hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and we are back here in the perennial
house gonna do another little update on how all these sweet little perennials are doing
if you remember we were here i guess like two weeks ago when we first introduced you
to the kickoff of the 2021 nursery tours so we're back in this space
and we have added you will notice over my shoulder we have a couple of more
pots in here again earlier we've talked about how the perennials come to us from walters gardens and
we pot them up so forth and so on so we're here to give you a little update on how everybody is doing
before we go into actual plants i want to talk to you too about perennials so remember when
you're buying a perennial your main investment shall we say is in your root system maybe not
the foliage that you see up top because if you look at some of these plants they just look like
you know pots of soil and there's no active foliage in them on them yet so i have right
here this is proven winners lavender this is the sweet romance lavender that so many people
love because it's just a great plant and if you look at just the plant itself right now you
know it's just a little kind of a teenager size plant i would say but i thought this was really
important so there's not a whole lot of foliage up top because jerry has not really been pushing
the heat in this greenhouse i mean right now it's it's comfortable but it's not i would not say it's
warm at all but not a lot of growth up here but there is i let jerry zoom in on that do you see
those little roots sticking out from the bottom of the pot that's a sign of a really happy perennial
in the winter fall winter early early spring that's what's happening to your perennials your
trees and your shrubs you don't see the top growth their roots are growing so that's why here in the
south when we have such hot hot humid summers we say that the best time to plant your perennials
trees and shrubs is in the fall through the winter because that's when your roots are growing
if you have a really healthy root system then you're going to have a really pretty plant up top
so i just thought that was an interesting note to say and also obviously we have the lavender for
sale going through here jerry just potted these up when we did that video about the perennials
so i wanted to show you i mean look at this so the lavender of course lavender loves it hot
right this is the color spires crystal blue salvia and again i show the tags
remember if you need more information go to provenwinners.com they'll tell
you everything you need to know this is hardy and zones three through eight so there you go
but look already lots of great foliage clearly since this is a perennial in zones three to eight
it can handle cold climates really well so it probably loves this i don't know what would you
say it's 50 degrees in here it's about 50 degrees in here and so it's very happy so it's put on all
this new growth ever since just right about a week ago that jerry was potting these up so the crystal
um blue i love it because it's that obviously a really clear blue icy blue be great it's going to
be like an 18 to 20 inches tall of course that pollinators love salvia so that's a great one
then of course i was going to show you this where did it go oh here it is we love the coreopsis
this is uptick golden bronze and coreopsis is a great one but you see already we've got a little
bud on there coreopsis is great because it's just a fantastic perennial a no fuss really super easy
beautiful blooms on it's a very kind of like a little a small daisy like bloom on um like i said
low maintenance zones five to nine very versatile i will trim mine back i have it in the ground in
several spots i trim it back and it just flushes and it's just a continuous bloomer you don't have
to deadhead it it's just a great one obviously that this one is a full sun but i thought that
was fun to show you because it has a little bloom on it and then i alluded to this plant
when we were talking about those perennials coming this is let me clean off the tag for you this is
ascot rainbow and this is one of my all-time favorite foliage perennials it'll do a flower
but it's kind of an interesting flower you really get it for its foliage and right now
you're looking at it and you're going well that's just one little tiny little stick but what it does
is it as it grows it'll send up multiple of these shoots so it's this really full plant with this
gorgeous color in your garden and it's super soft so to touch it it's almost reminiscent of like a
lamb's ears not quite as fuzzy as a lamb's ear and then it has this really unique earthy smell
i love it i'm going to put it kind of in a in a swatch and it's just it's gorgeous and it is
hearty in zones five to nine so again extremely extremely versatile and you can just do all sorts
of fun stuff with it but it gets to be about 20 inches tall so it'll bring some height to your
garden so if you want to put it in the middle of your bed it's a great one and then i want to say
it's full yeah sun to part shade so again very very versatile but ascot rainbow is just a great
perennial and then look at these these were the beasts these were the beautiful beasts
that jerry was potting up jenny's doing gardening yoga over here these are those baptisia
so you get a good look at the sign and then i'm gonna rotate look at that
look how much it's already starting to pop up so this is vanilla cream
proven winners has some amazing baptisia if you're not familiar with baptism they're one of the
earliest spring bloomers in your garden they do this gorgeous like vase like habit on them
extremely versatile easy low maintenance this one's gonna be hardy in zones four to nine i
mean really and then it has those gorgeous colors on it gives you some height i keep my i have the
lemon meringue one it's a beautiful yellow it's kind of towards my back and my cottage garden but
this one is pastel yellow buds and then they'll turn like a creamy white so extremely pretty
and it'll be like three feet tall so when you're already buying a root system that's this massive
imagine what it's going to be like once it starts really going jerry says to turn pivot there we go
and there's tons of baptisias i know we have talked about this a couple of times and it's been
on social media a bit here lately about us doing beginning online ordering and shipping plants
we are working feverishly to get all that done of course we'll do the annuals we will do perennials
those kinds of things so once that system is up and ready to go you can order to your heart's
content but there's tons of things look at these daylilies we've talked about daylilies before
look all this green foliage in a week this is what's happened that it had just a little bit
of of green when we first planted them up but that's why we love day ilies because they're so
extremely easy zones three to nine this particular one is the raspberry eclipse i mean gorgeous color
look at that love that of course daylilies love the full sun so that's a great one um let's see
i'll give you an update on some of the ones that have been we potted up in the fall end of the
summer and they have been kind of sitting in here some of them take a little bit longer than others
again because some are really hot loving plants hot weather loving plants like your echinacea
so they're just still kind of hanging out but if you will notice already the dianthus
is really starting to green up once we jerry socks the heat to them they will green up this whole
container will be full of foliage and they'll have the gorgeous blooms on them this one is paint the
town magenta we love the whole paint the town series nice and low it's a great ground cover
those gorgeous kind of hot pink blooms again it's hardy in zones four to nine really
low-key easy maintenance i there's i call them a semi-evergreen because even in our cottage garden
right now you can see where the plants are they don't look fantastic but you can see them so they
don't completely disappear but they're an early bloomer in the spring and they just smell so good
so sweet so sweet now what i think we're going to do is because jerry and the crew finished up
potting all the other bare roots up at the production greenhouses so we are going to go head
up there and see what fantastic plants are there all righty folks we are up here at the existing
greenhouse the production greenhouse you can see probably behind me that this is also kind of the
staging construction staging spot for the new greenhouse that's right behind us i wanted to
these obviously have not been potted up these are some heucheras these are proven winners but
i wanted to show you some one we're talking about such a nice big massive root system i mean look at
that you're not getting a little tea tiny plant but also to show you the difference these are
both considered kind of a purple heuchera this one is the silver gumdrop so it does have that great
silvery sheen to it and then this one is wild berry and wild berry when you put them together
you can see how much more purple this one is they both are just such great perennials they are
evergreen they're mostly grown for their foliage they will bloom but it's mostly as a foliage plant
and they're both going to be now the wild berry the more purple one it can be sun or shade where
the silver gumdrop is going to be more of a shade perennial but these do great at the front
of your bed they do great in pots and containers i've used heucheras in like mixed containers for
years and they do great so they just give you lots of neat different texture and color in your garden
and in your containers now come on down here and then this is where we have those other perennials
that we were talking about we were talking about what was over here and jerry's like
baptisia there's so much baptisia we have tons of baptisia but remember i was telling you about the
baptisia that i have in my cottage garden well this is it it's the lemon meringue it's one of
my favorite plants especially because it's i think a spring bloomer and we're just all craving that
gorgeous color in the spring any kind of color in the spring and this lemon meringue is just a pure
yellow creamy yellow i mean just like a lemon meringue pie and they just have these stalks and
every year your base gets bigger and bigger they don't send out runners they don't send out seeds
their base just gets bigger and it's just more of flowers every year they are fantastic
brand new again these were just potted up like a day ago this is proven winner's new firefly
sunshine this is a yarrow and again when we flip around here look how much it's already
filling up this pot so you're going to get a great plant with a really nice established root system
right there and it's going to be one of the best ones for holding its color
so this is new bright yellow flowers with a dark gray green foliage i mean it's perfect
and in fact a little side note i don't know if y'all keep up with this but the pantone
colors of the year you know every year they come out this is gonna be like the colors
of the year is gonna be blah blah blah well this one actually fits in perfect because
it's like illuminating yellow and then a gray now not that this has a gray foliage i mean it's a
green gray but if you by any chance are following the pantone colors of the year and would like to
add something to your garden collection well then this would be the perfect plant to do it
it just kind of hit me we were talking about this morning i was on a zoom call with some pw people
and anyway it's just fun now another great salvia we've done this one for a couple of years is the
indiglo girl again this is a great perennial salvia with just deep deep colored like a purple
bloom on it extremely nice 20 to 22 inches tall it's gonna be hardy in zones three to
eight so again very cold tolerant and salvias are naturally deer resistant because they're in that
kind of the mint family so when deer don't like things that are either rough on their tongue or
have like a smell to them so salvias are a great one to be deer resistant rabbit resistant if you
have that issue in your yard now blueberry sundae there's no point me bringing up the pot because
you know what a bare root baptisia looks by now blueberry sundae again just that um gorgeous
vibrant indigo blue color on it so if you're looking to add some blue to your garden this one
would be a great one remember those baptisias are right at three feet tall then we've got daylilies
now this is a new one for us this is tiger swirl this is part of the rainbow rhythm series
from proven winners they have some of the best day lilies on the market some of the best that
i've ever grown they just have massive huge blooms on them and they last for a long time
like they constantly not a day lily the flower itself only lasts for a day but as far as the
continuous blooms they just keep coming and coming for weeks and weeks and weeks on end
so this the blooms on this one are going to be six and a half inches wide so just massive make a huge
impact in your garden and just a gorgeous color on that really like that tiger swirl
then let's see what do we have down here i don't even know we have oh the denim and lace so this is
what the denim and lace looks like when it comes to us i mean it just sticks right no foliage
just some sticks and of course denim and lace is a russian sage a great gorgeous silvery green
foliage on it with those really pretty purple blue flowers we do have some from the other season that
are over here just great aromatic really nice they have a nice minty smell to them just the foliage
really great love the sun love dry conditions really low maintenance on that so let's come
down here and check jenny's you know touch and die section if you remember we talked about that um
the other day i'm trying to see if we have some new oh we do look at this i haven't been up here
this week so this is the veronica and look at that all this new foliage on it this is purple leia
i would say purple leo um so this is going to be a great one so it is happy and showing
lots of good color then the daisies are doing well they're nice and perky look at that
so remember this is the new one this is the spun silk now these are going to be introduced in 2022.
walters gardens sent us these trial plants just to test out to see how they do in our garden
so we can give them some feedback get a little experience growing them so these are not going to
be for sale this year so the touch and die corner is um these are not for sale you're going to have
to wait at least a year for those guys so those are doing well the um oh oh look we have phlox
the phlox is emerging so this is um the black back light i want to say black light but it's not
back light phlox of course that gorgeous pure white bloom on it but look we have growth
we have signs of life it's fantastic it is so exciting there's always just something going on
you know you never know you life is springing up everywhere
anyway we're going to wrap it up because i feel like i'm just sitting here rambling
thank you so much as always for joining us on this little video this tour we will make sure
to bring you updates on all the annuals that we potted up we have another big shipment coming up
this week right jerry yeah this coming week we're going to have another massive
amount of annuals coming in from proven winners we'll be doing hanging baskets
so we can show you how we pot up hanging baskets that whole process everything so
still working on the greenhouse jerry got the heater hung so the gas company is coming to
hook it up i believe on monday or tuesday so things are progressing quite nicely as always
we appreciate you thank you so much for all your kind words and encouragement and your support
we truly appreciate it you all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends