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Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside 
today is a fun day it is like Christmas morning for the gardener uh I am standing here in the 
production facility potting machine behind me can you see all of those beautiful boxes I received 
um almost 30 trial perennials from our friends at Proven Winners yes it is crazy it is great 
uh of course we have a great relationship with our friends at Proven Winners and the folks 
at Walter’s Gardens Walters Gardens is the   perennial Nursery that grows and develops all of 
the perennials for Proven Winners so if you have a proven winner perennial it originated back there 
at walters’s Gardens so every time about this year our friends that Proven Winners will send us uh 
perennials that are coming out on to the market I will say some of these you may be able to find at 
your independent Garden Center and then some are going to be coming out in the next year or so we 
do have a couple of these available at Creekside uh Nursery you can go to Garden of creeks side.com 
if you’re interested in those and I will I’ll say which ones we have and which ones we don’t have 
just know that I am kind uh this is a little bit   of the teaser a wedding of your appetite for 
spring summer fall and uh things to come yes I think it was 27 different varieties of the 
pr perennials that we are going to um pot up and then I am going we’re going to grow them out 
add them to the gardens as they become ready so much fun I have not grown any of these in the 
garden hence they are new they are trials for us it’s not like I am triing them they’re going 
to be in The Proven winter line they are in The   Proven winter line however here at Creekside 
Nursery we are tring them because what I love about our relationship with proven winners is 
that they send us plants that may or may not do well for us because of course we are a North 
Carolina a Zone 8A right and so there are going to be perennials shrubs annuals that thrive better 
in different conditions we are not Universalist gardeners right each of our Gardens is unique 
and different in its own so what may grow bloom and thrive in Michigan May struggle here in North 
Carolina because of our heat humidity long growing season and what have you that’s the great thing 
is that I get to put my hands on these plants I get to trial them I get to see how they grow here 
in the greenhouse Forest because we are a grower retailer we grow the plants and then sell them 
to our customers all the plants that that uh pre winners sent to us these are either small like 
liners or they are small be Roots I get to see them and and Jerry gets to figure out how they 
grow for us these are not big huge massive you know full mature plants that I’m going to stick 
in the garden I may be getting some of those later   on in the season but we really want to know how 
are they going to grow for us in these conditions and then I put them in the garden the great thing 
again is they send me five five of every different plant I will then put them in various locations 
especially if they’re ones that are new for me a new plant a new genius right I want to really 
test it if it says full sun will it do full sun or does it need more shade for me or does it 
need complete shade all of those things that way then when um if it we are successful and these 
plants do really well for us I can then come to you Garder to Gardener and say listen I’m in 
North Carolina Zone 8A this plant was rot solid and you know just did great or I could say this 
one was a little bit more on the border for us a little bit more tender and this is my advice for 
you because I am very open about my successes and my messes am I going to kill some of these plants 
probably so because I am going to be pushing them to their limits especially those ones that are 
on the border for me because I really want to   see what they can do and what they can handle that 
is the teacher coming out in me because I want to give you uh the best information that I possibly 
can so that you are successful in your garden what I’m going to do is Jerry has everything kind of 
set up for me sweet man that he is we are going to be planting all of these in court containers 
the only one that may go in a gallon is I have a baptisia and if you’re familiar with the baptisia 
root stock from Walter’s Gardens they can be quite healthy and developed don’t think I’m going to be 
able to squeeze it into a court so everything’s   going to go into the court probably except those 
baptises I’m going to uh just kind of I’m just going to pot up and enjoy my time here in the in 
the Greenhouse nice and quiet once everything is in their containers then I’m going to come back 
through and show you all the different varieties and throw up a couple of pictures there’s not 
a ton of pictures for these plants because they   are brand new uh it takes a little while right 
to get a huge library of photos so I may have like only two pictures per plant Just Go With 
It folks right we will put up all the names and the tags and all the information so that way 
you can then um explore a little further grab your garden Journal get comfy get your favorite 
beverage and uh let’s have fun discovering the new perennials from Proven Winners that 
are going to be hitting the market soon all right my friends so I got all of the trial 
plants uh potted up and I tell you it was it was more plants than I thought we uh than I thought 
I had but I’ve got them laid down right here in the production Greenhouse this is the first 
plants in the new production Greenhouse yay uh so what we’re going to do is I’m going to just 
kind of walk through there’s a lot of plants so   I’m going to move really quickly remember this 
is kind of an overview of those new plants I will put up the tag for you that so you can see 
the name and then like I said there’s probably   only going to be like one or two pictures per 
plant so you’re just going to bear with me again we are being introduced to these brand new 
perennials they all are proven winners the ones that I’m going to talk about right now are all 
Proven Winners Walters did send me some of their branded new new plants and um so we’re going 
to do a different video on that simply because they’re so brand new I have no tags and they’re 
not even on their website yet so I want to make sure that I can give you that full information um 
when that time is available so that you can see that because there are there’s a couple in there 
that are very very intriguing and I am excited to see how they do I know that you’re going to 
love them as well speaking of because these are so brand new most of these um are not going to 
be on The Proven Winners website if you want to get some more information um because I again this 
is going to be I’m just kind of glossing over and   introducing these to you this is not an indepth 
video with all the specs on these plants you can go to Walters gardens.com that is their website 
just keep in mind that Walters is a wholesale grower so they do not sell to um like individual 
customers homeowners home gardeners you have to be a grower in order to purchase from them but you 
can’t can go and look on the website look them up by the name and you will see all of the great 
information there just know that it comes from a Grower’s perspective and not maybe necessarily the 
home Gardener perspective all right now some of these are going to be new um additions to existing 
lines of perennials and some of these are going to be like brand new plants that Proven Winners has 
never offered before so I have my phone because I took pictures of the tags so we’re just going 
to go through it this way first one is H the luminary flocks this is luminary pink lightning 
I’m a huge fan of the luminary series we have like ultraviolet um opalescence so you’re going to 
have pink lightning it is still going to be that full toart sun and it’s going to be about that 
3 ft tall these are wonderful sun loving plants they’re more resistant to powdery mildew and that 
pink lightning is going to be like a true nice beautiful pink shade it is going to be fantastic 
now this is powdery mildew resistant so it needs consistent water in the past I have had a little 
bit of issue with some powdery mildew even on my luminary flocks it was because they were under 
stress and actually not getting enough water because we had plenty of water then it went that’s 
hot and dry and they got mildew I cut them to the ground they came back with beautiful fresh new 
foliage of no powdery mildew and were stunning so I’m excited to add this pink lightning 
to the to the luminary line next we have a heliopsis sunflower family this is Touch of blush 
it is going to be a really fun one because it has a variegated folage on it but those kind of those 
traditional little small sunflower um blooms that we know of it is called Touch of blush because 
the foliage will actually have little hints of pink in it so it makes sense right with the blush 
you little hints of pink heliopsis is definitely a full sun heart sun and this is going to be about 
18 to 20 in tall nice and tight and compact okay so if you’re used to the other heliopsis within 
the pren winters line this is going to be maybe   a little bit shorter Compact and then covered in 
flowers and if you’re a fan of variegated foliage then Touch of blush is going to be a great one 
for you now next we have spiders wart this is w Web Master oh my goodness love this and I 
believe this is going to be I could be wrong but I think this is the first spider wart in um 
the pre winners line of course with the with this it can do sun or shade find it they tend to like 
a little bit of a damper area and this is going to be about 16 in tall what was really fun about 
what Walters did is they sent me both this plant as both a be root and as a um a liner so I have 
some that already has foliage and then I have some that is you know dormant and just is the 
bare root but Web Master is going to be a nice kind of a light lavender color it’s not going to 
be as Rich deep dark purple as maybe some of the other ones that we are used to so Web Master it’s 
cute let me tell you and it has got some really pretty nice thick foliage before I even like saw 
what the name was and I just opened up the box it almost reminded me foliage wise of a day lily 
so nice deep deep dark foliage with that pretty lavender blue flower on it it’s going to be great 
ailia right yo Riven winners has a great line the Firefly line we’ve talked about these before like 
Firefly Sunshine is yellow Firefly Peach Sky well there’s two new colors in the Firefly series the 
first one is fuchsia she lives up to her name she is going to be these beautiful rich rich Bea pink 
flowers as they age they’re going to turn a little bit of a more of a paler color so on that same 
plant you’re going to have that little bit of an   ombre effect of different colors yo of course and 
the Firefly sunshine I mean excuse me the Firefly series that includes Sunshine is going to be um 
a very tight upright yo yos in the past get a bad rat because they get real floppy a windstorm comes 
and they fall over they can spread too much can be invasive in your garden not the Firefly series 
and as another side note when you’re thinking about attracting pollinators to your Gardens um 
especially like your butterflies you need big open flowers and that gero that Firefly fuchsia 
and all the other fireflies definitely fit that bill because they have nice big Landing Pad shall 
we say for your butterflies this is going to be obviously nice lots of full sun and about 2 ft 
tall so check out Firefly fuchsia if you don’t like pink maybe you like to go a little hotter 
you like a little red well then there is also the Firefly red pops this is going to be a gorgeous 
nice red red color the root stock on this thing was massive I I tried to put it in a court well 
I looked at put it in a court and I was like it is not happening so you’ll notice there are some 
gallons over here because um the RO root stock from that Walter sent me was just so massive so 
that red pop is going to be same characteristics tight upright nice strong sturdy stems but in your 
red family now hostas priven winners is really famous for their Hostess it is called the series 
is Shadowland so you’ll see Shadow land and then fill in the blank for the actual cul ofart fun one 
Sound of Music so sound of music is a beautiful um really kind of what we call corrugated so 
it has a lot of texture on the leaf nice big huge fat leaves this plant is going to be about 
30 to 32 in tall and it is going to be nice and wide more on the blue side of the hostas and then 
in the center you’re going to have um some nice lightning color a little bit of a chartreuse color 
and beautiful white flowers on Sound of Music then we also have Shadowland gigantosaurus I think the 
name probably speaks for itself this is going to be a big one y’all it is going to be giant it is 
going to be a 30 to 32 in tall but huge wide with your hostas if you are like me and you live in a 
hot humid climate it’s probably going to be hard for us to reach the full maturity size of these 
hostas it is simply because of our climate the the nights that are hot and humid in the summer kind 
of tend to hold back the growth on our hostage I can go up an hour and a half up the road to the 
Blue Ridge Mountains into Blowing Rock and there are you know hostas bigger than my body if I laay 
down their temperatures are cooler drier their nights cool off therefore they can grow hostas 
in full sun and they get huge so just keep that in mind but gigantosaurus if you’re looking for a 
big one then this is going to be a great it kind   of reverses the the color of the sound of music 
Still those corrugated leaves and it’s going to be darker in the center with a beautiful um 
outline in that kind of that yellowy to the   white uh family on that one and then last but not 
least we have Shadowland Lone Star Lone Star is going to be a little bit on the smaller side but 
still a nice big presence in your garden beautiful um kind of elongated leaves on that darker green 
on the center and then um a beautiful Ed around that so definitely have lots of choices when 
when you come to hostas and Proven Winners so excited to look at those and see how they do in 
our Gardens next we have the uh new series we’ve talked about this here before on gardening with 
creek side but uh delis Sperma hearty ice plant really fun because they have four bold colors 
that they are going to be offering um here at Proven Winners so the first one is the series is 
called Kaleidoscope so just kind of keep that in mind so it is Kaleidoscope dancing Embers dancing 
Embers is going to be a really bright red with a white Center Ice plants of course are notoriously 
tough tough plants they love the sun they love dry conditions it is an evergreen it’s a beautiful 
ground cover only 2 to 4 inches tall and then it will spread out so the dancing Embers is going to 
give you a really bright r with a white eye next we have a pink Radiance pink Radiance is going 
to be on a softer side right it’s going to be in those lavender purples you’re going to be in your 
pinks so if you’re more in the purple family then you might want to look at uh Pink Radiance then we 
have one of my personal favorites razzled Dazzle razzled dazle again really nice big bold colors on 
it it’s going to be more in that pinky red with a fuchsia Center white eye great great color to it 
um if you’re looking for an explosion of color then these Kaleidoscope delerm are going to be 
perfect for you and then the last one we have is the Orchid blush so again more in that purple 
color for you a nice lavender Orchid color so we tend to go if you’re like big and bold and 
like those colors or maybe you like them a   little more softer so there’s lots of options for 
you on that next we have a new series from Proven Winners again so this is that I am not familiar 
with this plant so I could be actually butchering the name um the scientific name is Campanula there 
we go campanola there are three different colors in the series I only got one I have the tags for 
all three so I’m not sure what happened on that one but so the one that I have um I’m going to go 
ahead and just give you all of the names and let you kind of see the difference on them but these 
are going to be nice small so the whole series   is called called the mini marbles they’re going to 
be nice and petite only 6 to 8 in tall and they’re going to be in that full sun to part sun growing 
environment the first one is starbite starbrite of course is that nice beautiful clear white color 
and I will say that when I was looking at these um uh my friend K right who works for Walters she 
is our rep and she told me that these mini marbles may not do well for us because of that heat 
and humidity in the summer and even on Walter’s website it encourages Us in the South to put it in 
more of a shadier condition but when it’s in that small size it will work perfectly on the front of 
your border right so if you’re looking for a nice little small ground clever with some pops these 
mini marbles might be a good option for you so you   got starbrite and then we have Twilight Twilight 
nice kind of that lavender color really softer on the on your colors and then we have the next 
one is my phone is not cooperating y’all here we go oh midnight so midnight little bit of a darker 
color so a little bit that on that darker side of of your purple so lots of nice cool colors there 
baptisia huge fan of The Proven Winners baptisia because these are stunning plants they are low 
maintenance they’re spring Bloomers early like late spring early summer bloomers and they bring 
such beautiful color and texture to the Garden so what they have is they have improved the um 
vanilla cream so we have decadence vanilla cream to now what makes the vanilla cream too different 
than vanilla cream is that it is going to bloom a little bit earlier and you’re going to get 
repat blooms on it so you’re going to get a second BL uh flush you’re going to get a third 
flush so you’re going to have um earlier blooms and they’re going to bloom for a longer period 
of time of course vanilla cream that nice real soft soft kind of that creamy white color great 
structure in your garden definitely going to be a full sun and babasia it has really deep roots 
so if they traditionally do not transplant well so if you have when you’re thinking of it you 
really need to look at the size and make sure that you’re going to give it plenty of room to 
grow and if you need move something maybe you move   what’s around it and not your baptisia because 
oh my gosh the root systems on baptisia that’s what makes it so drought tolerant and Long Live 
is because their roots go forever they don’t pop up but the mound just gets bigger but extremely 
long lift perennials so just make sure that you know exactly where you want it and that you plan 
accordingly vanilla cream 2 is going to be about 42 in tall next this one I’m really excited about 
because because I have told you in the past I’m a little leer on perennial salvas I love pink 
profusion this one has peaked my interest this is a living large Big Sky by its name it is going 
to be a very nice size Salvia gorgeous folage on it stunning blue flowers really tall like upright 
sturdy strong stems the foliage on it itself is to be a little bit bigger than what we think of 
our traditional peral salvas salvas of course are going to be in that full sun they are deer 
resistant rabbit resistant because they have that kind of that um herbaceous smell when you crush it 
so if you have Critter problems you might want to try um perennial salvas and even annual salvas 
in general they tend to be more uh rabbit deer resistant now this is going to be 28 to 32 in tall 
gorgeous color on it um and then of course those Blues are huge attractors for your pollinators 
so I’m excited about this one to see how well it does next brand new I had no experience with 
this plant whatsoever this is cotton candy I am intrigued very much though by its foliage cotton 
candy I’m not even going to try to pronounce it you can look at the tag and you can you can you 
people who are smarter than me you can tell me uh your experience if you have any experience with 
this uh particular plant right this Genius of a plant it is going to be a full to part sun but 
what I’m really intrigued about is the foliage on this because it came as a liner and it’s got 
beautiful foliage as CeCe was here helping um fill up some pots for me she said it reminds you 
of a maiden hair fern so if you’re familiar with a maiden hair fern and it’s foliage but it’s a 
lot bigger absolutely gorgeous Walters says that this makes a great cut flow flower obviously it’s 
going to have those really tall upright flowers on it nice soft pink cotton candy color this is going 
to be really interesting so I I’m intrigued to see how this does and put this in multiple areas on 
throughout the gardens kind of push the limits on this to see how it does here in North Carolina 
without a doubt I know that these are going to do great in North Carolina we have got some Stokes 
Aster this is going to be a new series that is introduced from Proven Winners the series is 
called totally stoked great right and there are going to be three colors um initially what we 
had in here first we have white caps obviously a beautiful pure white flower on this Stokes Asters 
are native to the southeast United States these are going to do great I am not worried about this 
at all definitely going to be in your full sun so that means you need to have at least 6 hours or 
more and what I do like about them too is that they’re going to be more petite only about 2 feet 
tall so depending on your flower bed you could put it in the front of your flower bed or the middle 
but these are going to be very um long blooming perennials native that is like you know it used to 
be that the pollinator was the buzz buzz word now it’s natives natives are really uh becoming very 
popular right now so these Stokes Asters are going to be great the next color that we have is totally 
stoked Rip Tide really nice um in that more of a true blue flower that blue with a little bit of 
purple in there right and I love them because of their flowers like they’re like a double frilly 
flower just gorgeous and of course because it is native you’re going to have more deer resistant 
radit resistant and your pollinators are going to absolutely love this plant there was actually two 
I think I said three there was only two in that series now we’ve talked about out these two before 
we actually have these online two new penans from Proven Winners they already had um one but this 
is going to be brand new and it’s going to be a   new series this is the bejweled series um so in 
bejweled we have the rose rhinestones gorgeous color really vibrant color to it pen Simmons love 
the full sun they’re going to be 14 to 16 in tall and then and the next one that we have in that 
series is the pink pearls pink pearls is going to be a little bit bigger 16 to 20 in tall I think 
what I’m going to do is actually plant them and in intermingle them together because we’ll have I 
think the colors will complement each other really nicely we have some height difference and just you 
know I may put like just I got 10 plants total I’m just going to mix them all together really not 
even pay attention to what the colors are and   just plant them in a mass somewhere and I think 
they’re going to be absolutely stunning together nice strong upright stems gorgeous color on them 
your pollinators love them your hummingbirds love them this is going to be um a really fun two new 
additions to have in the garden corops corops is a great perennial it loves the sun it is a long 
Bloomer there are four new coreopsis that proven Winters is introducing and the series is called 
designer threads because these are going to be threadlike um copsis vertica so that’s going to 
be kind of the bloodline of the plant so you’re going to have a very fine threadlike foliage on 
it so when they said designer threads that is kind of a wink and a nudge to uh the foliage on 
it so four different colors it really is going to depend they’re all going to kind of grow in those 
same kind of conditions it really is what color   suits your your fancy and which one do you like U 
copsis does love the full sundo so the first one we have is scarlet ribbons again you love that big 
bold red color scarlet ribbons is going to be for you next we have Golden Needles Golden Needles 
reminds me more of what we would consider like a traditional coreopsis bright bright sunny yellow 
petals with more of a red eye going to be really attractive and then this is a fun one then we 
have this great by color creamy Calico creamy Calico it’s going to have nice creamy white outer 
edges and then a really nice rich red kind of a a little bit on the not pink side but on a Raspberry 
side of a color and then the next one of course is going to be just absolutely so much fun and then 
nameless is perfect part strings Valentine’s Day is going to be coming up here in a couple of weeks 
and this just reminds me of like a sweet little   Valentine flower right part strings with that the 
white on the outside and then that kind of that pinky red in the middle oh my gosh it is going 
to be so much fun to see how these do because like I said chois typically they love those full 
sun conditions and are just longtime Bloomers so we’re going to be uh very excited about that and 
I believe oh no we have one more we have an alium I didn’t get a I didn’t get a tag so I don’t 
have a pi on it bobblehead so bobble head is going to be a fun New alium if you’re familiar 
with Serendipity if Serendipity is famous with impr Proven Winners right so bobble head is going 
to be different in the fact of that it is going to bloom earlier the plant size is going to be 
bigger and your blooms are going to be bigger another big difference that you’re going to 
notice right away is the color of the flower   Serendipity is a really deep deep purple and 
bobble head is going to be a nice light color um a lighter I don’t want to say pale because that 
sounds bad um but just a lighter purple a lighter lavender I personally have Serendipity throughout 
different parts of my Gardens um aliums of course are deer resistant rabbit resistant because they 
are onions and critters typically don’t I guess they don’t like onions so that works for us 
right um but you can absolutely incorporate bobblehead and Serendipity together I think it 
would be stunning just like what I’m going to   do with those penans is you’re going to you can 
mix them because you’re going to have different Bloom times you’re going to have different height 
uh bobblehead will actually even start to have a   little bit of a twisted Leaf to it which is really 
fun um and then it just gives a whole different interest especially if you have deer and rabbit 
issues find those plants that are really deer and rabbit resistant aliums and then there’s nothing 
wrong with getting all these different types all these different varieties of aliums and putting 
them throughout the garden because if you have   different Bloom times you have different kind 
of shades of color you have different heights all of that works really well together so this is 
going to be super super fun but yeah we’ve got all of them in here I went through all of them once 
I get the information from Walters on the ones that they sent me uh of their of their plants I 
am really excited to share those there’s one in particular that I’m dying to share but there’s no 
picture so I’m not going to share it until I have   a picture to share with you what we’re going to do 
with these they are going to stay in here this is going to be kind of the section for um our trial 
plants the new introductions like the annuals that come in and then the plants for the gardens so 
we’re going to be in here and section them off we’ll give them a nice little drink of water and 
then basically they’re going to hang out um where am I going to put them I probably will not put 
them in the signature Garden this year because I want these are truly trial plants for me and I 
want my signature Garden to have the plants that I know really grow bloom and Thrive here in North 
Carolina because I want them to be show pieces and really look fantastic not to say that next year 
or in the coming years we don’t take these and move them to the signature Garden so these are 
going to end up more maybe like in the burm on um either side and then the chicken Co Gardens 
those are probably because those are really a   lot of sun areas and then of course I have my new 
uh shade garden there at the chicken coop so I can incorporate those plants um within there obviously 
we will keep you uh updated on how everybody does and I will as always I will share my successes 
and messes with you and be very brutally honest with how these plants do because um there’s no bad 
plants there’s just bad plant placement and maybe some of these don’t work in my climate doesn’t 
mean that it’s a bad plant it just means that it’s it’s one that I can’t have or May maybe fingers 
crossed they all just do exceptionally well and we love them all to pieces either way I will let you 
know and keep you up to dat on that again just a very big broad Strokes of a video here for these I 
just want to share with you what’s coming down the line so that you can get excited and if you want 
more information again head to Walters gardens.com   and you can read over and get um I know I didn’t 
tell planting zones I know that y’all I don’t have it with me right here I can’t remember there’s 
like 20 something and different varieties so sorry uh just head on over Walter Gardens they’ll 
take care of you I promise as always thanks so much for gring freak side y’all have a great 
day and we’ll see you in the next video bye friends