Last Day at the Garden Center: A Festive Farewell

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Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside  today we are going to uh spend the day here at the   retail Garden Center because it is our last day of  the 2023 season for the garden center to be open  

Now before you freak out don’t worry we are still  going to have five videos a week coming to you   every week no matter what uh and so if you don’t  see us check your Facebook or YouTube because  

We are here 5 days a week week also um if you  subscribe to especially the YouTube channel that   is the most reliable way to see the videos because  sometimes I know it can get a little chaotic so if  

You will just hit that subscribe button it is  completely free and that way you will turn on   some notifications every time we post a video you  will get notified WE Post like I said five a week  

Except for Sunday and Tuesday we will have a video  for you but it is the last day here at the Garden   Center so I thought thought it would be fun to  kind of take the day with us right go through  

The day see what it is like to be at the Garden  Center on a very uh fun festive end of season day   we have got a jam-pack day it is Saturday December  the 16th this is the longest that we have been  

Open um in the in the year for I think forever so  we’re we’re breaking some records today we have a   power planner Workshop that happens at 10:00 so  I have got all of my to tools and supplies here  

Ready to go for the workshop so I love it we’re  going to go through and let everybody kind of put   their hands on the power planners so we can teach  them educate them about what a power planner auger  

Is why they are fantastic why are they the only  ones that we use here at Creekside nursery and   then you know just how they can make life so much  easier in the garden so we will show you a little  

Footage of that but I love these stands that Greg  and the Gang at Power planner made for me oh my   goodness uh they are amazing so if you have a  power planner and you have some of the augers  

And you need some help as far as a organization  I’m trying to convince Greg and Johnny that they   need to start uh manufacturing these because  it’s really nice to have those all set up and   neat and organized wherever it is that you store  your power planners of course power Planters are  

The garden augers that are made 100% here in the  United States they are the highest quality very   strong steel uh we’ve never broken one we have  used them in our thick red clay soil and they   just make gardening so much easier so much more  efficient we actually planted the entire signature  

Garden using the power planner augers it is a  nice Frosty morning here at Creekside side you   can see that the signature Garden is doing quite  well uh after being quite Frozen for multiple   times the grass the side has just a lovely kind  of the uh nice silver icy Frosty look to it but  

Everybody is doing great here in the garden and  we’re just kind of you know on a whole pattern   right now for this space what we are doing today  is we have a lot of fun activities planned we’ve  

Got a lot of specials going on with it being the  last day we have got even some delicious uh hot   chocolate up there and we’ve got some cookies it  is uh just going to be a great day it is also you  

Can absolutely be planting shrubs and perennials  and trees we actually have some beautiful North   Pole um arbores over here I think they’re North  Poles um we’ll go check them out right quick   they’re going to go into a landscape so we have  a customer who is getting 16 of these guys Andrew  

Is going to go install them and they are just  absolutely these are sorry these are emal greens   so emal greens and North Poles from a distance  they look very similar but this is a wonderful  

Way to create that uh nice kind of privacy screen  these are beautiful plants like I said 16 of them   are going into the landscape and in fact um the  customer was actually a little worried he said you  

Know gosh it’s you know getting towards the end  of December I think it’s just too late to plant   these I believe he’s not originally from here um  he’s from a colder area and so we were like no  

No no no this is perfect this is the perfect time  to be planting so uh unless you’re you know so it   is a perfect time to be planting these so even if  you’re still holding on to some plants like me uh  

That you know we tend to collect some plants it  is a great time to go ahead and get them in the   ground both the trees and the shrubs um here we  have we’re not even open yet and so we’ve got a  

Nice little little fun little cookies and some  hot chocolate here for our sweet people that   come visit us and of course Alyssa Alyssa is our  resident uh she is the one that writes everything   look at that beautiful handwriting I tell you  it is just she does a great job on that so we  

Have um the windchimes still available that make  great gifts and the bird houses so there’s lots of   things here that are going on um we are expecting  it to be a a busy day even though it is a chilly  

Start we’ve noticed that in the winter time that  people don’t really start get going until about   10: or 11: so that is why we went ahead and move  the power PL Workshop till 10: cuz it is a little  

It’s a little Frosty out here uh we’ do still have  just a little bit uh left over of some beautiful   violas and we’ve got some Miz America mustards and  some KES and all sorts of various things you can  

See we’ve started kind of um moving some of the  shrubs back outside still a lovely selection of   unique stone availables these make great gift  Christmas gifts and um so much fun but it is   crazy to think that after today this greenhouse  and there’s an echo in here there hasn’t been an  

Echo in here since uh gosh I guess last January or  this past January so it is going to be after today   we are going to go ahead of course and Purge that  greenhouse because we have to sanitize it before  

We bring in uh fresh annuals which will be in  mid January that’s when our first plugs arrive   from Pleasant View Gardens so we will um we fill  up this greenhouse first because it is the retail  

Greenhouse so those are those early early annuals  we will have here and so what we have to do is   clean all that out sanitize everything and then  just keep it ready uh make sure all the heat is  

Still working that the um everything’s working and  that way when it comes to um mid January we can go   ahead and put those sweet little babies in there  now we’re walking over here to the Pines uh they  

Have still a beautiful selection of Aqua Poots  available so we have the aqua Poots are currently   buy one get one free so we have lots of options  available for our folks who are coming to visit   us today hopefully they will they have been taking  real advantage of this great bargain of course the  

Aquapots are the ceramic glazed um self-watering  containers this is a collaboration between PR and   winners um who does all the marketing and kind of  the distribution of it I guess you would say and   then Michael Carr who is the artist who designs  the pottery he designs the colors he designs um  

All the shapes and he designs the textures all of  that and then Jack Barnwell of course is the uh   wonderful landscaper who came up with the concept  so an aquapot if you don’t know just a real quick  

Overview here uh we’ve got one that you can see  is upright they do not have holes in the bottom   and that way they hold water so here’s an example  and you can see that it’s holding the water so it  

Will hold the water up to there’s a little drain  hole right here and then once the water gets to   that drain hole then of course it will drain out  so you can’t overfill these containers which is  

Fantastic then you have this insert that comes  right here here um this whole area will be full   of soil you push soil down into this um soil  tube and it actually has little slits on it  

So that the soil and the water come into contact  then you go ahead and plant it as normal um and   your water tube is right there so that way you  can take the hose put your hose right there fill  

It up until water squirts out the back and  there you go so lots of different colors I   especially love the blue and I think they call it  peacock which is like a brown it has a little bit  

Of purple in there just beautiful so if you’re  coming uh those folks who were coming today they   do have a great selection what is not sold will  be here of course come springtime so we are kind  

Of planning on it all depends on the weather but  right now uh mid-February will be when we reopen   and and oh my gosh it’s going to be here before  we know it so we will reopen mid-February weather  

Permitting uh because sometimes in February it  could be you know 60° or we could have an ice   storm or a snowstorm and be under some snow so  we will obviously keep you well updated on those  

Kinds of things and our schedule as we progress  to that uh but we’re going to take this time off   to just kind of get some projects done right  we still got the production Greenhouse we’ve   got to finish and then going into production and  producing all of the beautiful annuals the unique  

Stone still had a beautiful selection of this  making great Christmas gifts this too when you   come to see us in the early spring late winter  this is going to be a perfect time to go ahead   and start planting your containers and purchasing  them that way you can go ahead and start thinking  

About where you want it in your garden you can um  you know go ahead bu the plants all sorts of fun   things but lots and lots of options for you here  at Creekside so we’ve got some customers already  

Rolling in it is going to be a fun filled very  very jam-packed day I have a feeling and we’re   just going to go along for the ride together  so we’re going to take some footage of just  

Different events as the day goes on and then it’s  9:00 in the morning right now so I will see you   back at 3 3:00 this afternoon once the day is  over here at Creekside nursery and we will be  

Officially closed for the 2023 season all right  y’all enjoy the day I have no idea what’s going to I wanted to pop on here real quick and give a  little update on how things are going having  

A fantastic day aquapots are going out of here  loading up some in a truck behind us standing   here behind the barn because I wanted to show you  um some plants that we have put together for one   of our c customers and we have them separated  and organized by different flower beds so I  

Thought this would be fun for you to get some  ideas for your garden as you’re planning for   next year um of course depends on where you are  in the country here in the south I mean my gosh  

We can plant basically year round so if you’re  planning on creating a new flower bed or if you   want to redo one in your yard or you have new  construction who knows what the reason may be  

You just want to add a new flower bed to your  yard um so these are some ideas that might be   good plants to put together that we are putting  together for a customer so you can see we have  

This whole little selection of all of these plants  um right here on the back side of the nursery and   you might also kind of notice that they all have  different colored uh survey tape so everything  

That is bright orange goes in one bed then we have  a sha Garden that has red and then we have a green   green tape bed and then finally we over here in  the back we have a blue tape bed so let me just  

Let’s just start over here so this is a full sun  flower bed we have got uh We’ve Got the pugster   Blues back here we’ve got two of these are The  Pink Carpet yes the Perfecto Mundo Pink Carpet  

Aelas with a Fire Light tidbit there in the middle  actually sorry we have three of the pink carpets   I didn’t didn’t see that didn’t see that other one  because the pink carpet’s nice and low and then of  

Course the beautiful dianthus so this is a great  um and CCE has put it out in kind of the layout   that you could easily do it working of course  with your pugster are going to be your tallest  

In the back and these are only going to be 3T tall  y’all so this is going to be a very short bed so   it can be maybe it’s underneath a window maybe  it is near a sidewalk who knows right in front  

Of your porch um but this is going to have yearr  round interest because your dianthus of course is   going to be nice and green your aelas are green  and even your pugster blue butterfly bushes are   going to keep a lot of their foliage beautiful  full sun option for you and then moving down  

Here to the uh green bed we have some I believe  these were the s charm um either c charm or the   ever red low pedms I can’t quite see the tag  so definitely going to be your tallest ones  

In the back beautiful kaleidoscope aelas and  basically this is going to be an evergreen bed   everything here that you see is going to give you  um beautiful color year round you’ve got three of   the Fire Chiefs um these are those thas that are  just beautiful they’re not dead I promise they  

Just have that beautiful bronze color here in the  fall and winter and then it is the Perfecto Mundo   double purple and there are five of those as well  clear clearly they’re spaced not appropriate right  

None of these are U but you can see just kind of  how they are grouped together and like I said full   sun bed for this one as well Evergreen lots of  different kind of Interest would be a gorgeous  

Pairing together then we’re coming over here to  our shade people now we are missing one of the   Florida sunshines uh so there should be another  Florida Sunshine for this flower bed but the   Florida Sunshine does great in the shade it is an  Evergreen you get that beautiful chartreuse color  

It’s one of my favorite favorite shade shrubs ever  it is just a beautiful plant and then paired right   here beside of it is the ruby slippers Oakleaf  hydrangea now y’all it is here it is you know   mid December look at that beautiful red leaves on  it especially next to those Florida Sunshine oh  

My gosh gorgeous and then we’ve got some of the  ukuras we have a hydrangea this is a lance dance   Reba and that is going to be a macril hydrangea  right so nice big classic mop head blooms on it  

Will be uh pH dependent so depending on your soil  um will depend on the color and then for some fun   interest that I love this one of my favorite ferns  this is a Autumn Fern this is Brilliance is is  

The variety name of that so you’re going to have  everything in this flower bed is basically going   to be an evergreen except for your Let’s Dance  arba um hydrangea it is going to be obviously  

Deciduous it is right now and then even your Oak  Leaf this ruby slippers it will hold on to its   leaves for quite a long time but eventually they  will fall off but for a shade garden you’re going  

To still going to have lots of Interest even in  the winter with that and then last but not least   is a nice kind of cottage Garden look here and we  have a whole mix of things we do have um some more  

Laur pedum these are the C charms so these are the  C charms so that means the other ones are the ever   red you’ve got s charm L pedms you’ve got a Steady  As She Goes gardinia we have got the Niagara Falls  

Grass beautiful perennial grass right here then  we have got three day lies this is the sound   of my heart obviously your day llies are going  to be completely deciduous right they’re going   to die completely back like most perennials do  beautiful kind of purple and Peach flowers another  

Kaleidoscope ailia to bring in tie in those beds  we have pugster amethyst butterfly bush a Yen and   then we have um we have Yin here and then we have  yang right here A different kind of gardinia this  

Is the pillow talk and then a really fun upright  climber is the sensation honeysuckle y’all even in   mid to late December this plant is still Evergreen  and it is still producing flowers it has not been  

In the greenhouse it is hanging out here in the  24 19 degree nights and it is still blooming such   a great um fun interest that will give you some  vertical height we’ve got the boom chakal ladas   perennial geraniums and then we have monardas  more butterfly bushes and then one more um lur  

Pedum that kind of ties in I love how uh CC laid  this out we do this in our Gardens so you’ll have   one here and then you have two over here it’s  just a neat way to kind of separate but tie in  

The bed all together and then last but not least  we have another hydrangea and this is I’m trying   to look at the tag oh it’s not a hydrangea I’m  sorry that is a summerific hibiscus that is the  

Summerific edge of night so this is just something  to kind of give you an idea if you are looking to   create new flower beds um maybe just go back  and if that kind of peques your interest jot  

Down some of those names um but just also keep in  mind that if you’re going to be visiting Creekside   nursery and you need some help planning your beds  we absolutely would love to do that for you we can  

Help you um that’s what cc did here with Evelyn  and just went through and they talked it through   looked at Sun conditions looked at spacing and got  everything planned out you can uh send us an email   at orders gardening withc Creeks side.com if you  need some Landscaping help and we will send your  

Email in the right direction to the person who  needs it um and also you can just come on out to   the Garden Center come uh February you can bring  some pictures and some basic measurements and of  

Course we would love to help you all right now  what I know what we’re getting ready to do or   what they’ve started already doing is moving  um inventory from the greenhouse and we’re   starting to put put it out back where it belongs  on the shrub lot so the final Day festivities are  

Continuing the end of the day is here my friends  and that is a wrap on the 2023 season here at   Creekside Nursery in Dallas North Carolina I don’t  think we got any footage of since I talked to you  

About the different types of like the Landscapes  that we had back there that we had pulled uh it   just got to be a little bit of a crazy day we  were a little short staff today we’ve got some  

Uh folks who are not feeling well today so they  were not here and we were some busy Little Bees   getting set up torn down whatever you want to  call it it is Saturday afternoon I am tired  

Getting ready for the Winns let me show you what  we got done um we really got everything cleaned up   the all the plants outside of the greenhouse have  been put back on the shrub lot or the perennial  

Tables wherever it is that they belong because  that way we don’t have to worry about you know   wind knocking them over they’re all nice and  insulated and then look at the greenhouse it is   completely cleaned out it is empty it is ready to  be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized and then just  

Sit and wait for annuals that will be coming in in  less than two months Cece and I were both in here   um and she walked in and she was like oh and I was  like I know it’s kind of sad isn’t it and she goes  

It really is because we have had such an amazing  year and with fabulous customers fabulous visitors   fabulous staff we have had uh lots of fun lots of  memories have been made lots of beautiful plants  

Have been grown and moved to their permanent homes  with you sweet people and um it’s kind of a little   sad but you know that I’m I’m also rejoicing  that today is the last day uh for the season  

Because yeah it’s just you do this every weekend  right every week day in and day out and it just   becomes very routine and you’re used to seeing  all of your sweet regular people um we’re going  

To take a little break right even here and not too  much is terribly changed out on the pergola area   we started a little bit we’ll continue with this  you can see that nice splash of color the violas  

And things that are over there I may pull from  for from those for certain little projects if I   want to but what we’ll do as the season progresses  and as the weeks once the New Year comes and we’re  

All back here working we’ll take our perennials  and we’ll just load them up really close to one   another again that just helps the plants because  like tomorrow the storm that’s going to come   through we’re supposed to have some high winds so  it keeps everybody upright that way when it does  

Rain they get water because of course they can’t  get watered if they’re turned on their sides um   but everything is out here ready to go uh projects  we’ll have of course projects over the winter here   at the nursery because we want to keep things  fresh and neat and tidy and looking beautiful and  

Always switching something up here at the Garden  Center so when you come back in mid-February or   spring or summer it’ll be nice and fresh and clean  and nice environment for everybody to shop but we   have had an amazing year again cannot thank you  sweet people enough whether you have come to us  

Every weekend because we have those folks who do  that um we have people that travel an hour and   a half two hours away from us on a regular basis  and to come see us and to shop and those customers  

Are dear sweet friends because um we just have a  great relationship and this is just not a couple   this is multiple people or if you um came here  for the first time today and we got to chitchat  

Thank you or if you’ve never been to Creekside and  maybe you have done some online ordering we are so   appreciative maybe you haven’t come to Creekside  maybe you haven’t ordered from Creek Side maybe   you are just a great faithful uh supporter of our  videos we greatly greatly appreciate it so um all  

Of the love and well wishes and happy holidays and  all the holidays right merry Christmas happy New   Year all the things all the above thank you so  much and we wish you a very blessed and restful  

And peaceful season and um we’ll see you we’ll  see you back here before Christmas but uh it is   nice to know that this is kind of the the end  chapter for 2023 and projected date of opening  

Is the Saturday in February 16th or 17th whatever  that is on the calendar that is our projected date   of opening we’ll see how the weather holds out for  us but if you want to mark your calendar whatever  

That Saturday is you can mark your calendar we  already have food trucks that will be here that   have committed to being here that weekend two food  trucks not just one two uh more details to come on  

That but as always we so greatly appreciate you  thank you for all your love and support here at   the Garden Center in 2023 we look forward to an  amazing 2024 we’ll see you in the next video bye friends