afternoon this will not currently
is not going to be on irrigation at some point later we may decide to stick a drip tube in there
so how i'm going to plant it is the same way that i've always told you to plant your containers
we are going to put a really high quality compost in the bottom then a really again high quality
potting soil in the top get that sweet little hydrangea out of her container
use the biotone and then once she is in we will top dress with compost and i am going to go ahead
and top dress the very tippy top with some of the mulch because if you go to proven winter's website
and you look up a plant like whatever plant that it is that you're getting ready to add to your
garden so if you go to provenwinners.com i put in tough stuff and just read about
it really well and if you go to the bottom a lot of times they'll have like growing tips
and it will tell you how to maintain the plant especially if it's a you know it's a shrub or a
perennial they will tell you how to maintain it and then they recommend putting that nice
shredded mulch on top to top dress so that's what we're going to do so without further
ado i'm going to do exactly what i just told you and get this tough stuff into the spanish
all right so the tough stuff is almost completely planted now we're almost finished
but i wanted to show you a tip when you're planting not only a hydrangea but a shrub
as well and this will go for a container and or the landscape
so you'll see i've got all my potting soil in here i've top dressed with the compost
but i do not have any soil or compost on top of my root ball yes you do see roots and that's okay
when we top dress with mulch i'll do a very thin layer about to right here you don't want to
crowd your root ball in fact you can just come in here move that out it's well the crown rather
you don't want to have tons of stuff up here on the crown the plant needs to breathe so this is
the root ball right here you can see compost potting soil is off to the edge not on top
if you were to be planting this in the ground here like in the south and you have clay soil you would
want to have this root ball sticking out of the ground one to two inches up that way water will
shed away from the crown and not collect and be sitting right there on the crown because that will
rot the hydrangea that's one of those keys in planting with clay soil is that you want to plant
your shrubs and your trees one to two inches high out of the clay soil what i'm going to do is just
grab some mulch top dress this and then other than watering this planting will be complete
okay friends the spanish urn with the tough stuff hydrangea has been successfully planted
and watered and now we just sit back and enjoy her and let her grow it's fantastic that we get
to have this beautiful urn right here it will be cold hardy for us i don't have to
worry about it cracking or any of those kinds of things i can leave it out for multiple years
really choosing this tough stuff in here i should be able to leave this tough stuff in here
as long as i want for years and years on end if i had planted a limelight hydrangea in there
i'm looking at one to two years before it outgrows the pot and i need to move it and put it into
the landscape so that's just something to think about when you are placing shrubs into
your containers i want you to think long term be realistic of how long that shrub can stay
in there you may be able to see in the background of course that is the nursery and if you see those
orange cones that is where we have the pre-sold unique stone already there so that just kind
of gives you an idea of tying everything in while we're here i wanted to give you an update
on this entire bed it is a little woolly looking right now but that's all right we have the
five limelight hydrangeas that we planted here last year and then we have the miss
violet butterfly bush in front you can see this one on the end is just doing amazingly well
and i have got some swallow tails on it i've got let's see if i can get in there they don't mind
a beautiful black and then a beautiful yellow she he is right there so these are doing really nice
what we will do with these limelights and the butterfly bushes both of these bloom on old no
no no new growth so come winter for us i say going out of winter going into spring we want to prune
them because they bloom on new growth when you prune them you're encouraging new growth which
means new blooms late winter early spring for us can be anywhere from mid-february to mid-march
so that gives you an idea when you can prune them so that they will flush back out and be nice and
happy so that is the deal on that and then coming over here we have some more of those
invincible ruby hydrangeas these were planted the same time that this whole bed was planted last
year you can see how much bigger they are than the ones i planted in the spring none of this bed
this section at least is on irrigation so that gives you an idea of the growth and then these
beautiful things are popcorn viburnum they are a snowball bush a lot of people will know
snowball bushes this is a deciduous viburnum it is an early early spring bloomer and it looks very
much like a hydrangea bloom with the mop head we have had rapid tons of growth on these viburnums
you can see here this lighter color green we've got more flushing out just really nice these will
get big so what we will need to do and we knew this when we planted them is i have a poplar
tree right here that we'll need to kind of limb up a little bit we can come in here with the pole saw
and get all these limbs limbed up that is most definitely going to be a winter project because
if if you've gardened for again more than five minutes you know that late summer is
when all the critters are out all of the poison ivy for us is out and going wild so you don't
want to mess with that so this is a great job for winter projects coming in and limit of the trees
so we will do that then and then we had told you about our irrigation woes on this bed i am happy
to report that everybody is much happier much perkier i know obviously we don't have tons of
blooms yet but the plants especially the impatiens are just so much happier so i suspect that we will
be getting some blooms really soon in fact excuse the weeds y'all it is just real life around here
you can see this one even though it looks bad on the back side on the front side we have blooms
and then this sweet little thing with the morning glory vine coming in is has got new buds all over
it so i think we're going to be okay the one the side of it too is doing really nice so even though
it's not anything like its neighbor just right across the way it is coming along and
it will be fine overall so project complete on today's list so we can mark that one off
it's really fun gardening for us is definitely a year-round hobby there is always something to do
in the garden so just get out there have fun and enjoy your time in your space as always thanks
so much for going to the creekside you all have a great day we'll see you the next video bye friends
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