hello friends welcome to the weekly update here at the nursery hope y'all
are having a great week okay we're in greenhouse number two go I don't think
we can stick another plant in here I mean there are plants everywhere Jerry's
tiptoe in hopefully he won't crash through the floor as he's spanning but
yeah we've got lots of plants in here so we've got hanging baskets in here galore
we've got perennials galore we're so close to getting the new greenhouse done
we just have to get those side curtains on and some water and we can move plants
up there I hope you all enjoyed that little video we did that Christine put
together my creative genius who put that awesome video together if you have no
clue what I'm talking about scroll back to like on Saturday and you get a really
quick little short video of us putting the plastic on the greenhouse that's a
30-foot by 72 foot greenhouse so it was a little big it was kind of fun putting
that top layer of plastic on I thought I was gonna go flying like a kite there
for a minute but it all turned out great so check out that video that's a lot of
fun I want to show you some of the fun perennials that are just man they are
happy in here they are growing growing growing and first that I see right here
is the desert plains grass you can tell that Jerry has the heat cranked up in
here because look at all this new growth desert plains by its name loves the heat
this is a perennial grass in here so we do a lot of annual grasses that are fun
but we also have a good number of perennial grasses this is a PW plant it
is a full Sun it gets to be about a 4 by 4 and then in late summer it'll put some
really pretty white blooms perennial grasses and grasses in general are a
great addition to your landscape it doesn't have to be all flowers or just
all green shrubs perennial grasses are a great addition to your landscape so make
sure you think about that you want color and texture in your garden not just all
the same thing so we've got a great green grass then
look at this one I love this I love this come out color this is blue whiskers
this is really fun again it's a nice soft grass this is not like when I was
growing up my mama had pampas grass and she'd always like don't touch it because
it'll you know cut you to shreds but these grasses are nice and soft it's
okay that you play with it your your kids touch it but this one is a full Sun
to part shade and it's a shorty it's only like a 10 to 12 inches tall so this
will be great at the front of the landscape or even in containers to give
you a different texture now if you did not check out the video
I've been we posted it yesterday on pruning and butterfly bushes make sure
you go and look at that because this is the perfect time of year to get your
butterfly bushes prune back and your hydrangeas that bloom on new growth why
am I talking about that because right here we have the grand cascade butterfly
bush this is one we did it last year these are new plugs for this year and
guess what this old girl needs to get trimmed back because she's already
starting to put on some blooms which isn't a bad thing but if I don't go
ahead and trim this back because it's in this warm greenhouse it's just gonna get
really long and leggy and just looks spindly so I'm just gonna come in here
and give it a nice see this is a bud bloom that's coming on so I'm just going
to come back and probably pinch it back to like right here here here so we've
got to go through all these butterfly bushes and trim them back so that way
when you come and get them in you know late March April May they're not all
crazy and gangly so this grand cascade is a gorgeous one I love it
the bleeding hearts are doing amazing I mean all these things are just gorgeous
this is a really neat one this is new this year this is that King of Hearts
it's like a fern leaf see how the texture on that is just gorgeous it's
exquisite we love this thing this will definitely be
going in my landscape somewhere and it's really cool is that it can take more Sun
typically bleeding hearts are a strictly a shape plant they do not like the Sun
at all they'll go dormant this one will because it's the king of hearts will
last in the Sun of course you do have to water it
but it'll be a it'll keep its foliage all year and it's a rebloomer so this
is a great one to do the astilbes are coming along the perennial salvia i mean
look we're tiptoeing through all these plants because they're just growing like
crazy so - it baskets are going great let's go on next door if we can get in
without tripping over plants hello we're walking so what you been doing today
we've been busy with landscape consults I tell you what we put out the word for
y'all to talk to us about landscape soon I'll take us up on the offer it's great
oh well I'm thinking about it okay the ramblings of Jenny
next Saturday not this coming Saturday next Saturday is February the 29th Jerry
and I and Christine will be at the southern spring show running the proven
winners booth so be sure and come and see us I know we've got some of y'all
that are regular attendees of the southern spring show we have proven
winners because we are running the exhibit there booth they sent us 30 free
passes to get into the show so we would like to pass on that to you so anybody
who wants free passes to the southern spring show it's not date specific this
is just you know for the time that it runs of course we'll be there on the
29th so we really want you to come on the 29th and come see us and say hello
so we can hug your neck but if you want to pass this come by the nurse tree this
Friday or Saturday anytime between 9:00 and 3:30 and we'll happily give you
those tickets we are going to kind of cap them all at 5 tickets we're a family
of five so I was going to do four like no we're a family of five so if your
we're five we're gonna give you five tickets so come on out to the nursery
and we'll happily just give them to you so you can get in for free so that's
something that's exciting another thing I have started getting messages from you
lovely folks saying that you're getting your gardeners idea book in the mail
some of you got them yesterday some of you got them today so yay
if you were a customer of ours at all last year and you filled out that little
slip you will be getting one so you should have gotten it maybe yesterday
today and the next day or so if you are not one of our customers and that you've
not been to the nursery all you have to do is go to provenwinners.com and
request your free book they'll send it to you no obligation no just it'll
appear in your mailbox it is a great book of simply ideas ideas of how to put
containers together talks about the aqua pots all sorts of fun things
combinations it tells you exactly how to plant them so make sure you look it for
your PW gardeners idea book and another very exciting thing that happened we get
our UPS deliveries at night I think we're practically the last stop of the
night so we get all of our ups like at 7 o'clock at night so last night our
beloved Dave brought us look at this are you ready
we got proven winners slow release fertilizer and the water-soluble
fertilizer so we will have both of these available for sale for you these are
fantastic products so of course the slow release is great so if you're making
containers or when you're planting in the ground this spring you add a little
bit of this to the ground to the soil and it gives you a great food for your
plants then you're going to come back with your water soluble later on and you
do this about once a week once every two weeks and this is a great thing now
proven winners is different because it has extra
I earn in it Jerry's having to help me here extra iron that your typical water
soluble fertilizers do not have so this is unique to proven winners it is really
beneficial for your petunias and your calibrachoas those types of flowering
plant that gets them that really dark green leafy foliage and gorgeous blooms
so both of these will be available and of course we do have the P W potting
soil mix available to this year all right let's check on the babies let's
see how they're doing some of these are kind of like turning into teenagers I
mean I've showed you lemon coral every time look at this look look at our
beloved lemon coral I mean they're just taking off their lovely evolvulus if
you have a hot dry spot of evolvulus for you does these gorgeous blue blooms
they're a part of the morning glory family so we know that morning glories
thrive here even when we don't want them to but they blue my mind the evolvulus
is great very drought tolerant but not invasive it's not like a regular Morning
Glory which interestingly enough all of PWs plants are sterile so they don't
drop seeds so if you've ever had a pesky plant in the past that's dropped seeds
everywhere like morning glories do their plants are sterile so they don't do that
so that's really neat look at this Sun patient all right we've got one that's
trying to put on a little bloom here this is the tropical rose this is one of
our biggest sellers last year because of one the foliage so it's that bicolor
foliage and look at that nice hot pink bloom and of course the Sun patients
know they can get to know a good size 12 to 24 inches tall and wide based on how
much water they really love the water so the more water they get the bigger they
get so right now we're trying to keep them a little dry because we don't want
them going to town yet so the Surefires are doing great the Rose the reds
they're doing lovely everything down here you can of course you can see the
diamond mountain down there in all its glory vermillionaire
or more of the evolvulus these are all the annual grasses we're kind of keeping
them tamped down right now we're not really wanting them to shoot off quite
yet because they'll just get so explosive huge that we have the
fireworks which the more Sun it gets it's that flaming red really great this
is what I'm super excited about this is vertigo this is one of the largest
annual grasses that proven winners makes think of a purple fountain grass but
bigger the blades are bigger and almost like a
black like that deep deep purple that's almost a black so this is going in the
landscape and a lot of different places around the nursery so you wouldn't know
it right now because it's very green but you can see how wide that leaf is it has
a dark vein going down the center and then it will turn to that nice dark dark
purple color hanging baskets yes we've got them plenty of hanging baskets and
then look at all these babies again so we just got a shipment in last night of
all the little little plugs we've got look at this gorgeous leaf on this sweet
potato vine I love this this is the jet black by PW really fun a heart shaped
leaf if you're not into heart shape well then come on over here then we have that
one that has the really serrated edges on it I don't know which one that is the
tags knot right there it's another PW one Lantana
we got Lantana the portulaca then we've got the green sweet potato vine with the
heart-shaped leaves the impatiens I mean all sorts of goodness stuff so we have
got lots of going on we're going to be potting up plants to get y'all ready
everybody's got the bug to get out and dig in the dirt now it's a great time to
do some prep in your garden pull the weeds because the weeds are growing like
crazy you want to add some mulch just clean things up you can go ahead and do
that there's plenty of things to do in your garden right now even if you're not
planting annuals great time to plant shrubs great time to plant some
perennials even if they're dormant like I've even been thinking about plant
some hostas in different areas it's a great time to do it so hope y'all have
had a great week hopefully we'll see what this weather does maybe we'll get
snow maybe we won't we will find out but looking forward to seeing you at the
southern spring show next Saturday come see us come say hello we will talk to
you soon guys bye