if you are lucky enough to live in the vicinity of Creekside nursery this is
the site that you're going to see when you come to the nursery come take a tour
with me as I show you this great entrance
hello friends it is Jenny welcome to Gardening with Creekside today I am
going to take you on a little garden tour of the entrance to our nursery
Creekside nursery this is there's actually three parts kind of of this
entrance so we're gonna go through them one by one the first one is this massive
bed over here now this is a relatively new bed for us we just put it in within
the last year it was late last summer early fall that we put it in in fact we
did a whole video on that installation of the bed and then all of the
perennials and the shrubs and trees that are in here so if you have questions or
certain plants that you see that you really like go check out this video and
it will give you all of the details about those well we're going to focus on
today is the annuals that are in here this is a really large bed basically it
is a triangular shape it is a bit challenging because it is in the shade
for most of the day until about lunchtime it gets several hours of
really intense hot Sun and then late evening it goes back into shade so I had
to find plants that would be really high performers in both Sun and shade and it
is at the bottom of a hill so that gets a lot of moisture comes into this bed
this is not on irrigation so it is either really wet or it is really dry
and lately we've been having some great thunderstorms so this area has stayed
nice and damp so we're just going to go through all of these plants and I'm just
gonna kind of tell you what they are and why I chose them and why I love them
first around here around the big rock that we pulled out of the pond here at
the nursery are three of the rock and blue note rock and blue suede shoes
salvias I love the rockin series of salvia from proven winners because
they're just low-maintenance bugs do not like to chew on them but
hunting birds and the pollinators absolutely adore them
so the hummingbirds will come to this all the time my honey bees bumble bees
love this plant it's nice and tall and wide again I don't really have to come
in here and pinch it it's just a really low maintenance high-performing plant
and all of these plants that are in this bed are annuals from proven winners so
just to give you an idea of who came up with all these fantastic plants put in
some pops of white with the Dinan snow euphorbia diamond snow is new this year
and it's just a really tight compact plant with lots of white blooms on it so
I absolutely love it down here we have the sweetheart Sweet Caroline jet-black
sweet potato vine it is a lot of information to remember all these plants
all it is just a great classic dark annual it is low it will spread it will
fill in the bottom of underneath the salvia sand all around the euphorbias I
love that the this particular one because it has those really sweet
heart-shaped leaves on it really fantastic
this little area was always kind of a problem in my head when I was trying to
brainstorm on how to plant this and I knew that coleus was going to play a
really integral part of this flower bed because the color blaze series of coleus
from proving winners is fantastic in that it can do sun or shade anything in
between so that's perfect for this bed the back of the bed gets more shade the
front of the bed gets more Sun so that's why I can have petunias up front and I
can have my coleus in the back I alternated between the lime time coleus
and the wicked witch coleus again if I had just done one coleus it really kinda
I think would have gotten lost or looked not as pronounced as it does by putting
the two different ones in there that wicked witch has such nice dark foolish
to it with the lime green edging and then you
put the lime time right behind and they explode with each other absolutely
gorgeous I love it and they'll get to be about 18 to 24 inches tall and wise they
are really filling in then I have as an arch kind of in front of the coleus one
of my all-time favorite annuals from proven winners this is surefire begonia
and this is in the rose color there is a red and I actually put the red in here
but I didn't like it I like the Rose better the Surefire begonias again Sun
or shade anything in between very easy there are no pests that like to chew on
them so that's always a win-win so we love that so they're in this half circle
arch around through here and then there's also three of the purple
fountain grass --is gonna tiptoe through here so there are three of the purple
fountain grass --is in this bed again it echoes the dark color off of the Wicked
Witch and then I do have some lore petal UM's up right at the base of the sign so
we're kind of repeating those same colors throughout the bed in front of me
I have paradise supertunia vista paradise from proven winners these were
hanging baskets and there were four hanging baskets that I planted in here
so this was one hanging basket one two three and four they have just loved this
area and taken off that is a great hack in fact and remember in the video that I
showed you that little trick of planting your hanging baskets in the landscape
gives you massive color instantly it's fantastic then here we have in the
center this is the angel' ona super bloom this is specifically for the
landscape the super blue is for the landscape as opposed to just a regular
angel' ona angel face blue it's a little bit bigger
it'll get taller but it has those great hot deep purple blooms on it the angel
own is in the snapdragon family so it kind
of reminds you of that Snapdragon so we've got those going on then back here
also in the back we're going to tiptoe through here very carefully we have
diamond mountain euphorbia so we had diamond snow up front by the salvias
these are diamonds snow now some of these are doing really well and some of
them are struggling a little bit these guys right here are doing great
I love down a mountain because they'll get nice and tall they can get again
like that two feet tall and nice and wide some of them are a little bit
sadder than others like the ones back here in the back I'm not sure if it's
because they don't give it as much Sun or if it's really wet and it's too wet
for them again this is the first year planting in this bed as far as the
summer so I'm still trying to figure some things out what I will do next year
differently we'll see but you know that's the great thing about gardening
if something doesn't work one year it's alright just learn from it and move home
right but hopefully this diamond snow will take off as it heats up
maybe it'll dry up a little bit for us and they will just take off I am
fertilizing all of this all of these annuals on a regular basis with the
proven winners water soluble fertilizer so I thought I did this whole bed today
it's very important to fertilize your plants because remember food equals
flowers we have some great azaleas but look at this beauty right here oh this
is a fantastic hydrangea this is what we call a panicle hydrangea you will notice
on the blooms that it's not the mop head it's not a round ball it's not a lace
cap but it's a panicle panicles or that cone shape this panicle is a strawberry
sundae love it because it is more of a petite hydrangea petite meeting the
three to four feet but it comes out this creamy white and then it'll turn this
beautiful pink color so again that's where we get the strawberry sundae from
so this is again her first year in here and she is doing great love the panel
hydrangeas because they bloom on new growth every year she is loving life and
full of blooms and then back here this was very interesting so this is a mop
head so we've talked about mop heads this is a mop head that great classic
ball there's three of these in this bed that have been here for years now this
is Annabelle Annabelle is a classic hydrangea just an industry standard for
years and years typically their stems can be really weak and floppy so they
have these huge heads on them but when we get rain they tend to flop over
I have pinched this guy back so many times that you can tell that she is
standing up nice and tall this is a weaker little bloom so it's falling down
but the brand-new blooms are a nice white and as they age they turn just a
little bit of a hint of a lime green so Annabelle's are fantastic if you ever
have an area for an Annabelle and you see one grab it
you'll love it now so we have the interest of the nursery coming over here
we have just a really simple easy little bit right here that's been here for a
long time believe it or not under here is an aqua pot it's a little hard to see
though there is a beautiful majestic falling blue aqua pot in here this is
the medium sized one for that majestic falling blue I have a vertigo grass from
proven winners and then this is their new snow drift vista petunia that pure
white bloom there's one grass and there's two petunias in here and they
are thriving and doing wonderfully well love those aqua pots then there are
three perennial grasses don't ask me what the names are because I don't know
this was you know one of those plants you inherit from somebody well I
inherited this plant from my mama she forgot what the name is I don't know
what the name is but it's a great perennial grass and it'll do the plumes
so there you go pretty pretty arrest and then through here I have three hanging
baskets that I planted and this was the Grand Traverse recipe from proven
winners now we did just get a pretty big thunderstorm
that came through right before we filmed so they're a little beat down from the
rain and wet right now but they make a nice statement right here again nice and
easy to plant hanging baskets in the ground it's an easy way to get gorgeous
color right away and then lastly we're gonna come back up here just a couple of
short weeks ago I showed you when I redid this mailbox area and you will
remember I pruned the heck out of these sunshine Lagoo shrooms and look see do
you see how this beautiful new growth on them they're doing great so pruning is a
good thing when you do it right and at the right time of year so they're doing
great the pentas are coming along again they've lost a lot of their petals from
the rain they've got fertilized today but they are filling in quite nicely we
get some good hot sunny days and they will flush out with lots of blooms but I
hope you've enjoyed this little tour of the entrance to Creekside nursery if you
are ever in our neck of the woods we would love for you to come visit us just
let us know maybe if you're coming in the offseason
so make sure that we're here but we would love to see you we've had people
from all over come visit us I hope you've enjoyed this tour have a
fantastic day make sure to like this video subscribe to gardening's Creekside
and we'll see you next time thanks friends bye