Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today is it is a very toasty humid day here in
North Carolina um and Jenny is already thinking and dreaming about fall I'm not going to lie I'm
not going to apologize for those folks who live in the south we welcome fall with open arms but it
seems to take its sweet time getting here so for those of you that don't live here it really can be
mid-October of October November before we get some consistently consistently cool weather so
today what i'm going to do is i'm going to channel that inner cool weather and i am going to plant
a new unique stone planter that i got with heat loving annuals i do have one perennial
so they're heat loving annuals that actually have fall color and will transition me all
the way into fall even though it'll be september early october the temperatures will still be high
the humidity will still be high this planter will have all of the fall fields and will get me in
to the fall mood so here we are standing i'm right underneath the arch of the rose and just to give
you an idea of where we are i have sweet alyssa here helping me today do some gardening chores if
you see her in the background that is her but what we have here is you can see all of my piles of
goodies this is the planter it is one of it's called the norwich planter and it comes in three
different sizes this is the large size but it fits perfectly right here on the edge well front
edge i would say of the bed you can see look at this gorgeous edgeworthia that is behind it
mama and i planted this um this spring and it's just glorious mama's like you're going to have
to move that thing i don't want to and then the ascot rainbow euphorbia that's going to give me
lots of fun fall color then we have the roccapuco i want to say that's the purple color anyway this
bed is just looking fantastic so that gives you an idea of where this norwich planter is going to go
and then of course the patio is just right there here i have all my fantastic supplies
with me okay so here we go let's run down through the plants that i am using and i literally
went to the nursery the garden center our creekside nursery and i scavenged i was like
what do we have that is heat loving but fall color so i picked up two of the purple fountain grasses
i went ahead and got two i'm going to plant them as one because they are in the grande containers
and i need to bulk this up as fast as i possibly can but look how like tall and they already have
the plumes on them so they are going to be really pretty so i'm going to plant two
but i'm going to plant it as one just like that bulk it up so that will be kind of my thriller in
the recipe we're going to go in reverse order here is my spiller the lemon coral sedum i mean we just
right we love this plant so much it is a perennial for us i thought it would be fun
spilling over the front edge i don't know if i need two or three i went ahead and grabbed
three then we have coleus because you got to have coleus in my opinion now these are really tall
and lanky but that's all right we're going to work with it i'll show you some tricks
this is wicked hot wicked hot is really fun because when it gets in this full sun
it is this glorious red if it stays a little bit more in the shade it turns a beautiful
orange so we'll see how this goes as far as what like what final color it turns into
i went ahead and grabbed four because i'm going to flank the grass with two on each side
and then for my filler my big well my only flower in here i've got some gallardia this is
arizona sun technically this is a perennial for us but it was just too pretty to pass up if i want to
put it in the ground later on i can but this is a fantastic plant it grows wild along the coastline
here in the southeast gorgeous color complete re-bloomer you can see it with the blooms what
they look like now and then this one has got tons of buds all over it so i will plant these two in
the center flanked by all the other beautiful colors but this is going to be just kind of a
i'm going to sweat doing this i got my sunglasses on my hat because we are in the full sun i tried
to beat the sun this morning didn't happen um so we're going to plant this get it nice and well
watered in i am going to use my same method of putting down my layer of compost first the bottom
one third of the container will be compost and then the top two thirds is going to be
fantastic potting soil and then i'll probably come back and top dress with the compost again
so i'm going to get everything set up and then we're going to get this sweet thing planted
all right my friends so i've got everything set up right here around me hopefully i will not have to
move uh while i get this planted so i did exactly what i told you i was gonna do i've got my bottom
third with compost and i've got the top two thirds with potting soil so i'm gonna work from the back
to the front and we're basically we are going to use that rough recipe of that filler spiller
thriller filler spiller that is always a fail-proof way to create a container now
let me just have a moment of realness here with you
y'all need to get out to your local garden centers and see what they have available
this purple fountain grass yes it is in a grande container yes it is absolutely root bound as soon
as i break up the roots and put it in a bigger container guess what's going to happen it's going
to go whoosh it is going to explode so if you understand how plants work or you understand how
what a plant is and how it grows then there is no need to be afraid of getting out there and buying
you know annual grasses or anything annual plants perennial plants maybe that you know are not
exactly in their prime right now like i guarantee you most garden centers have a really good deal
going on on their you know summer annuals because they want to get rid of them because if they
don't get rid of them and they don't get to your house then they're going to have an unfortunate
they're going to have an unfortunate end and they're not going to live to their best
potential in your garden so you need to go and get them now because we are talking about being here
in the beginning of august i'm going to even though we do have a big growing season left
i don't want to sit here and start with a little smaller container and watch it
you know take its time to fill in i want it to go ahead and really start living its best life
as soon as possible because you know me typically i am planting for like longevity
but in this case i'm going to pack it in there and that's a great little trick is to when the
plants are small and your growing window is short whether it's because of the time of year
or it's because of maybe you have an event coming up and you need it to look really
full fast then that's when you're going to put more plants in there i mean that's just
as simple as it goes the more time you have the more grace period that is there then the you know
the smaller the plants or the fewer plants you can put in there but i am sure just like creekside
there are lots of garden centers right now that are giving you great deals
on these plants so get out there take advantage of them and use those hot weather annuals
to take you into fall all right so purple fountain grass i planted basically at the back and as full
as i possibly like as close to each other as i possibly can next we're going to go ahead and use
the wicked hot coleus it has been pinched back a couple of times but we're going to go ahead and
once we get it in the pot then i'm going to pinch it some more um the cully is just like the grass
man once you break up those roots once you get it in a bigger container or in the landscape
they are going to go crazy so i'm gonna put one in the back corner back here i'm on the
other side of the grass and i am going to try to plant this um pretty balanced symmetrical because
i think that's what will be best in this space now if i were planting this in the spring
i would most definitely only use one fountain grass i would only use one coleus in this area
maybe even one coleus total i don't even know because these will get really really big
when they have a nice long growing season i've got lots of coleuses in landscapes and areas
that are really full and really happy so just keep that in mind for sure
so i'm gonna i've got two on this corner and put two on the other corner if you don't have
a hoary hoary you need to get a hoary horry tons of different tool manufacturers make them
you can use it for a gazillion different things in the garden i've had mine gosh since
the winner maybe um jerry's never had one and then i bought one for our folks at the nursery to have
and he got to using it the other weekend and he was like oh my word that thing's amazing you can
do all sorts of stuff with it and i was like i know this is why i love it so get a hoary horry
again just google search hori hori i got the one for the workers off of amazon and um just to find
one that has the best reviews and then just go for it all right so we're getting this in here
we're gonna found some pots so if you hear a commotion that's just brenna and the
pots you know how much she loves them now what you're going to want to do with your coleus is
we want to go ahead and pinch it back so wherever you have two leaves just take out the top and that
will help it get nice and thick and full and it will actually help the plant grow a little bit
more so right now it's going to look you know not as optimal and you can prune as much or as little
as you want on the coleus and if you've got branches underneath that really need to be
taken out just take them all the way back it's okay it's not a problem so it's a very forgiving
plant it loves to be pruned like this so just go in there the more you can prune it i can't find
out there we go the thicker and the fuller it gets so we're giving everybody a little haircut
taking off the ones that might be in the way and then we'll get the other guys planted
so i brought two gallardia i think i only have room for one because of my other plants and i
think that'll be just perfectly fine for this season for sure so i'm just digging in my hole
getting my gallardia out
it needs a little root breaking up as well
all right since i only used one gallardia i think i'm only use
two co um lemon corals one on each corner and then we're done so the maintenance on this will
only be of course we're going to get it really well watered in as soon as i'm done here because
it's hotter than i don't know what it is sticky it's a beautiful clear blue sky but man
the humidity is cranking today don't know if the video shows it but jenny is glistening everywhere
so lemon coral right here and lemon coral is so fun because it will actually be a perennial for us
but it's going to fill these corners in and spill over if you've never done lemon coral before
it's one that i really encourage people to do because it is just so easy and low maintenance
but oh my gosh it is a rock star performer for sure this plant proves that you don't have
to have along with the coleus and the grass you don't have to have massive flower power
to be a fantastic addition to the garden get that in there
all right all right so what i'm going to do is it's all done i'm loving it i'm going to
get everything cleaned up get the hose and then we'll meet back here in just a minute
all right my friends the project is complete i have
found shade once again underneath the rose arch here but you can see the container behind me
it just looks fantastic so let's just give you kind of a whole big picture right so we're going
to come out of the roads right i'm walking like towards the driveway so we're going to
flip around here and there's miss b she's a smart girl taking a little refuge there that you can go
ahead and see the container it is right there you will be able to see it from all angles but as you
come through the pathway and walk around it is right there i did go ahead and pull up a couple
of the limbs off the red bug tree just to help get a little bit more sun in there that is the
one thing i do have to do with the red bud is that um as these branches they'll start to droop
down and it gets too much shade so every once in a while i have to kind of come in there and kind of
thin out a couple of the branches but i'm really pleased with how this norwich planter turned out
clearly it is not living you know looking its absolute best right now give me about two
weeks and it will be dramatically different full it is going to be a gorgeous container
that can handle the heat the humidity everything that august in north carolina can
throw at it go into september october even the beginning of november and just
continue to give me lots of fall color as we transition into one of my absolute most
favorite months seasons of the year i can't even talk now fall is not a month fall is a season
jimmy's going to go get us some water we're going to cool off the projects for today are
complete so get out there go to your local garden center find some of those hot weather plants that
give you fall color get them planted now and you will be so incredibly grateful come september and
october when you've got beautiful fall inspired color already in your garden that is mature
as always thanks so much for growing with creekside we'll see in the next video bye friends
you