Hello friends today we are going to add massive flower power and color to the Berm you were with
us just the other day when we installed all of the beautiful Sprinter boxwoods as a defined
border here on the berm this was all Jerry's idea this was his Creation in his brain and so we are
bringing it to fruition today so just to recap right so we were here and we have installed all
of these they're on the small side which is what we want the Sprinter box was to give us a defined
border defined edges for these annual flower beds this is the side of the berm that faces the house
and so when we sit on our front porch or look out the front of our house we will see all of
this beautiful color at this time we are planning on these three sections these three flower beds
to stay as annual plantings that may change in the coming years but we do enjoy our beautiful
annual color and so we just thought this would be a really fun area to bring in those annual colors
and we can completely switch up the color scheme or the type of plants from here to here this year
however we are going with loads of supertunias we absolutely are so the two flower beds that
are going to be the beds that are inside of the Sprinter box Woods right there by the Yoshino
cherry trees we are going to go with the beautiful Jazz Berry so this is supertunia Vista jazzberry
it is the newest Vista on the series or in the series and it makes a great landscape petunia so
we first saw this in Mass planting when we went to go visit our friends at Pleasant View Gardens
up in Loudon New Hampshire they're kind of famous because they have this pergola that they plant the
top of it with and they had a jazzberry just a solid jazzberry in there and it made such a
massive statement so we are continuing with that jazzberry is a little bit more of a richer pink
kind of a raspberry color if you will but nice big beautiful blooms does great in the landscape
so that is going to go in the center of the boxwoods now for a little bit of color contrast
we are going to go with the beautiful this is the supertunia Vista snow drift and it is a beautiful
Pure White Flower so what we're going to do with that we don't have a ton of that that is going to
go along the edges of the inside of the Box woods and then you're going to have the jazzberry within
that so you'll have the green of the box wood then the white of the snow drift and then the
interior will be the jazzberry that way everybody pops off of each other and looks fantastic so then
in the center bed that is kind of the v-shape that's going to be the supertunias that are
going to be in front of the summerific Holy Grail hibiscus remember we have three of those straight
line against the fence now just to give remember a little bit of perspective right the summerific
Holy Grail is going to have basically near black foliage with massive red flowers on it and they're
going to get to be like four to five feet wide and about three to four feet tall so nice and
wide so they're going to fill in up against the fence and just be stunning what we're going to
do is the brand new supertunia mini Vista Yellow so yellow is one of the three new introductions
um on the mini Vista line this year last year we trialed it and this year we are planting it
in Mass it is a beautiful nice petite little flower on it the mini Vistas do have a little
bit of a smaller flower but they make a great impact they're not as vigorous of a spreader
as your Vistas but still have a nice spread on them we've got a I mean just like a truckload
of these gorgeous things so we are going to fill in that interior with these mini Vista yellows
on the placement of them obviously with your Vistas you can spread them out a little bit
further because they are more vigorous and have more of a spread and then with your yellows if
you want full coverage then you're going to want to plant them together a little bit closer if
you want to see the individual amounts then of course obviously you can spread them apart when
we created the burn back in the fall we added just like truckloads of compost to this soil so we are
not amending the planting beds per se with a lot of compost right now what Jerry has already done
is gone through and laid down some biotone on top of the soil and this mulch remember is not mulch
per se as far as like a like a solid hardwood mulch it is a blend of I think it was what a 40
compost and then 60 percent aged pine bark finds so people will say oh you're planting directly in
the mulch well it's not the traditional mulch that you think of it's more of a compost blend so we're
going to use our power planter augers and we are going to just attack this we are expecting some
thunderstorms here in the next hour or so so we are going to try our best to get this done before
the rain comes we are entering into more of the summer weather here in North Carolina which means
you never know what's going to happen right you think it's going to be one thing and then five
minutes later it's another and then it's another so we are going to try to move with purpose so
that way we can get it done so if it does rain then the petunias will already be in the ground
and be very very happy so we're going to see what we can get done before the rains come if they come
first things first we've got to get all these beautiful plants out here and get them placed
all right my friends so today's project is complete and I am not gonna lie this was a
massive massive undertaking and it took four adults to do this in uh two and a half three
hours but we got all of the annuals in there and man it looks fantastic could not be happier with
it again it was as far as the planting goes it was very simple right we had two of the power
planter augers with the five inch drill bits on them and you had we were working in teams of two
one person is arguing the holes the next person is taking them out and popping them in the hole
so we kind of worked our way through there so it was really simple on that aspect it was just a
large number of plants to put into the ground but as far as the design goes very happy with it of
course we have the white petunias on the outside with the Jazz berries in the middle and then we
were not planning on putting white petunias in front of the mini Vista yellows but that
space was bigger than what we were thinking and we ran out of the mini Vista Yellow so
thankfully I had some mini Vista whites and so I was able to run up to the greenhouse
and fill in which actually worked out pretty kind of cool because then all the whites are connected
so it'll be a fun interesting design but having those mini Vista yellows in that bed and then
having the holy Grails behind them now right now of course the holy Grails are kind of Disappearing
because even though they are a nice size right now they're not of course a mature size and this berm
seems to kind of just swallow plants up whole so just imagine that those holy Grails are going to
be almost almost touching each other at mature size and at least up to the second rung of the
fence maybe even up a little bit higher with your summerifics the more water you give them and the
more sun the happier they are and the faster they grow so they're going to fill in nicely and then
of course though that foliage of the Holy Grail will look beautiful with the purple plum that
is behind it so all of those colors kind of tie in together but I'm glad that we put the yellows
there because it just brings a bit of brightness big red flowers from the Holy Grail then the
yellow and then of course the mini Vista whites and then the boxwoods are just fantastic right
gives those beds nice year after year after year structure they're going to grow they're going to
grow together we are going to keep them pretty trimmed so we want to have a nice defined kind
of hedge with those Sprinter box Woods it was just an absolute genius idea that Jerry had coming up
with this design could not be happier with it I really cannot wait to go sit on the front porch
so that we can see this from a distance and see how it all comes together but I was laying out the
jazzberry and the white petunias and we had two plant deliveries today so he was over there just
kind of managing that and when he came was coming back over I was like hold on to your socks and
he was like what and I was like because they're getting ready to get knocked off I absolutely love
it I think it looks great irrigation wise so Josh and Roman have gone to lunch they're going to come
back and begin the irrigation process of laying down the pipe in here we already have the bones in
so all they have to do is just connect to the pipe that is connected to the PVC in the ground connect
to that and then wind the irrigation through here so that's going to be a whole process that will
take a little bit of time once they get that done we'll probably come back and just do an overview
of what they've done give you an update on the plants maybe like in a week or so that way because
a lot of people ask like with irrigation how you lay it out how do you decide how much irrigation
to put down so forth and so on so that way we can come back and kind of give you an idea of
what works for us here in our North Carolina Zone 7B Garden could not be happier it's going to be
gorgeous so as always we hope you have found this a fun informational and inspirational thank you
for gardening with Creekside y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends