Proven Winners Signature Garden: What Lies Ahead in 2024?

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Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside  today I am going to practice what I have been   preaching to you we’re going to talk about the  plans that we have here for the signature Garden  

In 2024 planting season is only going to be just  a few short months away is going to be here before   we know it so I have been planning and thinking  of this space for quite a while so I want to share  

Those plans with you today so of course here we  are standing at um what will be the entrance to   the signature g Garden don’t fret my little pets  we are going to have a nice pathway a walkway a  

Little foot bridge over I know some of you have  been concerned about that um but here is going to   be the entrance to the signature Garden um and  so we have these two gorgeous raised beds BMS  

Elevated Gardens whatever you want to call them  on each side of the the entryway they are the   exact same size this whole whole entire um formal  space of the signature Garden is very uh balanced  

It is very even and so we’re going to focus on  this area first and then we will transition to   the outling flower beds of the signature Garden  still part of the signature Garden but they are  

Going to be a little bit more um natural relaxed  kind of in that classic Creek Side style of the   planting we do where you can see these River  Rocks there is this is to catch water because  

Of course we talk about nothing is flat here at  Creek Side so this is like a Dry Creek bed where   water can go through and then be channeled out  you were with us just was that it’s not even been  

Maybe not even a month ago uh the beginning of  December where we planted all of these in tulips   so this is the super collider blend which is a  bright red bright yellow and then a Deep Purple   we’re going to have a beautiful spring here so  everything from the boxwoods down to the rocks  

Are those super collider blend of tulips now this  summer as soon as the Tulips are done and we have   them pulled out it will be close to being time  to put in the summer plantings we have planned  

That we are going to do a mass planting on this  side of both of the beds the super tunia Vista   jasberry it is the annual of the Year from Proven  Winners so we are just going to have a huge impact  

Of jazzberry basically at maturity it will be  kissing the boxwoods and it will be overhanging   the Rocks a bit I’m thinking what we will do is we  will do a double row that is just staggered that  

Way we have great coverage and they will just  fill in and be stunning so when you’re coming   in and you first see the signature Garden you’re  going to have just a huge mass planting of that   Vista jazzberry all along right here that is one  of those key components is when you are wanting  

To grab people’s attention especially from a  distance do that monoculture planting meaning   mono meaning one culture plant you’re doing the  same plant in Mass it is going to make a huge   statement and grab people’s attention as we come  down this year we have of course the Sprinter box  

Woods and then we have little lime punches right  here at maturity and how we’re going to develop   these Gardens is that the sprinters will grow um  and we will maintain them as a hedge so they will  

Be a solid hedge coming through nice and manicured  and then the little lime punches will get that 3   to 5T tall and wide so at maturity the hydranges  will be kissing the boxwoods that’s going to take  

A couple of years really about three years of  course to get to your more uh maximum size but   so what we’ll do this coming year is we’re going  to plant an annual down the center I do not want  

An annual that’s going to take up too much room I  don’t want it to come over and crowd my boxwoods   or crowd my hydranges and impede their growth  so I’m not going to do like a colus I’m GNA do  

Something more petite whether it maybe is like the  unplugged pink Salvia or um the angelonia like the   angel face Wedgewood blue would be absolutely  beautiful right here so something that is more   upright and not very wide then on the front side  this is where Jenny gets to play and have tons  

Of fun because the front side of these elevated  Gardens from the um hydrangeas kissing the edge of   the wall and they’ll both be planted the same is  I’m going to choose somewhere around that you know   five to seven to nine uh different types of plants  and create a mixed planting so those beautiful  

Annuals um I’m definitely going to be using some  saffron fch I can almost guarantee that there will   be some uh of the superbena Pink Cashmere will be  in there um maybe we do some selenia Bonas a colus  

A grass right maybe I do Skyrocket grass all sorts  of different fun ideas caladiums right so I will   pick my anywhere from five to nine plants that  I’m going to use and then I will plant those and  

Repeat that same pattern all the way down through  both flower beds that way when you’re looking at   it from a distance it’s cohesive it’s balanced  but yet it’s interesting it’s not just one plant   in Mass like we’re doing on the other side to grab  people’s attention so for me that’s the fun part  

And it could be that it is more of a bit of a game  time decision as I see how the plants are growing   and developing um and that’s just something that  fun that we do uh a little update as you can see  

The saw that we put down man it’s doing great  it might be even time getting close to be for   a little uh a little trim a a little haircut what  we’re going to do is cuz I know people everybody  

That’s a great thing about gardening there’s all  different aspects right people are curious about   how we’re going to maintain the grass we will have  we’re going to get a push mower and the mower will   either we’re going to mulch it bag it because  clearly we don’t want a lot of grass clippings  

To be thrown into the flower beds and then we  will come back and we are maintaining we’re   going to start first see how this works and we’re  going to maintain our edges with like the trimmer   we do not have any metal edging stone edging  anything that is keeping these hard lines we  

Are going to maintain that first because even  if you put metal edging down you still got to   come back with the trimmer and like clean it up so  that’s what we’re going to do at some point maybe  

We want to change who knows but sod is doing great  all of the shrubs and the perennials they too are   doing quite nicely we just got an absolute Deluge  of water in what 36 hours we got seven inches of  

Rain my rain gauge seven inches of rain and it was  not clearly it was not a slow and steady rain it   came down in torrential downpours so everything is  doing quite nicely but you can see we still have  

Some water right here so that kind of gives us an  idea of how water is flowing and how we need to   take care of some things um in those areas so you  might notice that but all everybody’s doing great  

Right they’re hanging in there we have had some  really cold temperatures they’re doing well now   on the inner four beds here these are all going  to be our annual planting beds have some really   fun plans with those before we hit that we going  talk about the fountain so the Fountain of course  

Right now has some really sweet purple violas  in here and then we planted tulips in this one   as well this is misc confection misc confection  blend is um a lovely it starts out of soft yellow  

And then it turns to a creamy white and then a  nice rich pink we have a sweet little honeybee   who is visiting the violas so that creamy white  yellow with the pink coming up in these purple  

Violas will be great again once those are done  we’ll pull all of them out when it’s time to   pull them out and we’re going to do another Mass  planting here of the brand new super tunia hoopla  

Vivid Orchid that is a mouthful to keep all those  words in the right order so hooply vivid Orchid   is that new one on the market for 2024 so you  can get it as well but it is very much um a  

Similar raspberry color as the jazzberry except  it has a really wide white margin all the way   around so we are going to do again Mass planting  nothing but the hoopla Vivid Orchid will be here  

At the base of the fountain and and uh fill in  this area quite nicely to go with that on the   flower beds here we have the curve you’ll notice  that we’ve got our unique stone benches they are  

Going to end up right here in the grass in the  curve of the bed of the grass right here so you   can sit and look at the fountain and all the other  areas of the um of the garden but we are going to  

Come back and in the it’ll probably be this will  be late April early May because we need to wait   for the temperatures to get nice and warm we’re  going to have a mass planting of caladiums right  

Here and that will be the same cadium in all four  curves of these flower beds I have two different   ones that I have options that we’re going to get  two different types of caladiums that way I can  

Uh see exactly which one pairs the best with the  hoopla Vivid Orchid because when I was talking to   my friends at Proven Winners um and I was letting  them know that I wanted to do these caladiums I  

Said I need one that pairs beautifully with the  hoopla Vivid Orchid so I have two options that uh   I will choose from and see just how the colors go  together but I think that would be just beautiful  

Just this nice big thick row of caladiums right  here because of course caladiums are amazing low   maintenance plants that do really well in our heat  and humidity here in North Carolina a Zone 8A and   again it’ll make a mass planting Mass impact  because all four of these beds while they’re  

Going to be planted similar and they’re going to  blend together they are not going to be planted   identically so by putting that exact same cadium  in all four beds in the same spot it’ll bring   uniformity and tie these beds together so what  am I going to put in here well glad you asked  

What I was going to put in here so in these beds  of course uh we imagine you have a bench you’ve   got caladiums right here and um we’ve got a lot  of real estate where we can put these annuals so  

In every single bed we’re going to do a different  rocking Salvia there are four different colors in   that rock and Salvia series and I really want to  highlight those plants because they are just such   wonderful performers and just go all season long  they are going to be of some good height to them  

Right because those Rock and salvas are beautiful  so I will have them predominantly in the center   of the flower bed not that I’m going to have a  necessarily a straight line of them but there will  

Be multiples in here we’re also going to have some  of the purple fountain grass so just a beautiful   nice Whimsy it’ll complement that rock and Salvia  quite nicely so we’ll have that we’ll have a whole   mix of different varieties of super Tunas whether  it is the super tunia uh Vista bubblegum right or  

Maybe it is super tunia mini Vista Indigo uh  mini Vista white there are so many different   possibilities and options out there that we’re  going to use colus the colorblaze colus uh we have   of course the new Cherry drop this year which  I’ve told you before does great in containers  

But it also makes a wonderful ground cover we’ll  have those the double up Bonas I adore the Bonas   from Proven Winners whether it is the double up or  the Sure Fire bonan they both are just um you’re   looking for a high performing low maintenance  plant that bugs don’t like you can’t go wrong  

With the Bonas uh vermillionaire vermillionaire  is one that we always have in our garden because   it attracts the hummingbirds so nicely so we have  the salvas that the hummingbirds go nuts over and   then you put in some vermillionaire here and  there then they’re really going to go crazy  

And then of course the patunas hummingbirds  love patunas as well so lots of different fun   plans but if you watched just when we planted  the shrubs and The Perennial beds I’m going to   use that same um thought process cess here where  the beds all blend together but each one will  

Be different and unique because this is a proven  winers signature Garden I it is my uh my joy and   my I think my responsibility to properly display  these plants so that you can see how they perform  

And hopefully give you some ideas and inspiration  then to take to your garden and Implement them on   whatever level that may be even if it’s just that  you see one plant you’re like oh my gosh I love  

That plant well then you add it to your garden in  whatever fashion that you want that’s the idea of   this garden now behind at the back of the garden  we didn’t go over this a ton it was a little bit  

Of a last minute kind of decision is we put an  extra flower bed here in the back because we kind   of wanted to tie in um the rest of the garden so  we did um a a nice long kind of a narrow strip and  

This is probably I don’t know what maybe three and  a half I don’t even know that it’s 4 feet at the   absolute most it would be 4 feet wide but down  each side we did another exact planting of the  

Same plant this is the Glitters and glows viburnum  they are going to be really fun obviously they are   deciduous but they are going to be in that 4ot  range for us and that means that they’re going   to give some nice height uniformity to the  Garden so when you’re looking at it from um  

At the entrance you’ll see this nice hedge back  here now we have plenty of room between um the   different plants right now we still have a tulips  we got tulips Galore y’all so in here is the same   misc confection so we have misc confection in  the fountain we have misc confection here and  

We actually have misc confection in the curves  where those colle Lums are going to go so it’s   going to be a great spring um so right now these  beds are filled with tulips come when it’s time  

Late spring when it’s time to put in um our  our summer annuals then we will plant this as   well with some sort of low growing annual haven’t  decided exactly on what we’re going to plant here  

Yet we could easily do like the sh if I wanted to  do Shu fires they’ll get some height to them so   maybe I don’t do sues maybe I do double UPS maybe  I do um I don’t know I want to do something fun  

And interesting and unique and different that  maybe people don’t think about I could easily   do a blue my mind vabulous love that which would  pair really nicely with the Glitters and glows so   there’s lots of different options and as I tell  you all the time this is the perfect time to be  

Dreaming and planning so that is what I will as  I’m walking here through this with you I can sit   here and think okay I need to figure out for  sure exactly what I’m going to plant between  

Glitters and glows so when it is a game time and  ready to go we have a plan when we were planting   the formal space of the signature Garden we came  over here and developed this flower bed because  

That has always been Jerry and uh my desire is  to create this space as Gardens long before we   were ever a nursery well I guess we were a nursery  um but ever long before proven winners came to us  

Before they ever came and said we want you to do  a signature Garden it has always been our Dream   to develop this as a type of like Botanical type  garden and so this is nothing new it was just a  

Great confirmation for us when Proven Winners came  to us and said would you consider turning this   into a signature Garden we were very honored and  so um it was just it was a full circle moment for  

Sure so our whole desire for many many years is  to create Gardens throughout this entire area and   that is what we’re going to do however is it all  going to be ready and perfect you know come May  

Of 2024 no not at all because that’s what Gardens  are they’re constantly changing and and adapting   and and moving and you’re switching things out and  you’re growing that is a garden so this flower bed  

Is the beginning of that in here it comes from um  we have these be beautiful tulip poppers that have   been here oh my gosh for ages the all these trees  here are volunteers nobody planted them this the  

Good Lord planted them and they are here so what  we have here um in this flower bed right now is   just shrubs shrubs and then we have a goo tree  we will add in perennials come the springtime  

Our friends at Walter’s Gardens they are always so  very generous and send us gorgeous perennials that   we can use in our Gardens so we will add those  um various perennials in here come springtime  

But in this flower bed the idea is to give yearr  round interest you can see that there are a lot   of evergreen shrubs in here we’ve got beautiful  uh lore petalon in the back which will get nice  

And big gardinas my absolute favorite gardinas  we have we are North Carolina of course we have   to have aelas so we’ve got Perfecto Mundo aelas in  here hydrangeas roses of Sharon um hibiscus right   so lots and lots of various shrubs of different  heights and different textures different Bloom  

Times lots of hopefully interest and inspiration  for you so we’re going to take this idea of what   we have and then we’re going to bring it around  to the rest of the gardens we are going to be uh  

Hosting the wedding of our Alyssa Alyssa is an  employee of ours um just absolutely precious and   she and her fiance Nick are going to be getting  married end of May this is where the ceremony  

Is going to take place we have a little bit of  work to do but thankfully we have till the end   of May so this is where the ceremony is going to  take place um and so we have begun to develop and  

Cleaning out like we did over there we’re going  to do down here so you can see that this is kind   of the natural this is what happens along a Creek  in the South we have got uh volunteer we’ve got  

Holly trees we have got Briar Galore dear Heavens  we’ve got Briars and we have got grape vine so we   have got um this grap Vine that I want to show  you is huge so we’re going to come in here and  

We’re going to clean out the underbrush and we’re  going to plant this in in that same style that we   did over there um let’s see come over here Jerry  I want to show you this because do you see this  

Right here right here so this that whole twine  right here this whole looks like a Crooked Tree   that is a grape vine so Wild Grape Vine that is  coming in we’ve got some type of looks like bamboo  

To me I don’t know what it is so we have got a a  lot of cleaning up to do right here and maybe it   is is that we come in and we clean it up and we  just have to maintain it the first year because  

Grape Vine’s going to come back if that is some  kind of like crazy weird bamboo that has sprung up   then we obviously have to get rid of that and the  Briar but the idea is that this Garden is going  

To continue through here because right you were  with us last week when we then planted over here   the um kind of the the mixed screen of the North  Poles and the hydranges we’ve got limelights down  

There on the bottom we’ve got incrediballs up  here so all of this is going to tie in together   right and then we will develop as time goes on  um this whole entire Hill is still our property   and this is a beautiful um opportunity to do  shade Gardens because this is very very shady  

Um especially the deeper you go into the the hill  and the woods obviously the more shade we get so   this will be a wonderful area for us to develop  that Woodland garden with tons of beautiful shade   um loving plants so lots of options but we know  just know that there is endless opportunities  

There are endless number of projects that are  going to be happening uh here in the gardens   and then of course we have the pond so our pond is  a Springfed Pond the spring basically originates   underneath the base of that holly tree and we  created this Pond out of necessity to keep this  

Entire Nursery from flooding my dad um years and  years ago farmed this land and so he had to try   to drain that spring direct that water and um over  time he stopped farming this area when we got the  

Property to build the nursery the entire bottom  land was bog I mean you could not do anything so   we created and had um the pond dug so it captures  all the spring water and then there is a um a pipe  

That catches any overflow um and then pipes it out  so this is a clay bottom Pond and and it is all   the rocks that you see are off of this property  so we want to clean this up develop it and plant  

Gardens all the way around it because again this  is just a nice peaceful area to come and sit and   we have different all sorts of different kinds  of sun we’ll get like full sun we can get shade  

We can get part sun you name it there are lots of  options uh for Gardens and very diverse planting   in here we have areas of signature Garden that  are extreme hot hot sun more shaded areas there’s   a little bit of everything for every Garden here  at Creekside nursery and then lastly we’re going  

To come over here um share with you some uh plans  that we have over here is that on this portion of   of the nursery we have of the property we have  where kind of where the benches are this is is  

Another area that uh can stay historically damp  because there is a yet another spring that is   popping up from here and this is going to be  a beautiful area where we’re going to develop   more of that Wetland Garden so I’m going put like  summerific hibiscus in here um bottle rocket all  

Sorts of different of those plants that love  The Damp conditions uh button bushes and um   scentlandia all sorts of great things right that  thrive in with damp feet so this is going to be   a great little fun area that we have to develop  um in the coming months and years as always so  

We’ve got uh as always lots of work to do but  it’s very fun and it’s very exciting if you’re   in the area we would love for you to come by of  course the nursery is going is set to reopen uh  

Saturday February the 17th we’ve already got food  trucks lined up we’re going to have a whole whole   great spring ahead of us but if you’re in the area  beginning February 17th and Beyond we would love  

For you to stop by of course you can just come and  walk the gardens and get lots of great inspiration   all of the plants will have identification on  them people have asked about that so when you’re  

Walking through the gardens you will know exactly  what dayy that is what baptisia that is um and so   there will be no question as to what it is it will  be clearly marked for you so that you can see it  

And if you enjoy it and you like it and you want  to add it to your garden of course we’d love to   help you take care of that as well um but yeah  it’s an exciting time it’s a very wet time here  

In the South we always have very historically wet  Winters and so uh to have that 7 inches of rain   while it was uh slightly unusual it was also not  like crazy I mean this is just kind of what we’re  

Used to uh we are in mud season here in North  Carolina as always we hope you have found this   fun informative and inspirational y’all have a  great day we’ll see you in the next video bye friends