Winter Landscape Refresh In Time For the Holidays

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Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside  today we are back at our church because we need to   do a little tidying up and make things look nice  and beautiful because Christmas is only a couple  

Of days away it is Christmas Eve Eve Eve I believe  it is and so we want to make sure everything looks   nice and pretty and attractive because we have  three different Christmas Eve services and of   course the church has tons of members that come  and celebrate Christmas here but also community  

Members so we want to make sure that this is  uh just a really nice attractive area because   Jenny has kind of neglected this flower bed this  year and and so we’re here to make it neat and  

Tidy I’ve got all of my sweet crew with me and  we’re going to walk through because if you’ve   not been in this flower bed before we’ve been  here I think one other time so just can kind of  

Give you an update obviously it is here at the  very end of December and um things are looking   I mean all things considered everything’s doing  great now here and I really promise y’all I did   not intend this when we were designing this bed  we have three Holy Grail Sumer rific hibiscus  

Right here when I say these plants love this  spot I am not exaggerating um this whole area   especially on this side of the bed gets intense  hot sun you have this massive brick wall you’ve  

Got sidewalk you have asphalt and the sun spends  a lot of time during the day right here so this   just radiates and bakes none of this is on  irrigation but these holy grils have been  

In the ground for 2 years now and just huge I  mean you can see that they are every bit of 4T   by 4T and they just Bloom and Bloom and Bloom  and bloom all summer long so um once I get out  

Of here Andrew is going to come through and just  cut them down to the ground for me so we’re going   to get rid of all of the Dead uh foliage up here  on the top so we’re going to cut these straight  

To the ground and then we just leave them alone  and they’ll come back as soon as the temperatures   start to warm up this is a Japanese maple that  has been here I’m it’s probably a and queen um  

It’s been here for years it is here we have some  of the desert Plains grasses these are perennial   grasses I’m not sure if we’re going to cut them  back today or leave them we’ll see kind of how it  

All looks when we get done now moving up through  here we have three of the pugster blue butterfly   bushes these two absolutely thrive in this area  what I’m going to do today is probably just come  

In and just clean it up just a little bit I’m not  going to do a severe prune this is not the time   to prune your butterfly bushes so I just might  take off some of the old Bloons again this is  

Kind of a game time decision y’all Jerry’s like  me why bother um because you can tell that they   are nice butterfly bushes these pugster will be  like a 3X3 and again love this spot because they  

Are just Bloom and Bloom and do great fire chief  arbites we’ve talked about this a ton with the   um the nursery tours y’all look at this these  are just phenomenal shrubs love that they are  

Evergreen they are soft they do really well you’ll  notice the one on the end has a little bit more of   that copper uh coloring to it because this just  talks about and speaks to how warm this area is  

We have had multiple nights of 19 low 20° but  these have not turned really that true coppery   color yet because they’re so insulated from all  of the heat radiating off of the bricks they  

Will turn it just takes them a little while in  this spot to do it but just we have five of them   right here love that evergreen look more of the  grass right and then these are distills Dums are  

A great evergreen shrub we use these as Foundation  plants right and they have that kind of that wider   arching Habit to them I probably will come in and  just gently prune these um just to make them look  

A little bit tidier they’re getting a little too  wild and gangly like look over here on this one   right I mean we’ve got my gosh that is every bit  of two feet right here and then this we just need  

To clean this up a little bit right neat and tidy  is the name of the game here against this Mass of   brick wall we have um these are Limelight primes  and while I love this hydrangea my idea for this  

Was that it would the Limelight primes are more  narrow and upright so I was thinking I don’t want   to cover the mission statement of the church I  was thinking that they would kind of come right  

Here and they would be good um but as you can see  these first two to three are tending to lean over   and it’s not the plant I don’t think I think it’s  more of a situational circumstance because of I  

Think the wind comes down and when we have those  big thunderstorms and you’ve got these beautiful   blooms the wind comes down and pushes them because  I trimmed them really good last year um like look  

At this you can come see look how much these  things grew from last year so so I pruned them   pruned them here and then look at all of that that  was this was last year’s growth right so in the  

Season the beginning of the summer they were nice  and straight and upright full of full of blooms   but inevitably those summer thunderstorms come  with those heavy winds and then they came back   the next Sunday and they were more leaning so it  bothers me nobody else has said anything about  

These but personally it bothers me because I  want them nice and straight and upright and   we have Limelight primes at the house and they’re  nice and tall and strong and sturdy but yeah it’s  

I don’t know if you got some ideas I’d love to  hear them now over here on this flower bed this   tends to be a little bit more of an interesting  sunlight situation because still gets lots of  

Good intense Sun here in the front but because  of the roof line and how the Sun goes as we go   further into the bed it gets more shade in the  afternoon have my absolute beloved yin and yang  

Viburnums right here I wanted to do a mixture of  Evergreen because obviously this is a this is one   of the main entrances to the church and so this  is a hi traic area so I want to keep that great  

Evergreen structure here yin and yang great easy  you’ll see that there is a little bit of color um   variation on some of the leaves I think that is  because of some Frost damage some freeze damage  

Mine at the house had been putting on New Growth  and then we had those 19 Dee night um and it kind   of fried a little bit they will be perfectly  fine come springtime they will flush back out  

And be great I am going to leave the yin Andy  Yang alone they’re nice and tight I don’t need   to come in here and prune them they are good what  I am going to prune this is driving me crazy is  

The guara so I have got this is the uh petite pink  the Carol petite pink from Proven Winners we sell   it as an annual but it’s technically a perennial  for us and they are dotted through the front of  

The flower bed between the yin and the yangs  and then the hydrangeas we’re cutting them to   the ground so all of that foliage that you can see  up here like this is it just looks ratty so all of  

This right here this is the guara it will be cut  completely down to the ground right now speaking   of how Dres we have in here this is little lime  punch no tidbit tidb Fire Light tidbit sorry I  

Was like this is not punch this is tidbit tidbit  is going to be smaller than um little lime punch   fire light tidbit you can see my gosh y’all look  at all of those blooms on this one plant they are  

Rock stars in this flower bed nice and strong and  sturdy see how they’re nice and upright they’re   not they’re not floppy at all so we’re just going  to come in here and do a nice little light pruning  

Do cut back by maybe 1/3 to a fourth and just tidy  up the plant that way I don’t have to worry about   it later on in the fall spring um coming over here  the center the showpiece of this bed is the this  

Is the dwarf Blue Atlas Cedar it is a hortsman  and this is a dwarf one this is the same variety   that we have right off of our front porch and my  gosh y’all she is he is doing great uh again none  

Of these beds are on F on irrigation uh they  get rainwater and that is it nice and strong   and sturdy beautiful blue color of course and it  looks really nice against the Florida sunshines   uh this is an alysium great evergreen shrub that  is for the shade because back here in the back  

Definitely in the shade for sure um and so they  are doing great again I’m going to come in here   we got a rogue limb right here I’m just going  to come in and prune it just down a little bit  

So we don’t have this kind of craziness happening  right here but they tend to have more of that free   form open habit on them deer are not a problem  here here at the church uh but if you do have  

Deer problem in your shade garden this would be a  great option for you because alysium is actually a   type of anise Licorice and so when you crush these  leaves you get a licorice smell to them um and so  

The deer tend not to like that so what we’re going  to do is we’re going to come start down on the end   I’m going to do some pruning like I said I’ve got  uh a great crew here that’s going to help me get  

Cleaned up and we’re going to lay fresh mulch down  on this entire bed by pruning cleaning up getting   rid of debris um any kind of trash that has blown  in here and then putting down fresh mulch it is  

Going to make this just pop for Christmas so uh  that’s what we’re going to do all right my friends   many hands make light work because my gosh we just  knocked this thing out in about an hour hour and  

A half and it looks amazing and fantastic never  underestimate the power of just doing a little   bit of tidying up a little bit of pruning and a  fresh layer of mulch not one plant was planted  

Today we just tidied up and added that fresh mulch  interestingly enough this is the same um The Mulch   that is in this bed was the original Mulch and  so we did that it would have been 2 years ago  

It’s just a hair over 2 years that that original  mulch was in there and that’s the power of putting   in a nice high quality mulch it I think it was  a hardwood mulch um and we did it super thick  

Because we knew that it’s not on irrigation  um high traffic visibility area so we put it   in nice and thick here we go two years later and  we’re just coming back in to add um a fresh layer  

Of mulch but you and the birds are already coming  we’ve got blue birds and all sorts of little birds   trying to come back in and and explore so that’s  really fun but you can see here all I did the one  

Alysium on the far left that one Rogue limb that  was just really super tall I just cut it back and   then I did not touch the rest of those alysium we  like that free form Habit to them come springtime  

If I want to come in and give them a little shape  that would be a good time to do it because then   they’re going to be putting on New Growth they’re  not going to be putting on New Growth um in the  

Winter so I just wanted to tidy them up just a  little bit so it was literally one limb off of   five of those plants hortsman did not touch at all  and then the Fire Light tidbits you can see not a  

Big prune all the blooms are off they have that  look how nice and strong and sturdy those plants   are it is just great that’s why we love that fire  light tidbit it is a just a great great performer  

And then the guara I cut down to the ground and um  Andrew and Ryland they didn’t cover them up for me   so you can just see a little bit of stalks right  there I have found for us that guara you’ll keep a  

Low mat of Evergreen foliage it’s not technically  an evergreen but you’ll still see kind of the some   of the foliage there so they’re dotted in through  there that you can see and then yin and yang did  

Not touch at all just left it alone so neat and  tidy and all clean we were just all sitting here   and we just love this color combination of that  alysium back there in the back that just bright  

Chartreuse and especially against that dark brick  and that dark in and then oh my gosh that hortsman   the blue on that we struggle here um where we  are in the pedmont of North Carolina with um blue   Evergreens and it’s not anything it’s the Heat  and the humidity trying to keep that blue color  

On your Evergreens is really really difficult you  go up to the mountains of North Carolina you know   3,000 something elevation they’ have a whole  different selection of plants that would Thrive   up there with that blue green foliage um but the  the hzman is one that my gosh it can handle our  

Temperatures and heat and humidity no problem  so this bed is done over here um in the flower   bed you can see that we went ahead and got those  um hydranges are nice and pruned now obviously  

Overall I still pruned a third to a fourth off but  the plants are just bigger themselves and you can   really see now like the lean it’s just W I got to  figure that out it’s going to drive me crazy and  

Then the disum I did prune it but hopefully when  somebody walks by they’re not going to know oh   my gosh this plant was just pruned I still tried  to leave a lot of the natural um Whimsy to it I  

Just took off those ones that were like crazy long  and you cut them just back in here so like you can   see um these two were cut right here so bringing  them in but then allowing those smaller branches  

To keep have having that little arching Habit to  them um it just gives it a more natural look and   not that severe pruning um on that grasses we left  we’ll take care of those in the spring you just  

Come in and just gather them up like a ponytail  and whack them off and then the Florida not excuse   me the Fire Chiefs are completely left alone did  not touch those as well and really there’s no  

Point in there’s no need to prune these guys um  somebody had come through in the spring and did   a little haircut on them and I about had a heart  attack so that was the only thing they touched  

So it’s kind of understood that nobody touches  this bed except for us um a little control freak   on that end of my part and then butterfly bushes  we end up leaving alone uh yeah and then you can  

See that the habiscus have quote disappeared we  did last this time last year Randy and I came and   spent a morning here and put in daffodils so they  are there are tons of daffodils from this part of  

The bed all the way down the sidewalk here in  front of these crepe myrtles um we didn’t when   we came to do the flower bed we did not do this  part because this part was undisturbed we had had  

A construction at the church and so this was area  was all torn up so we worked on that and left this   because there’s Chamas in here San with Chamas  and then of course the the crate myrtles so we  

Just left that alone but I had to come in here and  do some daffodils and my gosh last year they well   actually this year they were phenomenal they were  so pretty uh because the way we come to church we  

Come um we approach from this direction and you  come over over the hill and coming over the hill   all of a sudden one Sunday was like boom and  there was this bright yellow right here oh just  

Made my heart Happy um so they will come back  up and do great um this coming spring but yeah   never underestimate again the power of a little  pruning and a fresh mulch job man it is just   like fantastic I love it so hopefully this will  be a nice welcoming environment and a landscape  

For our uh all of our sweet friends coming here  to the church um with this Christmas Eve and as   always we so appreciate you y’all have a great day  and we’ll see you in the next video bye friends