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Creekside Nursery
181 Pine Hollow Dr
Dallas, NC, 28034

Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside  and welcome to the first nursery tour of 2024   Tada we are here uh so we are standing in front  of the signature Garden because uh two videos  

Ago I told you that we were going to get the sign  installed we just got it done this morning look   at it isn’t she a be there we go all nice and  hung the copper cap is set to arrive tomorrow  

So as soon as it arrives we will get that put  on but yes so we have our official sign for the   signature Garden um very very exciting the gardens  when you come to the nursery because our opening  

Day is Saturday February the 17th that means  this Saturday you can come see us we will be   open for the 2024 season here in Dallas North  Carolina for the first couple of weeks will be   open on Saturdays um and then we will move to  our Wednesday through Saturday schedule from 9:  

To 3:00 make your plans we’re going to be open  y’all if it’s a Wednesday through a Saturday we’re   going to be open I love you dearly but you don’t  need to send me a message hey are you going to be  

Open on this date if it’s a Wednesday through a  Saturday we’re going to be open from 9:00 to 3:   we were just in here the other day cleaning up the  signature Garden getting it ready for opening day  

So we got the sign hung since then and and we got  the pathway finished Andrew was working on that   so that is complete the gravel looks like it’s  a different color simply because it’s new it’s  

Supposed to rain uh for the next couple of days so  it’ll get all washed in but you have a nice smooth   path as you walk across into the signature Garden  I know that some people are very technical and  

You’re like how you just blocked your path of your  water how what in the world no we didn’t we have   um two what 6in pipes 4in pipes two 4in PVC pipes  that go under there that um will catch normal  

Water flow now when you had that historic flooding  and I say historic it been four years since we had   that kind of flooding uh nothing’s going to stop  that kind of water but this will work and stop you  

Know collect any water and shoot it on the other  side so that is done so when you come see us just   hop on over just walk on in and enjoy it and help  yourself sit on the bench and take a look at all  

The plants also when you come we’re going to have  um I suspect probably just about only on Saturday   February the 17th we’re going to have these  available and I say we’re probably only going  

To have it for this one day is because they sold  out in less than 24 hours on the website what am   I talking about we’ll come on back here my friends  um here we have and this is why they’re back here  

Here in the back this is the pette of the aqua  poot inserts these are the inserts that you use   for a traditional pot right it does not have to  be an aqua pot this can these inserts turn your  

Traditional pottery into an aqua pot so we ordered  from Proven Winners we’re ordering them straight   from Proven Winners we had a pallet for the online  store and we have a pallet for our retail store  

The pallet that was online sold out in less than  24 hours I’ve already had people asking me if we   have it here at the nursery we do so if you want  these you need to come on Saturday February the  

17th and get them we have tried to get more from  Proven Winners so far we are unsuccessful because   they seem to be running out of them um so if we  can get our hands on some more we’re we’re on  

The list we’re on the list to get some more from  premum winners just know this is what I have and   when they’re gone they’re gone they just don’t  buy one right and that what Jerry said they just  

People just don’t buy one right people are buying  three four five six at a time because they want to   turn in their traditional pottery into aquapots  so good point they’re not just buying one people  

Are buying multiples of those so come see us we  will have them available if we get them back in   stock um we will let you know so that is a great  thing on the website if you see a product whether  

It’s a plant or the aquapot light insert or felos  hat whatever the case may be if it’s out of stock   there’s a button right there on that product page  that says notify me when available click on that  

You put your email in we will notify you when  that specific item comes back into stock that   way you’ll get an email says hey guess what the  aquapot light insert is now back in stock order  

It then and then that way you will uh go ahead  and get it on Saturday February the 17th um we   obviously going to be open we have Bolton’s food  truck it’s going to be here Bolton’s curbside  

Cookery hands down best burgers best onion rings  best food you’ve ever had in your mouth they are   delicious sweet people great food they’re going  to be here in food junkie food junkie homemade   donuts y’all mhm that’s right so they’re going to  be here this is the perfect time to go ahead and  

Start thinking about shrubs you know me I have  been planting basically all winter long I still   have plants sitting up in the Woodland Garden  beside the chicken coop I have got hydrangeas   that need to go in the ground like I’m placing  them out and thinking about where I want to put  

Them it is a great time to put your hydranges in  the ground it is a great time to put a shrub in   the ground we got a zelas right here there’s tons  of different um hyd Stranges we’ve got two little  

Um leftover I don’t know if we’ve got any more of  these I think we have some more up on production   it’s one of my all-time favorite shrubs the Yen  and yang viburnum there’s two there’s Yen viburnum  

Yang viburnum love these the gardinas the Roses of  Sharon we’ve got um Pearl Glam right all of these   roses yes my gosh y’all we just did a video last  week I think it was time starts to run together  

For me um on pruning your roses these have all  been trimmed so we have like the drift roses low   and wide covered in New Growth I mean they are  popping out um we have got of course The Proven  

Winners we’ve got their rise ups which can either  be a shrub roast or it can be a climbing roast   we’ve got like the oo easy Italian ice we have got  just oh my gosh this is um reminiscent pink like  

Look new growth popping out we’ve got reminiscent  Coral we’ve got kma we’ve got rise up am berness   I mean you’ve got all sorts of different ones in  here it is a great time to plant roses I know when  

I get be root roses from David Austin I get them  like in late January early February go ahead and   get them in the ground the roses for me my roses  tend to start blooming in March so like March into  

April we’ll go ahead and get some flowers on these  so this would be a great time to add them to your   garden of course just tons of different shrubs  right we have everything you can imagine just  

Know that this is the time optimally here in the  Southeast that you can be adding to your landscape   we say fall into winter and then coming out of  winter going into spring because the the key is  

You want to plant these shrubs before the heat of  the summer hits it is much easier for this shrub   to go from a container into the landscape you’re  going to have lots of good root growth before the  

Summer heat hits and that’s what is key um and  really important in the success of your garden   so if you need help come on out we’ll help you for  sure lots of different options we even have you’re  

Like why are you selling me an empty pot it’s not  an empty pot this is the summer riic hibiscus uh   somebody’s going to ask the green that’s the  slow relase fertilizer so we added everybody  

A nice shot of fertilizer um for cyia over here  y’all if you want a load of spring color you need   for cyia we have the showoff sugar baby and we  have show off what Jerry is showing you all of  

Those buds are going going to be the most bright  yellow big bell shaped flowers so this these whole   stems are going to be covered growing up here  we always call them yellow Bells because they   are just absolutely covered show off sugar baby  is going to be your petite one and then show off  

Of course is going to be nice and big you want  to prune your Foria immediately after they bloom   so like we have one Rog Lim that’s really long I  want to let this Bloom first and then I can come  

In here and cut it back so for cyas we’ve got the  sensation honeysuckle your butterfly bushes you   name it this is also a great time because I mean  it is mid-February right and we get a lot of folks  

Coming in um maybe they don’t need shrubs per  se or they just may may need one or two but what   they do need is to go ahead and stock up on their  fertilizers their potting soil the compost pine  

Bark fines all of those things they’re getting all  of their supplies ready for the upcoming season so   all of that will be available of course the land  and sea is is out right here don’t worry we got  

Pallets of it hanging out in production so we will  bring those in all right let’s um before we go in   the greenhouse and tease you I also want to show  you these are always such huge Sellers and they  

Sell out pretty quickly in the season because  because they are so popular what I am talking   about are the strawberry planters the succulent  Planters whatever you want to call them from   Michael Carr the first time I saw these I was like  we got to have them and every year we sell out  

So fast every year we order more and more and we  still sell out fast these are great so what they   are um Michael Carr is the designer of these he’s  also the one that that designs the aquapots and so  

This is his version of a strawberry planter  in the center this will hold a gallon right   so whether you want to do an annual or perennial  whatever this will hold an a gallon and this holds  

The perfect Grande Size so you’ve got 1 2 3 4 5 6  7even eight you’ve got eight smaller holes around   it you could really put anything you want to you  can put it in full sun my per my personal one at  

The house has the simp vums in them and they are  gorgeous I leave it out year round and it does   great I also created one here at the nursery in  the pines and I put um petite hostas in it so each  

One has a different hosta so there you go you can  do sun you can shade you can leave them out year   round because it’s a traditional pottery and it  can handle um the cool temperatures all right now  

Let’s get a shot of spring right quick and let’s  go inside as we pass by we we have the amsonia   this is a storm cloud an amazing perennial we have  moved it from the greenhouse out here to try to  

Slow it down because amsonia is going to be one  of your earliest perennials to flower and um it’s   called storm cloud because it has really almost  near black stems as it comes out of the ground  

And then as it gets taller it turns more green has  gorgeous true blue flowers on it but amsonia oh my   gosh love this so we brought it out to make it  slow down some um I think y’all are with us well  

I mean we just pted this up this year that’s the  beautiful thing about the great uh root stock from   Walters Gardens all right come on in my friends I  wish we had smell a vision because this nesia is  

Smelling amazing um this is the aromance Mulberry  I had somebody I posted some pict pictures and   somebody asks they’re like is that not too early  for this plant to bloom no it’s not this is what   this plant does aromance Mulberry the nesia is  a cool weather plant it loves the cool weather  

It is one of the very first ones to bloom so you  have the Mulberry and then you come down here and   you have the sensia coconut Nas Bloom early and  they bloom for a long time so this is not like  

A perennial like that amsonia it’ll bloom once  in the here and then it’s done this just keeps   on going and going and going and it has a really  nice fragrance to it like as soon as you walk in  

The greenhouse you can smell it also look at that  white KN is that not beautiful white night sweet   alysum is such a beautiful plant I mean nice nice  happy plant look at that look and it’s a trailer  

It is a sweet alysum so it does have a lovely  fragrance to it as well a very sweet fragrance   so if you don’t like white maybe you want to go  with Violet so this is violet KN which is has a  

Really nice rich deep purple flower CeCe took a  picture of a caliber COA that was blooming I’ll   see if we can try to hunt it down um the osteos  will be next probably to bloom the osteop sperms  

Will be next here we have all the patunas um and  this is just the beginning sampling of course of   the annuals this is not all of the annuals this  is just this is just a to wet your appetite my  

Friends but all the new ones right the hoopla  theid Orchid saffron fch is in here somewhere   um we’ve got this is honey we’ve got jasberry in  here we’ve got um all of those of course patunas  

That you love and adore are here if you want  to buy the Ang uals when you come on Saturday   I’m not going to stop you just know if you don’t  have a protected area for them you might be buying  

Them again so just kind of keep that in mind um  it is I want to put that nesia out so badly but   I’m not going to do it because I know I see like  some 27 degree nights in our future and I’m just  

Telling myself to be patient gardening teaches  you patience but man is it sure fun to come in   and check on everybody how everybody is growing  um just you know Min this is Scarlet getting some  

Nice structure to her nice and full and thick um  let’s come on over here because I know we’ve got   some more great ones last year we sold out of this  plant so fast this is the leguna compact blue um  

With ie this is a liilia another really nice  more cool weather plant nice tight foliage but   has a true blue flower with um a white eye does  really well and then the plant that knocked my  

Socks off last year was the artist blue ageratum  it performed all the way through I planted it in   March and I pulled it out in November I think  it was a rockar of a performer the Silver Falls  

The Laman of course you got to have have um the  lemon Coral Sedum and then look at the guara this   is the Caroli petite pink look at those sweet  little pink flowers right there just blooming  

So yeah there’s a lot of things that are fun  going on in here in the greenhouse we will be   restocking more we’re going to hopefully get some  um some good perennials in here lots of things we   still have we’re actually filming this on Friday  afternoon we’ve been working our little hinies off  

All day this is not going to a until Monday um  so we still have a good week as far as filming   to get some more things in here so we’re going  to have lots of options oh yeah hanging baskets  

Look at that I didn’t even I forgot to look up  yeah I well they’re just hanging I can do see   a little bit of green St sticking up there they  are they’re starting to they’re starting to poke  

Their little heads up so we’ve got that now um  perennials because these we overwinter these out   side they’re still pretty dormant now if you want  to come and buy some some day lies of course day   lies are there dianthus we’re going to be bringing  more things from up at production bring them down  

Uh but just know right this is what your day  looks like you’ve got to when you’re looking   at especially like your shrubs and your perennials  you got to Envision what it’s going to be not what  

It looks like right now so keep that in mind we  still have a beautiful selection of unique stone   we got this order in in November and so um as far  as like selling them we were kind of winding down  

The season so we have a lot of options available  on this order I tried to like here this is I think   the tornado ear um I tried to yes the tornado ear  get one of every color right so you’ve got the AG  

Stone the ancient age a light Walnut and a dark  walnut so I try to give people some options as   far as that goes um and then we’ve been selling  some of the unique stone the smaller pieces that  

Can ship relatively easily we have been shipping  those online but you can still see there’s a great   selection of unique stone here whether you want  Galloway earns or like a small scroll ear we’ve   got bashful betties that are always so popular um  the Savannah urn that’s always incredibly popular  

Lots as you can see lots and lots of options um  I I do want to show you come on up here because   Cece and I were working on this little area  together today um we were working on cleaning  

Up the Pines we really when we closed we kind of  walked away and just left this so if you have pine   trees you know that we had a lot of cleanup to do  a lot of sticks trying to get the pine needles um  

Pushed out somebody left a coat um working today  but this is a great idea so CC and I were working   on this this is a foow planting the plants are not  really planted in here these are the jumbo jardir  

We have like this is H Stone there’s ancient age  right there we have them in different colors um   but these are really nice big containers so the  whole style is called jumbo jarder um this is  

The smallest it comes in five sizes y’all this is  the smallest and the next and then this is number   three in line unique stone though offers two sizes  bigger than this one it is crazy how large these  

Things can be but to give you an idea of what you  could do with them you can put them together in a   collection right if you wanted to yes you can buy  the one pot but here’s a great idea to put them as  

A collection for the shade you’ve got a u you’ve  got some ukuras and a chamelea and then you’ve   got the Florida Sunshine these types of shrubs  could stay in these containers for years and   years we just talked about that in the last video  how you can plant your shrubs and your perennials  

In your containers so it kind of gives you an  idea of what that looks like like right here we   have the um the AG Stone gives you a different  kind of look to it ancient age sorry thank you  

Friday afternoon that’s AG Stone this is ancient  age more of the strawberry planters out here um excuse me was the what oh yeah yeah yeah yeah  yeah so CeCe is just she’s so stinking creative  

And smart y’all um I love how she did this display  this is the everillo grass this is a CarX um a   beautiful Evergreen grass that is for the shade  and she paired it with the black strawberry  

Planter is that not just a beautiful like grabs  your eye and just says hey look at me look how   pretty I am I love that so she did a great job  with that um that is our plan and our desire is  

When you come is that you’re inspired and you  really enjoy how things look together there   was something ooh ooh ooh okay we’re going to be  bringing in hopefully more hbor y’all if y’all   don’t come and buy these plants I’m just going to  take them all this is the ice and Roses rose look  

At this so the hbor Linton roses are one of my  most favorite perennials because this time of year   when we’re desperate for spring they are blooming  and they are stunning so this is like I said the  

Ice and Roses Rose we’ve got other colors um some  of the plants are different ages and so they may   not bloom this year that’s where’re dreaming of  what is going to be um so here you go like look  

At the color difference on that compared to  that ice and roses rose right so helor come   anywhere from a solid white to a yellow to a pink  to a deep red to um a double dark purple you name  

It they tend to be deer resistant I’m not saying  they’re deer proof every time I say they’re deer   resistant somebody says well somebody you know  they eat mine because they’re really really tough  

And um most of the time deer do not like to eat  them so we got hellor we’re going to be bringing   in some more hostas Galore yes they’re dormant  it is the perfect time to plant them so lots and  

Lots of options um like I said Bolton will be  here food junkie will be here it is going to be   a fun day oh Aqua pots traditional Aqua Pots if  you can see if Jerry can pan they’ve got tons of  

Different colors and different shapes for you so  we do have the traditional aquapots we have Chamas   we actually had we were talking to um she wasn’t  a customer we’re actually a customer hers and so  

She came today and was asking about Chamas and  we’re like oh yes we have Chamas so now is also   a great time to plant Chamas so we’ve got some um  both japonicas and squas that you can plant lots  

And lots of options it is going to be the start of  a beautiful season here at 2024 Creekside Nursery   come see us Saturday February 17th that is this  Saturday from 9:00 to 3 as always we hope you  

Have found this fun informative and inspirational  youall have a great day we’ll see next video bye friends