on today's episode of gardening with creekside
we are going to give you some fun whimsical
a little out of the ordinary container ideas
one for the sun and one for the shade stay tuned
hey friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and
today i have two fun containers that i want to share with you
one is for full sun and one is for the shade
first off we are here in front of the barn
and i have this large huge ginormous water trough
that i use as a container here at the nursery it is a full sun
planting because the sun comes up it gets
lots of great morning sun we needed something really big here in
front of the barn because the barn is pretty big
so when customers come to the nursery they see this and it
is a showstopper i have three four
plants in here three of which are brand new to proven winners
this season so we're gonna just name them from back to front and then we'll
talk about a little bit so here in the back this nice gorgeous
hedge is wicked witch coleus
love this plant so we'll start with that next the little white popping out
is diamond snow euphorbia lots of just bright pretty white blooms
and then this gorgeous beauty that is trailing in all directions is supertunia
sharon sharon is a double petunia as you can see
and then i did pop in two black sweet potato vines these are not
new this year but i thought they made a great impact so
let me tell you about this container and how we came to arrive
at having a livestock water trough as a flower pot
it was last year i was part of a gardening group
on facebook and somebody had this idea of a water trough and used it as a
container now she probably was actually a farmer
that was actually recycling something but i love the idea so i stole it
so we went to our local farm livestock supply
store and got the biggest water trough that they had
this thing is massive it is a metal water trough
for cows and other livestock i think it's like 169 gallons so it's massive
last year it was in july when we did this i filled it full of coleus and in
fact we did a video last fall of this in all of its glory and so it
was spectacular this year i started dreaming
about this container gosh like in october i don't even know
if the season was over yet and i was already excited and thinking about it
so i finally decided on this combination and i
just cannot be more pleased with it the wicked witch
has filled in everybody is getting happy and knowing each other and spilling over
i planted this in april once we were kind of past the
threat of a frost april the 15th is our last frost date
here in north carolina so i waited till then but then wouldn't
you know we did have a frost in may but because this is right here at the
barn i did not cover my coleus they did get some of the leaves did get
zapped a little bit but the plant itself was protected enough
that they were fine so i did not have to replace any of these beauties
it did delay their growth a little bit but the last two weeks we have been like
in the 90s and so everybody has exploded and is
growing this wicked witch is fantastic because
it can do sun or shade it will end up getting to be
18 to 18 inches to 24 inches tall really massive and it's kind of hard to
tell in this now that it's growing but they are
staggered planted in here to give them more room so that is that wicked witch
coleus then we have the diamond snow diamond
snow is new to the euphorbia series with proven winners
this is very similar to diamond frost that we all know and love in its
height and size wise but it just has that really tight
compact white blooms on it makes a really big
impact frost is more airy diamond snow is really tight and white
i have had to trim miss sharon here because sharon i wanted sharon to
fall over because that was going to be my
spiller and she was going to fall over and she is doing that but sharon
not only wanted to go down she wanted to go back so i have to
constantly be in here trimming her so that she does not take
over the diamond snow it's all working very nicely but i
think if i didn't trim her back she probably would have
overtaken them completely so that is a little bit of maintenance that i'm
having to do in that and then of course the black sweet
potato vine to mirror that dark image the dark
colors from the wicked witch and there we go just an absolutely
gorgeous massive container that takes full sun so
if you're thinking you know that you have a big space that you need to fill
in i advise you to get a water trough it is
a great way a long-term solution to fill in a big
space now i know some of you are going to ask
me this because i've had this question a lot did i drill holes in the bottom of
the water trough no i did not because in the back
it does have a spout i suppose is what you would call
it so we kept that the cap off of that it's about one inch
above the base of the water trough i don't mind even if
it does have water all in the bottom again it's kind
of that wicking action so i don't have to be over here watering this
every single day i can give it right now a
good healthy drink like once every two weeks then with rain
that helps supplement it now when we get into the long hot hot seasons july and
august i will have to water it more frequently
but by not putting the drainage holes in the bottom
it has helped but there is a way for that water to overflow
i do not change out the entire water trough of dirt every year
now it is filled from the very bottom to the very top
with a garden soil just a potting mix because i did not want to put any kind
of you know people will say put packing peanuts or
empty you know plastic bottles or pine cones here in the south so you don't
have to you know use so much dirt i do not
belong and believe in that camp that theory
of when you're doing a container i say fill it full of your great
potting mix that way your roots have lots of room to grow
holds the water holds the fertilizer they are
very happy plants so this is a great idea for the sun
now let's talk about a fun and unique way
to plant for the shade now here we are at the nursery
under what we call like the pergola area and i have
this gorgeous shade container that is absolutely
loving life right now this is a fantastic
cement container that i got years and years ago with my mama
at a local garden center iconic just right across the state line
in south carolina this poor thing has been moved around
our property dismantled used for all sorts of
different things and she has finally found her
new home her permanent home here at the nursery in front of
the outhouse if you remember we did a video about the outhouse that we have
um so it is here this the way that the sun goes
this does get 99 of the day it is in shade it does get a touch of
sun the late afternoon sun but look at this beauty this was
actually inspired by one of proven winners
recipes that they put out every single year
the only variation is i changed one plant but we'll start with this
so in the back we have velveteen coleus so this is the color blaze
velveteen in their recipe they called for
rediculous i did have rediculous in here but as we talked about those late frosts
that we got in may well rediculous bless her soul she did
not make it and so she perished in that frost
so i had to switch it out and i didn't have another rediculous to put in there
so i said well velveteen is a great substitute
so velveteen is in here and growing quite nicely
then on each side of velveteen i have the strawberry drop coleus another color
blaze from proven winners this is actually considered a trailing
coleus though so you will notice velveteen is very upright the strawberry
drop is is still upright so it's not trailing
as far as a spiller that you think but it just is filling in and it just
kind of comes and goes low goes high just is a great filler piece then
in front for all of our bloomy blooms is the rockapulco double impatiens and
this is coral reef if you've watched me for any amount of
time you know how much i love the rockapucco series
of double impatiens from proven winners this is coral reef
there are two in here and they are just filling in and doing great i mean just
an absolute show stopper for color then in the front we have on each side there
are two of them this is the sweetheart jet black
sweet potato vine again i love that blackness from this
sweet potato vine just brings a whole different dimension against this bright
green of the coral reef it will be a spiller
as it grows it fills in and it will spill
down so again with regular water fertilizer and the right amount of
light you're going to have a gorgeous
container whether you have sun or you have shade
so as long as you know how much sun you're getting because this is very
important to watch your space and know are you
getting full sun full sun is considered at least six
hours are you getting shade shade would be about four hours or less
either way as long as you know your your sun conditions you can have gorgeous
flowers i hope you have enjoyed the this video
that you have been inspired gotten some ideas for your space
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