hello friends it is Jenny welcome to gardening with creekside it is our
weekly nursery update we are down here on the shrub lot we have got lots of
gorgeous blooming shrubs to show you we've got aqua pots all sorts of fun
things but I need to tell you you need to make sure that you pay attention and
you watch this video all the way through because at the end I have some really
important information for you about our hours of operation so watch to the very
end I promise it'll be fun and entertaining because do you know why
Jerry is not behind the camera today it is the super fun everybody loves her
Christine is with us today so never know what's gonna happen there she is
alright this beauty that I have before me this is a blue chiffon Rose of Sharon
I will try to stay very still huh look we have a friend on roses of Sharon if
you are not familiar with them they are a great shrub eight to ten feet tall
three to four feet wide so there they're gonna be more vertical than horizontal
they are fantastic bloomers gorgeous so this is the blue chiffon just a really
really sweet sweet bloom so it also comes and look at this gorgeous nasir we
have one look at this sweet white bud she's about to bloom a bit tomorrow
she'll be open so it also comes in white and it comes in magenta which is a
bright hot pink color roses of Sharon are deciduous so in the wintertime they
will drop their leaves but they are so worth it they bloom on new growth so you
can trim them back if you need to to maintain that space just a great shrub
hydrangea season is almost here I mean like well it is here it has begun this
is the one the only should show you this to get you a size perspective here
incredible proven winners incredible this is the improved version of the
classic Annabelle look look at these massive blooms look at this they're huge
they're gone just Incredibles like I said are the
improved version of an Annabelle Annabelle's for those classic white mop
head hydrangeas the only kind of downside with the Annabelle was that
they did not have strong stems when we would get a lot of rain they flop over
Incrediball has really strong stems look at this little skinny stem can help hold
this massive bloom up they do like the Sun so this is not a shade hydrangea
this is a Sun hydrangea so you need at least four to six hours I would say on
the six-hour end to get your really pretty blooms they bloom on new growth
meaning that you can trim them in the late winter to put them at the shape
that you want and you get blooms every single year so we've got lots of
Incredibles we also have let's see oh let me show you this Christina now we're
talking about this this is the beyond midnight oh I'm sorry I disturbed Mr
bumble bee so beyond midnight Bluebeard it is a
fantastic shrub if you are looking to attract pollinators and looking for some
great summer blue color in your garden it will get to be about two to two and a
half feet tall and wide just a great low maintenance easy smells fantastic shrub
love this thing just I just can't talk enough about it I will let mr. bumble
bee come back and have his way on this beauty the next one Oh pearl glam
beautyberry now I did not know Beauty berries I just
they're new to me in the last couple of years my mama and I were we were
actually thinking Biltmore walking around the gardens and I was like mama
what is that plant and she was like oh that's the deity berry Beauty berries
well let me tell you so this is pearl glam from proven winners do you see
those little beautiful little balls on the shrub well that's what a beauty
berry does if you can see Christy know what she's great with this camera but
they're just starting to form their little buds these little buds
we'll then open up to really sweet beautiful white blooms once they're done
blooming then that's where the berries form and then in the fall you get these
bright purple berries on the plant birds love to have them to eat them this plant
will get four to five feet tall and wide and it's hard even zones five to eight
it does like the Sun it is deciduous so if you are looking for some height and
some texture and some fall interest then this is a great one to add to your
garden let's go this way let's walk let's walk and talk
first we're going to hit up here Jackson and I moved all of these hibiscus down
here for you to come shop these are perennial hibiscus this is part of
proven winners some errific hibiscus line if you are not familiar with a
perennial hibiscus it is everything we love about the tropical hibiscus except
it comes back year after year it is glorious this particular one I love this
name is perfect storm look at that bloom so sweet white and
pink on it this one will get about 36 inches tall
there is berry awesome who is a nice pink and then all the way down there on
the end you can tell by the dark foliage is Holy Grail Holy Grail nice dark dark
foliage but big huge red blooms absolutely gorgeous son you need Sun so
these are about to explode with blooms mine in the yard just today I was
looking at them they are full and they are covered in buds so pretty soon we're
gonna have beautiful flowers that I can share with you again low maintenance
easy come get them now we're gonna come oh gosh there's so many Christine I
don't know but she's ready to go we're gonna go this way talking about
butterfly bushes now the butterfly bushes are in all of their glory
me right now this is oh we have a honeybee making him
Christine I'll hunt him down she is great with this camera so there's a
little honeybee on the puckster amethyst so this is amethyst has a really light
light purple bloom on it then there's also the puckster blue which is not
quite and bloom yet this is the blue chip Junior so this could will give you
the idea of what the pokéstar blue looks like but I love these guys because they
are petite butterfly bushes like a 2 by 2 posters are 2 by 2 so they do great in
small spaces you can even put them in containers and speaking of containers
guess where we're gonna go I'll go this way that way on the way up we can hit
miss Molly good golly Miss Molly I love this
butterfly bush and then I'm gonna let Christine come around because there is
this massive bumble bee on my side of Miss Molly there's honey bees all over
them you know that we have the we're the host family for the honey bees and the
honey bees have definitely found the nursery it's so fun to watch them on the
plants because we know that those are our honey bees Creekside has bees
butterfly bushes though love the full Sun they will miss Molly will get to be
about 4 to 5 feet tall and wide obviously they are major pollinator
attractors butterflies of course it is a butterfly bush after all love them easy
they make great cut flowers throw them in a little vase like with your cottage
garden collection of blooms but we were talking about containers so you're
really quick the aqua pots that we have so last week we got four pallets of aqua
pots and basically we sold three pallets of aqua pots in about six hours
it was nuts here so these are the ones that we have left if there's a green
tape on them they're already sold this is techno white this is a fantastic
gorgeous classic white but it has some vertical ridges in it if you don't know
what an aqua pot is they are self watering containers just an absolute
genius idea the highest quality of cement glazed ceramic pottery these are
not cheap pots they are gorgeous then we have the smooth blue which is my I think
right now it's my favorite because I am a cobalt blue lover and this is that
classic color and this is a great example because it shows you all four
sizes that these aqua pots come in there are the tall vase the smaller vase the
big fat and squatty and the small fat and squatty those are not technical
terms those are judy terms and then you have the smooth white great easy your
plants will love it you water them about once every week once every two weeks
depending on the weather whether it's Sun or shade in the winter time you do
have to kind of empty them and turn them upside down but the Aqua pots are
fantastic creation from Michael Carr who is the the artist who creates the pots
and then Jack Barnwell who is the mastermind behind the whole idea of the
self watering containers we have them and it is on the first-come first-served
basis because this will be all that we get until the fall so if you're
interested in an aqua pot you need to come see us ASAP to come get one now
we're gonna walk over here you can tell that we're starting to get ready for
summertime the annuals are basically gone we had somebody come all the way
from Virginia looking for supertunias and it was kind of sad because all the
supertunias are gone and have been gone so the supertunias that were for sale
may be gone but the supertunias in these aqua pots are doing great do you
remember that video that i did talk about what an aqua pot is and
and planting one up paradise is loving life this pot was planted about a week
before this one so you can kind of tell the size difference that just a week
makes but other than that it's the exact same growing conditions so those
beauties are doing well let's come right here okay
butterfly weed the heat and the summertime are upon us so if you are
looking to attract butterflies and support the monarch butterfly population
then you need to come and you need to get some butterfly weed this is full Sun
deer resistant so if it's a perennial it comes back every single year the
Monarchs do their whole lifecycle on this so come get some butterfly weed
gorgeous hot orange blooms on it very attractive it's only 18 to 24 inches
tall you're in space I'm about 18 inches apart it is a great perennial plant the
butterflies will thank you for it so those are the plants to help with all of
our good bugs lemongrass if you have mosquitoes and you are looking to have a
natural repellent to get rid of your mosquitoes we have got lemongrass
lemongrass is a fantastic it will be an annual it's not a perennial because it
loves it hot it's a great just a regular it looks like a regular green grass but
it gets big especially if you put it in the landscape and making it like 4 feet
tall loves the water loves the Sun very versatile makes a great addition to your
garden and it helps repel mosquitoes naturally so comment get some lemongrass
and then a couple more that I'm going to show you as far as perennials go we have
got the black-eyed Susans this whole table right in here are great gorgeous
this is gold trim that we're looking at right now you can tell it's gold trim
because it has the big huge fat leaf black-eyed Susans they do love the Sun
they are a late season bloomer so when things starting
to look sad in the garden and it's hot and it's just tired looking this is when
these beauties come into play and they do amazing they'll natural eyes I mean
they spread but they're not invasive so these are great we also have some candy
corn spiraea and gallon sized containers candy corn
normally we always sell this as a three gallon but it's really hard to get right
now so when we were able to get them in Lund gallons we grabbed them up we also
had lemon zest lemon zest is a beautiful landscape rose from pre winters has a
really delicate perfectly yellow bloom on it that smells divine so it smells
like a rose should smell but these are wider than they are tall they are full
Sun lemon zest it's an O so easy part of their line two to three feet tall and
wide continuous bloomer we've got the knockout roses
we've got drift roses we have all sorts of things so important information as
far as the nursery goes we will be open this weekend normal hours Thursday and
Friday 9:00 to 5:00 Saturday 9:00 to 3:30 and then guys we're gonna take two
weeks off it has been quite an interesting season for everybody we have
been going nonstop since January because that's when our plugs arrived we started
putting up then of course March hit season began it's just been crazy so
we're going to take the next two weekends off so that will be the weekend
of like the toilet Saturdays like the 20th and the 27th we will be closed that
during that time we're just going to take some time to relax as a family to
unwind get some projects done around the nursery and the house that desperately
need to be done but we're going to take some time off
we'll be back open the next weekend is July the 4th we're gonna
works be here but it is July 4th but we'll be up in that Thursday and Friday
so you can come see us then but I do know that some people do travel to see
us and I want you to know that we will be closed that weekend of the 20th and
the 27th then we'll come back open we'll put this all over social media so that
you don't travel too far for nothing because we don't want to get you
disappointed but I know that you will understand that we as a family just need
to take some time for ourselves to recover rest and come back ready to
serve you with happy hearts and cheerful smiles cuz right now we're tired we're
exhausted and I know you understand that and we appreciate you we appreciate
everything that you have done for our family for our business how you have
supported us and encouraged us your words of encouragement have just been
the source that we need to keep going because we're tires so thank you so much
for all of your love and support with all that being said we look forward to
seeing you this weekend because we are open regular hours have a great day guys
and we'll see you soon bye