hello friends it is Jenny welcome to the weekly nursery update with gardening with creekside
coming to you from Creekside nursery in Dallas North Carolina and I want to give you a little
bit of an explanation as to why we do these weekly nursery tours for my people who are local in this
area this is meant to be as an inspiration for you to come shop here at Creekside so you can
see what we have in stock what is really growing and thriving this week here at the nursery and
just to give you some inspiration on what you can do in your gardens now we have got a ton of new
followers which we are so incredibly thankful for both through all sorts of different social media
we have gotten a lot of new fans and we're welcome to gardening with Creekside so I have people all
over the country so if you are in an area that you're not close enough that you can come shop
at Creekside this is an informal fun way to get inspired for you to go to your local nursery to
see what is growing blooming and thriving in your region because we are in North Carolina
where a zone 7b it is the middle of May here and honestly right now our annual inventory has gone
down hopefully we're gonna be bringing in some more so we're already starting to think about
perennials hot weather plants that kind of thing but if you're a follower in Michigan or Washington
State you're going to be several weeks or months behind of where we are so what I'm going to be
suggesting may not be the most appropriate for you right now people in Florida you're ahead of us so
this is meant for you to have some inspiration to seek out your independent nursery in your area go
visit talk to them find out what is a great plant for you to be planting right now in your yard
this is very informal here it is this is a Friday afternoon this is Ginny and all of her glory from
working outside at the nursery hot and sweaty you know here's a hot mess we got kovin here going on
don't care so it's very informal we're just gonna go through I will because a lot of you have said
Jenny I need the names that you talk so fast or don't understand the names so we're gonna try to
do a better job of showing you the plant tags just know that this video is not edited at all this is
a one take wonder so there's no editing we filmed this then go and upload it to get it into your
hands right away so we will do better as far as trying to show you tags but there's not going to
be on these types of videos any type of graphics coming up those are for the more formal edited
videos where we do go into a lot of depth now with all of that being said let's move on into some
fantastic perennials that are going great right now all right first things first butterfly weed
now I don't know if I've met a gardener anywhere that does not love butterflies and want to support
the butterfly population in their area this is an absolutely fantastic native plant and that you can
put in your garden what's even better is this in zones 3 to 9 so basically the whole country so no
matter where you are you can seek out butterfly weed this is what there's a food it's a host
plant for the Monarchs hope I'm getting this right said of the day my brains not working right Jerry
shaking his head yes the Monarchs so butterfly weed is a great plant it is native there you go
known as 3 to 9 it will be about 18 to 24 inches tall and you're gonna want to space them out about
18 inches apart so again it loves the course loves the Sun is a great one another fantastic perennial
that loves the hot hot dry Sun is proven winners denim and lace this is a Russian sage fantastic
perennial it is in Hardy sorry Jerry zones I just lost it 4 to 9 so again basically the whole
country treat this a lot like lavender as far as your growing conditions really likes it hot and
dry so put it in that part of your garden that receives the most Sun what we love about this is
that it will do these gorgeous purple blooms and in fact this is it has buds if you can't really
see it because of the camera but there are buds on this and they are long lasting blooms this will
get to be about I'm gonna check my tag again the height on this is going to be like 28 to 32 inches
tall and you're gonna space it pretty far out like 3 feet apart from each other so this turns into
an absolutely gorgeous nice big shrub it's not a shrub it's a perennial but you get what I'm saying
so it's not gonna be a dainty plant it's gonna be a nice impactful plant so we have that this
is another great perennial from proven winners so if you are familiar with red-hot pokers that
is the generic term that this is an old timey plant wonderful but this actual plant is not
an old timey plant so I tell people instead of it being a red-hot poker it's a yellow hot poker this
is part of their pyromania series this is flash point so in that whole series there's all these
different colors flashpoint is really neat because it is yellow and as it ages it will turn white so
on a plant you can get different colors again this is going to be a nice sized plant like 4 to 5 feet
tall it is Hardy in zones 5b to 9 so keep that in mind I put this in my flower bed that is kind of
my eclectic cottage garden bed it will bloom later on in the season it loves it really hot red hot
pokers they love it hot so if you can see right now it has grape foliage no blooms that's going to
come later in the season when everything else is starting to look kind of sad so that's a great one
of course echinacea we love echinacea especially here in the south because it is so hot and dry
all the time oh my word especially you know right now in the spring is lovely it's fantastic being
a hit about the 1st of June and all of a sudden it turns into an oven so this is echinacea this
is a fantastic series it is the sombrero series if you are looking for some hot vivid colors
in your garden then you need to get some of this sombrero series so there is red orange and yellow
that we have here at the nursery these are the most vibrant colors I've ever seen orange is a
great Clemson Orange go Tigers the red is just a big deep rich red and then yellow it's just like
oh you know very bright very bright yellow so they make an absolutely gorgeous they get to be
a nice size let me see I forgot to tell you all the details on this guy about 18 to 20 inches
tall you're going to space them about two feet apart and it is Hardy in zones four to nine so
again a big huge range that this sombrero series of echinacea can be grown in so that's it as far
as right now on this section of the perennials so we're gonna move around and you can see Blessed
Mother's Day we got wiped out in the past nursery tours you have seen we've had massive amounts of
annual color right now we're lacking a little bit no fret it's coming back one thing look at these
aqua pots from proven winters we got our first shipment in this past almost exactly a week ago
these gorgeous beauties look how big this thing is now this is more kind of the professional line
all the aqua pots are not this large most of them are more proportional for the average homeowner
but this one is massive I have planted one we're gonna do a video on how what what an aqua pot is
basically it's a self watering container from proven winners and Michael Carr and then Jack
Barnwell is a whole big collaboration so this was not planted on purpose because we're gonna do a
video explaining what the aqua pot is how you use it why you need it in your life and how I plant it
so this is what its gonna look like over here but so stay tuned for that we're gonna move on down
the miss Molly's Miss Molly butterfly bushes good golly Miss Molly because they are big and
they are budding out and they are getting ready to explode in color Miss Molly is a wonderful
butterfly bush from proven winners I've had it in our yard for years and it is just a faithful
reliable great butterfly bush it will get about four to five feet tall it's not quite as wide as
that maybe about three feet the hardiness zones on it of course like I said we are a zone seven
five to nine so we're right there in the middle so it's perfect for us and she just does that best I
can describe it is just this electric purple pink color like a deep raspberry it's just fantastic so
we're gonna come over here to the ponds because we've got some great new perennials that jury
picked up today as we go pow I want to give you an update on my wheelbarrow look at this beauty
y'all I took an inspiration from one of proven winners recipes and this thing is a like exceeding
all of my expectations all I did was took an old wheelbarrow that had a flat tire we weren't using
and even more the handles was given us splinters so I said instead of throwing it away we're gonna
turn it into a planter back here in the back we have the rockin salvia blue suede shoes there's
two of them in there then I have the brand new Vista snow drift visit petunia pure white there
are two petunias in here I put them in as gallons I was thinking about that but there's two in here
then we have the dichondra Silver Falls which is just an amazing accent plant foliage plant
it's gonna trail down I love how it is making this great mat coming down and then the last one that I
added on my own was the blew my mind of ovule as' which will see if it gets smothered by the other
ones but it loves it hot hot so it's not really coming to its glory yet because like last Saturday
it was 38 degrees so it's still recovering but saying that it was 38 degrees and 37 35
actually I think it got down to 35 degrees I did not cover this at all and look at it it's amazing
so think outside the box as we were saying think outside just your typical planter again I took a
chair that the bottom was falling out of took the chair found a cheap old plastic pot that would fit
perfectly on here and I planted a hanging basket so anything can become a planter if it will hold
dirt and it holds a little bit of water then you can make it into a planter so think big and
speaking of big elegans this is elegans hosta it is a massive huge low-maintenance hosta my
mama gave this to me last year she divided her Zout gave it to me clearly it loves this spot
and does great and if I'm not mistaken we have elegans here so if you are a local person and
you love this hosta you want to come get one we have got them so come get them speaking of hostas
let's come on down here look at this I think I've showed you this before this is a container I made
three years ago this is drinking gourd hosta when I put it in it was a gallon size three years later
it is this massive gorgeous hosta it's called drinking gourd because the leaves will cup up
like a gourd and it holds water so you can see right here when it got watered it's holding on
to that water so drinking gourd again all the little cups there's many of them in here but I
haven't astilbe in here and I have a Japanese painted fern bless her heart she's holding on
she is holding her own in here with this hosta so we have those tons more hostas we had a huge
selection of hostas so think you know do I have a shady area when I planted that I had it on my
front porch because that was the only shady area I had there for one little shade forget me and each
other made it into a pot we've got all sorts of we've got Patriot we've got oh my goodness look
at these beauties this is that stained glass the summon substance which is a massive one and I'm
going so fast I'm sorry I told I told everybody I would slow down this is this is the elegance
so this is that hosta that we had up there tons and tons of things again you know me I could sit
here and chitchat all day long about hostas and plants and all sorts of things the point is get
out there find a great local nursery that you can go and talk to pick their brains ask them what is
a great plant for your situation I'm sure that they would be more than happy to help you we are
here at Creekside so again thank you so much for watching thank you for all of your support your
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