okay hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny
and today we are going to talk about more gorgeous shrubs
that can help solve some really common issues
that people have in their yards a lot of times we'll get people at the nursery
who just need help because they have some sort of
problem in their landscape and they need plants to help them fix it so today i am
going to share with you five beautiful shrubs from proven
winners that will help solve some really common
issues in your landscape now again i know i keep harping on this
but it is october it is the fall this is the perfect time
to be planting in your garden whether it is perennials
or shrubs or trees the fall is absolutely the best
time especially in the south to be planting these into your landscape
why because we have cooler temperatures it's
not so blazing hot and the humidity is finally giving us a break
so the plants are not going to have as much shock going into the ground it's
also less work on you because you're not going to have to be out there
watering them once a day or twice a day this is a great time because we're
getting more consistent rain and the roots are going to have
lots of time to get established and really well
rooted into the ground before the summer hits
our winters here truly are really mild compared to the rest
of the country we have very mild winters and even though you may not see a lot of
growth happening on top of the plant down underneath in the root system there
is a lot of things happening and so we want to give the plant as much
time as it possibly can to have a good root system so we're going to talk about
these five shrubs we may have covered these before but
they are worth mentioning again now the first one that we're going to
talk about is jukebox let me show you this
fantastic tag because i know you sweet people love
your tags and that you love to write down the
information so jukebox this is going to be one for
those of you who need a low ground cover it is a great evergreen
before i show you the plant i'm going to show you all of the information so if
you have your gardening journal you can see it it is hearty in zones
seven to nine it is only going to be one foot tall and
three feet wide again it is a gorgeous
evergreen shrub now this is one of those that we were
growing as little quartz um gosh we planted it up back in like
july but you can see the habit on this is
very low and wide so if you have an area maybe you have a bank
that you that gets a lot of wash on it but you don't need
something really tall you need something low well jukebox
would be a great option for you again because it can get three feet wide but
not very tall at only one foot so it's not
going to block a view for you again if you have it by your entryway
this is a great ground cover i know a lot of times people are like i want my
mo the most bang for my buck something
that's really going to kind of spread but not be
you know high maintenance well jukebox is one of those
fantastic plants all right next we are going to go with we've
talked about this before this is scentlandia and scentlandia
is a sweet spire and not only is it a sweet spire
it is a native shrub now why do we want sweet spires
if you have a really wet area this one would be a great one
scentlandia is called scentlandia because
of its beautiful sweet fragrance this is going to do great in sun or
shade hello we love that so if you have a wet area that is either
in the sun or the shade scent landy is going to be a great one
hardy end zones five to nine extremely versatile
not a huge plant two to three feet tall and wide so it's
very very manageable and it does look at this let me show you the plant
right now it is not only do you get beautiful spring
foliage and white flowers that smell amazing
so this is not really something i can show you up close
but it also has gorgeous fall color and you can see that it is just
now starting to get some of those red hues to it
so this shrub is going to give you three seasons of interest it is going to be
deciduous so in the wintertime you're going to lose
the leaves but you will still have your structure there
but spring you're going to have gorgeous new foliage then you're going to have
these beautiful nice big white almost like finger like
blooms on it that smell amazing big attractor to the pollinators and then of
course this time of the year going into the late fall
it will just turn this brilliant red so for those of you with really wet areas
think about scentlandia going along with scentlandia
in the fact that this is a another another native shrub this is one
that i am so stinking excited about and look at this name how cute is that
sugar shack now you see on there sugar shack is also called it's a type of
button bush so you can see that it has that really
unique white bloom so that is the bloom on it
now this time of year those blooms forgive me my tags a little dirty look
at this the white turns into a gorgeous red
absolutely beautiful fall foliage not only does it have the red little
button balls on it but the foliage will also turn now this is
another great one because it is a native plant it is going to be
really really versatile extremely low maintenance high performer sun to
part shade three to four feet tall and wide
does really well in moist soil look again this is another one that we were
growing since this early summer but look at that foliage really
really pretty it's starting to turn that nice burgundy
color just another fantastic
really neat unusual plant that if you have
moist damp areas that you can put it in there it will again
be deciduous
uh let's see where we're gonna go next next we are going to go
to vanilla spice now sometimes i get these two mixed up
but vanilla spice is another native plant
it is a summer suite or technically a plethora here we go here are all of your
information for you and it's going to be very
similar in kind of the look that the scentlandia
is because it has those really nice white plumes on it it is going to
be sun to part shade really really versatile zones four
to nine so that basically covers almost the entire
country so not only is it good for the south
but a lot of different areas now this is gonna be a little bit bigger this is
gonna be three to six feet tall and three to three to five feet wide
again loves the moist soil i know that we have
one customer that we've done landscaping for and for some reason
her front beds are just soaking wet we've put in a french drain we've
checked irrigation it's full sun for most of the day but it is
just a really wet area so gardenias can be kind of
funky sometimes as far as how their water goes
so we put in some of these plants that love
that lots of moisture so if you've done everything that you can do and it still
is problematic just find the shrubs that will fit in
that area maybe it's not something that's super moist but it's super dry
go for drought loving plants but so vanilla spice right now she is just a
great pretty little green shrub very simple um but she has lots of nice
new foliage on her just a really pretty green shrub at this
point this is one of those that we were growing
from quartz so they have not even gone through one full season
now last but not least we have talked about this before
but it is worth repeating beauty berries this is pearl glam beauty berry from
proven winners right now pearl glam is really getting
into all of her glory because she is putting on her beautiful
purple berries let me give you the requirements here
now beauty berries do need lots of sun they like the sun
they um in the springtime put on these gorgeous white flowers those
flowers will then turn into the gorgeous purple berries
that give it its name of a beauty bush so again this might be a little tricky
here but you can see very upright we love proglam because she
is more upright than sprawling so i'm going to try to
find some berries here and come in and show you
now these berries are still not as bright
as they will be in probably a couple of weeks right now they're just a nice
purple but pretty soon they will act actually
be like practically glowing because they have just that
gorgeous bright brilliant purple now beauty
berries again they're another native plant
we love beauty berries of course because they fit into tight spaces
but they are also a great natural mosquito repellent so
if you deal with mosquitoes and you need some help and you're not wanting to
maybe take some you know drastic measures as far as like spraying your
yard use the plants that will be natural
repellents to those little pesky critters
and pearl glam beauty berry is one of those plants
so those are five shrubs that can help you deal with some really common
issues that happen in people's landscapes i hope that you have found
this informative i hope that you have found it helpful to give
gotten some ideas of how you can use these plants
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