Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside and this week's Nursery Tour we have got some
fantastic things to share with you here we are I mean like October is just you know marching on and
it is just fantastic it is a nice and brisky here this morning I can actually see Jerry's
breath as he is behind the camera so here we are North Carolina Zone at 7B just west of Charlotte
here in the Piedmont and um if all has arrived the colors of the trees are starting to change
and the temperature is changing as well this is prime time to be Landscaping in your yard here in
the Southeast this is a great time to get those perennials trees and shrubs into your landscape
because they will have plenty of time to get well adjusted before the heat Hits come next
spring and summer we like planting during this time because it is not as a stressful time on
the plants as say when you're planting in Spring going into summer right with all the Heat and the
humidity now that we have cooler temperatures hopefully we'll start to get a little bit more
consistent rain as the winter comes on and that's great time for roots to grow because if you have
strong healthy Roots you have a strong healthy plant so we're going to walk through remember
this is just our weekly nursery tours are we're showing you what is available here at the nursery
what is looking good some ideas that you might want to incorporate into your garden now I am
standing here beside the Pearl Glam beauty berry bush we love this plant it is a native plant and
you can see why it is called a beauty Berry because this is the time of year where they're
spring flowers have now turned into these gorgeous really vibrant purple berries and you'll notice
maybe as you know these are more vibrant down here and as you work your way up the stem
they're not quite as colorful that's because the Pearl Glam Blooms from the base all the way up so
the older berries are showing more color faster these will Bloom on New Growth so you can prune
it every late winter going into spring like I said where the where the berries are we're
little white flowers that pollinators love and I will tell you too is that they have gorgeous
fall color nice big shape to them I want to say they're like a four by four something like that
and any of these plants that we're talking about if you want to you know go to if it's a proven
winners you can go to provenwinners.com and type in the name and it will give you all the specs
this is just kind of an overview of just showing you hey you might want to check this plant out
so gorgeous fall color on the Pearl glams love these and so great option for you also I forgot
to mention when we first started Jerry told me to tell you that we have just gone through and
fertilized all of these shrubs because coming out of Summer and then we got all of that rain from
Hurricane in when they're you have plants in the containers right that all that water it leeches
out the good nutrients so we have gone through and fertilized all of these shrubs if you notice
that maybe some of your perennials and shrubs and trees at your house maybe need a little extra shot
of something the fall is a great time that you can apply fertilizer but at a half dose when in doubt
plant tone plant tone is like the what I call like the Swiss army knife you can use that on
anything so just look on the bag it will tell you the rates and do a half dose for that in the fall
then come you're coming out of winter going into spring then you can do a full dose because
that's when they're going to hit their main growing period so we've got the beautiful pearl
glams then we have got the Fantastic uh fairy Trail bride Now fairy Trail bride is the first
um trailing weeping whatever you want to call it hydrangea this is more like a lace cap it
is a beautiful creamy white and this is for our Southern regions these are going to be in zones I
want to say seven to nine on this got six to nine so zones six to nine it will be a four by four
and it blooms on both new growth and old growth so you want to avoid pruning this
as much as possible but it is one of those rare hydrangeas that is for the more warmer climates
it will do great in a large container it'd be quite a statement piece in your garden so
fairy Trail bride is available as is the Gatsby gal so Gatsby gal is a fantastic
Oak Leaf hydrangea that can actually do more sun here in the South we think typically of the oak
leaf hydrangeas as being shade plants Gatsby gal is going to be more sun tolerant mine is actually
in Full full sun and she is doing really well we love the oak leaves because you can tell how they
got their name because they had these beautiful leaves in the shape of an oak tree like the oak
leaves they have beautiful creamy white more kind of cone-shaped panicle blooms on it that
will age to a red great color in the fall as soon as we start to get more consistent cooler
temperatures at night then these guys are going to turn that burgundy color great accent for the fall
and these are Hardy in zones the tags are wet this morning so it's kind of hard to open them
um five to nine it does say sun to part shade and they're going to be five to six feet tall
and wide which is going to be a great size for the garden because if you think traditional oak
leaves like they can be massive like right 10 to 15 feet tall and wide mama has one that is
just an oldie and she is huge this is probably much more manageable for your garden at that
five to six foot tall and wide speaking of great fall color candy corn spirea this is got its name
because it has kind of those three colors on the plant your new growth is kind of a reddish orange
and as it develops you're going to have this kind of an ombre effect that it will come down to this
nice bright green spireas are wonderful again because they love the sun they're not going to
get massive they stay nice and petite and then in the spring they do beautiful blooms on them
it's a great um plant to add to your landscape and then when you pair it with like loropetalum
right so here we have I want to say this is yeah jazz hands bold for improving Winters so nice dark
burgundy evergreen shrub that's going to get some nice size to it you put the candy corn in front of
it and then you can even incorporate the Sprinter boxwoods so you've got lots of good Evergreen pops
of color this is a great combo to put what we call as Foundation plantings meaning that you
can put it right around the foundation of your house so this would be something good that could
go in the front of your house I have to show you this this is the Perfecto Mundo uh no it's
not it is blue-a-thon sorry Proven Winners has two different lines of azaleas this is
bloomathon double pink and you can see that she is in full bloom right now these are the re-blooming
hydrangeas hydrangeas azaleas I got hydrangeas on my brain um so the re-blooming Azalea they'll
do of course beautiful blooms in the spring then again in the summer and now here in the fall these
are going to be sun to part shade they are going to be three and a half to four and a half feet
tall and about three to four wide so they're going to have some good height to them right nice and
good presents another great foundation planting if you wanted to incorporate be beautiful with those
lower petalums lower petalums in the back the bloomathons in the front gorgeous color and Hardy
in zones 6B to nine azaleas of course are iconic here in the South we do love our azaleas for sure
um so we're going to make our way down this way and show you oh if you saw our uh Garden Tour
over at Spring Meadow they had the Temple of Bloom and we have got some fantastic ones here for you
I had pulled one of these for me when they first arrived cannot wait to incorporate it into the
garden but this is a nice size shrub tree so the Temple of Bloom is going to be a great alternative
to a crepe myrtle it because it has that multi-trunk Havoc to it is not a single stem tree
and it does a beautiful white flowers on it that turn to a nice burgundy red it is just a really
nice fun plant to add you can see it's starting to color up here for um the fall so this is a great
be a great specimen piece right so if you don't want to do a crepe myrtle the Temple of Bloom
would be a great one to add and then of course we have from Southern Living this is the Stellar
Magnolia Stella Ruby Magnolia as a banana shrub so this is a really fun plant right here because let
me show you the tag I know y'all love tags um when it blooms the flowers smell like ripe bananas it
is the craziest thing I have ever seen in my life but this is a beautiful Evergreen it's not going
to be that traditional Magnolia that we think of but it is a great plant that is going to be full
sun to part shade 10 to 15 tall six to eight wide party in zones seven to nine uh let's see
roses also we've had people ask about um muley grasses so muley grasses are a wonderful hot
weather perennial grass that bloom in the late summer into fall so they're right now right so
this is kind of what I call like the cotton candy plumes on it you will see these a lot in full sun
even along like highways because these things love to be neglected they do not like to be fussed over
they don't need a lot of water but when they have their plumes going it is absolutely stunning it
comes in pink and it comes in white these are three gallons and these are all pink or white
these are white this is what I thought so I can see the first little plume down here starting
but if you I think you know what I'm talking about those gorgeous plumes and this is the
White Version now we have got the new roses from proven winners this is the reminiscent Crema let
me show the tag for them so reminiscent Crema is a beautiful creamy white gorgeous traditional
um shrub that you think of four rows is heavy you just it got water this morning so you can
see that this bud is opening up it is just like its name says a creamy white it's not
a pure white it's kind of the uh French vanilla shall we say or just that nice beautiful cream
nice traditional Bloom that we think of but this will be a great option if you want to add roses to
your yard so we have the crema we have of course the the at last that we've had for a long time
um but these are going to be Hardy in zones four to nine and they're going to be about
three three feet tall by two feet wide so lots of great options for you on the Roses
we've got the Roses we've got um we're we've got the rise up series we've got the at last
um there's a we haven't brought all of them down um but like this is the this is the at last
beautiful kind of that gorgeous color to it that has a nice sweet smell we'll love these and again
great easy if you're just getting into roses and you want to try those then these are a
great option to get you started into roses now it's brisky this morning to give you an update
we have got mum's Galore we've got them in all stages of blooms so we would love for you to come
by and grab some we have them because remember it's all about the genetics with the mums so
you have some mums that bloom early super early then mid and you have late so we have a little
bit of everything here at the nursery so that you can get whatever your needs are if you are
planning for long term you're thinking about like Thanksgiving or you know early November that kind
of thing you're going to want to get moms that are nice and tight so if you can see over here dear
these are really nice tight buds really small right now the mom is as big as it's going to
get so you're not going to see any new growth as far as like size it's just that your flowers are
going to open up this is what we call like cracking they're showing some color this is
actually a white one it starts out a little soft buttery yellow and as it matures it will turn a
pure white so we have different stages and then inside as soon as we come around the corner you
will see we have some that are in beautiful full color so if you have an event you're having some
friends over you're having I don't know a birthday party you're having some sort of event within the
next you know couple of weeks then maybe you want to go ahead and get ones that are nice and full
and are showing all of their gorgeous colors because it makes a nice big huge statement
with these all of our moms are in the 10 inch terracotta pot and we do this on purpose when
we first started growing moms I really pushed Jerry I said I really want to do the Terracotta
that way you know if you're like me I'm I'm tired by the end of the summer and I don't want to have
to repot my mom so I literally take these and put these on my front porch and you have a nice little
terracotta pot all of our mums are 15 you can't beat this price for these size mums so as long
as the Flies last they are 15 so come get them and we have them in the oranges and the yellows
and the purples and the Reds and the and the pinks and everything we have them in all sorts of colors
we do still have pansies and violas we are actually making a run as we speak Josh has gone
to grab another Trailer Load of pansies violas and the Ms America kale mustard so if you are
coming to the nursery and you want to have that Ms America of course that's that gorgeous deep
um vibrant kind of burgundy almost a black upright mustard we will have those should be here by
lunchtime today and today is Thursday so we will have plenty of you for you on Friday and Saturday
of course the pansies and then also don't forget about this the perfect time to start planting you
know your perennials adding in perennials to your garden I have been planting shrubs Galore the past
couple of days so we're adding those in if you want to look at adding in your perennials like
this is a great one people ask you know what would be a wonderful flowering perennial for
the sun we've got the amazing daisies and this is Daisy May Daisy May is that classic white Shasta
Daisy and look at that plant that is a very happy healthy plant that will you put it in the ground
right now and they will do just take off and get established and do wonderful hearty and zones five
to nine so very adaptable the one thing I have found with the daisies is they do not like to have
consistent wet feet they will rot so you want to have well-draining soil and they intend to be once
they're established a little bit more drought tolerant so these are certainly great options
for sure um we have got oh my gosh cone flowers and y'all have gone nuts as we thought you would
um so excited about the different coneflowers that are coming out echinacea from proven Winters we
will have those four in like early summer so we do not have those available yet they're not have been
released so that's about like the um the butter pecan the Raspberry Beret the uh oh shoot there
was two other ones and the names just went out of my head but we've talked about those before
but what we do have is a lot of the sombrero Series so like this is the Granada gold these
are the ones that I have in the landscape in the backyard and y'all they are performing
their heads off they are stunning so it comes in all sorts of different so we've got the Granada
gold we've got the improved yellow we've got the orange all sorts of good colors those are great
for fall interest because like I said they start blooming in late summer and going in to the fall
right now and they are very very happy and they like it dry and they like it hot and they like
to be neglected I mean what else can you ask for was there anything else we wanted to talk about
I think that's about it of course we are here to help you in any way you can you know that we can
so come see us we are open on Wednesdays through Saturdays 9 A.M to 2 p.m and our last closing date
for the season will be Saturday November the 19th that is this Saturday right before Thanksgiving
No Frets my pet as far as videos you know that we have tons of content coming to you so just because
the retail portion of the nursery is going to be closed videos are still coming out just as
they always have been so we're going to keep on we got we've got projects that we haven't even
talked to you about yet that we are going to be I'm so excited I'm like chomping at the bit to get
started on some of these so just know that we've got plenty of content plenty of things to share
with you but if you want to come see us Wednesdays through Saturdays 9 A.M to 2 p.m um yeah we
look forward to seeing you as always thanks so much for gardening with Creekside y'all have a
fantastic day get outside and enjoy this beautiful beautiful weather we will see you soon bye friends