From Rain to Sunshine: Garden Flower Hunt

Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside  and this is part two of the rainy day at Creekside now before you say anything I know that we have  got gorgeous blue sky it literally just popped out it has been raining all day we did part one  on Monday so you can check that video out if you missed it we were in production all day because it  was pouring down rain clearly it has cleared out and uh so now it's not rainy day it's a beautiful  day what we're going to do is I am going to take you a

round to the gardens we're even going to  go up to Mimi's garden and we are going to be on the hunt for all things flowering because yes  it is mid late uh February here in North Carolina Zone 8A spring is banging on the door still quite  a while uh to before it officially arrives but it is here the gardens are saying different things  I want to show you some beautiful uh flowers in the garden so so we are standing up here right  on the edge of the chicken cpop can we just stop for a moment and

appreciate all of the jonquils  that are blooming uh so jonals daffodils that a junell is a type of daffodil jonals do really  well here in the South they handle the heat and humidity like Champions um Mimi and I in late  fall planted three different clumps this is gigantic star from our friends at color Blends  and it gets its name because look how massive that flower is these are blooming earlier because  this area is really warm right we're right here at the chicken Coupe and so you can see w

e've got  a clump way back there in the back then we've got these guys right here and then uh the really  nice bigger spectacular display are these guys right here they're all gigantic star planted  them um and they're just phenomenal love love love this bulb now I do have some uh these are  the ones I want to say this was a blend that I had gotten a couple of years ago from um from  Van England and it was a like a blend for the South so you can see we've got some different  um different colors

different kind of shapes and everything we even have some little little  tiny little petite ones I wish that there was smell Vision because especially the gigantic star  oh my gosh y'all they smell so phenomenal they are just an absolute Delight to smell the fragrance  on them is great so daffodils are definitely uh making their uh appearance here in North North  Carolina and are just oh my gosh I mean that's like the sure sign of spring in my opinion is  when the junil start blooming growing up

my mama always called them jonquils because uh so  they're the Jan quillas right so if you are in the South and maybe you struggled with daffodils  before uh when you're buying your bulbs make sure they are the Jan quillas because jonquils they  will do really well here in the South now I do want to give you an update uh you you saw that uh  yeah my alarm is going off because uh our Emily is home she came home from college so she's arriving  and brena's like who is that what am I going to do yo

u it's always a good thing when you're a  when your baby comes home from college for the weekend all right back to flowers uh  so in this fall I think you were with me because Mimi and I were in this Garden together  and we planted the unique stone ears and so I did violas and then I underplanted with  the Tulips well they're doing three of the four of their ears are doing great  and then y'all look at this seriously there's always one problem child right so I  do not know what was going on but

what well I do know what was going on but the Tulips  lifted up the entire mass of violas and the other tulips these tulips were doing great  these this one pushed everybody else up so I tried to resurrect it see right here here's  another tulip right there so I tried to do my best it is what it is it's all about messes and  successes here right okay so the because right we are in the season of Lent and one of the plants  that I absolutely love and adore this is the time of year where they are i

n all of their glory and  this is probably without a doubt my um my biggest hore my most beautiful hore let me show you how  huge this thing is y'all look at that is that not unbelievable this is probably 18 inches 2 inches  wi 18 sorry 18 inches to 2 feet wide gorgeous I want to say that this is mahogany snow I have had  it for years and it is always it clearly loves this spot we have got buds and blooms nice tight  compact growth on it adore this plant if you have your hellor make sure you tri

m back all your old  foliage you can see right here where I had taken back all the foliage uh that was last year's  and so that way these beautiful flowers can absolutely shine next door we have the white by  the gate chamia and we have got Buds and Flowers the flowers are kind of hidden a little bit so  we're going to come in here and do a little uh a little look see a little Peak SE they are  nice Pure White this is an older flower right here trying to get in they're all kind of hiding  undern

eath the foliage but this was the first this is the best year that it has bloomed last year  of course we had problems with the uh the Arctic blast that came through at Christmas and really  did a number on this plant so I'm just tickled I'm tickled white to get any kind of blooms on this I  am training it up against this uh I don't what do you call this this lovely trellis thank you there  we go trellis it's a Friday afternoon folks so as it grows I just come in here and attach it up  and and j

ust kind of Pull It in a little bit so this is a japanica nice big fat leaves on it and  it blooms at this time as this grows my flowers are just going to get bigger every single year  and be nice and happy with your Chamas it is a great thing to go ahead and start fertilizing  them with Holly tone Holly tone is a wonderful thing to because they are acid loving plants I  will start uh maybe in like a month or so with the first application you can give your Chamas  if you're trying to get them to

grow well and get them really well established which is what  I'm trying to do here you can feed them I want to say up to three times um you kind of want to  stop by July ish so that way the new growth has time to get hardened off and get all those buds  get nice and formed before you know the uh the fall temperatures hit now let's Mose you on to  the back because I have got such pretty things back there coming around to the uh farest pansy  bed here in the back so many fun things y'all that ar

e going on look at this this is from I  believe this was color Blends also last year it is the wood blend of bulbs and so it's just a a  mixture of bulbs that come together you plant them you know however you want to but right now the  daffodils are blooming we had some high ense in here um some all sorts of little things right so  you can see the blue in there but I just kind of did these all throughout I did these last year and  uh they came back really well and are doing great of course the h

ellor right you were with me when  we pruned these and trimmed back the old foliage and they are blooming and just doing great here  we have a double look at that isn't that gorgeous I love it this is another one another Clump that  does really well um really nice and establish you can see just massive massive amounts of flowers on  this this too is nice and big this is close again to that kind of that same size of that mahogany  snow 18 in to 2 ft apart on those guys and then right here where u

h where Brena is on the she  just saw a bee sorry about Miss B saw a be um right here look at my pulmonaria look isn't that  glorious this is the uh pinka blue pink of Blue from Proven Winners it has it starts out as pink  flowers so if you can see the pink and then they turn blue now I need to get in here and do some  tidying up uh on this bed obviously I need to lay down some new compost and some new mulch I need  to come in here and prune up the edges right so don't ever think please I certai

nly don't uh I  don't subscribe to that that everything has to be quote perfect before you can show it and share  it with other people perfect is um only found in the dictionary you are not going to find that in  real life there is no such thing as perfect there are perfect moments there are not perfect you  know Gardens right there's perfect moments in the garden and so um just be easy on yourself so  enjoy it enjoy the beauty that is there uh we also you were with me when we did these guys so

this  is going to be another fun one I did the trough right and we have those beautiful violas and then  the Tulips that are going to be coming up in there oh my gosh so much fun now my Edge woria that  you can see right here is putting on some buds hold your horses because here in just a little  bit we're going to go up to Mimi's garden and we are going to see her edgeworthia which is like  if you were to look for the perfect Edge worth you then these are going to show up because oh my gosh  th

ey are stunning now look at this now the sun's a little different over here but the cherry tree  is blooming so this is an Okami cherry tree it's going to be one of your earliest blooming cherry  trees my yoshinos that are up in the BM are Nam thinking about blooming however this Okami she  is and so we get to see this because of course it's back here in the backyard starting to open  up some beautiful flowers just lovely now it was raining like I said earlier when I was back here  I think it wa

s last year this tree was buzzing oh there she there's one of them uh with honeybees  so we have I don't know if you can see but there is a honeybee up there there's a couple of them  they're starting to come out at after the rain but those aamis are just so fun such beautiful  delicate flowers yeah I'm seeing some more honey bees that are coming out but the cherry tree love  this even starting to drop some petals down there on the ground uh this tree has been in here this  may be going into her

fourth year so we are we're making progress she is filling out we planted her  as a 15 gon and she is just she's growing and so very very exciting now what else is growing and it  was funny because my Megan my middle daughter want middle child wanted me to plant uh pink tulips  this year so that she could come out and cut them she is definitely uh she is the flower girl  too as well so she wanted me to plant pink tulips so that she could come out in the spring and cut  tulips and bring them ins

ide so she was like Mom I hry been do this video so I can go cut some  some tulips because guess what look look right there first of all the violas doing great and  then this is the smooch blend from our friends at color Blends uh nice shades of pink the hot  pink is blooming first this is definitely the hottest Spar spot in my yard and so these guys are  blooming first they are short I do not know why they are as short as they are um color blend did  pre-chill them for me I do know though we ha

ve had some really weird and abnormally warm temperatures  so I think that's probably part of the reason why they're still short uh but my gosh y'all I don't  care they're beautiful aren't they I told Megan I was like well you're just going to have to put  them in a little short vase so these are just starting to uh open up and develop such fun color  here on on the patio look at that so now you get to see them because once I get done with the video  Megan may come and clearcut them out and you

know what I am perfectly fine with that because that  is why I planted them and again I want to enjoy them so even here in the deck boxes we have our  first ones that are starting to bloom of course we put in right the violas the Euphoria I okay the  Ascot Rainbow all sorts of great things in there and then put those tulips in and they are they're  coming up everywhere so I did this smooch blend all throughout and um back here in the backyard  so it's going to be a lot of fun now this is still s

mooch down here but this is not going to be quite  as warm because it is in the landscape they will come on and develop but I kind of like the fact  that they are not all blooming at the exact same time the wind is starting to come in because is  going to be cooler so uh we're going to deal with some wind now uh let's bbop around to the front  right quick and let me show you uh one of the other flower beds we are now in the uh front yard  and we're going to head up to the BM here in a second but

we have more jonquils here in the front  that are blooming so stinking excited about it the daes are popping up yes I know we could probably  put come in here and do a little fresh mulch H it is what it is I'm just going to choose to ignore  that and I'm going to enjoy these beautiful beautiful jonquils that are so stinking happy I do  not remember this exact blend it came from color Blends planted these last year and they are doing  great I mean look at that they have all popped up they have g

ot lots of buds on them beautiful  nice orange on the throat with those really sweet yellow petals it is great now what we're going  to do let's head head over to the BM you were part of that Journey with us I think when we were  planting the thousands of tulips throughout the nursery these are the ones that are first cracking  some color and so the ones at the nursery are not cracking color so we're going to look at these  first the yellow is definitely blooming it is a blend this is the um ble

nd that has yellow and  has red and it has a deep purple in it clearly yellow is the first yes again they're short and  so that's all right I don't care they're pretty they're yellow and they are flowers so I am going  to thoroughly enjoy them they are just there's a little red one starting to show some color so here  we have red just a little bit of red can you see that red and then we've got the yellows that are  starting to to um to show some really fun color look at that oh my goodness it's

so exciting oh  there's another good red one right up there in the front uh so I'm telling you I think as gardeners  we are naturally tend to be um more optimistic people right because I think you have to be  optimistic if you're going to Garden you've got to get in here and just believe of what is going  to come maybe not what you see right now so that's what's so fun about planting these tulips in any  kind of bulb right you plant that and it's just this little hard like little nugget dreaming

of  what it's going to be and then you actually see it start to happen and come through fruition and it  is just so so fun and exciting all right these are doing well uh let's go up we've got some helbor  we're going to look at and then we're going to make our way we're making our way to Mimi's house  so we're going to go look at Mimi's house too okay let's go when we planted this little Woodland  Garden oh gosh last last spring March I'm not remember sure when we actually planted it I wanted 

to fill it in with in little pockets with the hbor and these are some of the Frost kiss series  I know it's Frost kiss because if you look at the foliage it has a beautiful kind of variegated  veining look to it and just so much fun all three of these are different but just gorgeous colors  this time of year we want loads of color right loads of color in our shade Gardens and speaking  of shade garden so Mimi's house is just right Beyond me she has got I told you earlier like the  most perfect s

pecimen of edgeworthia let's go up there and look at it I think you know how much  I adore coming up to my mama's Garden uh I was driving by the other day and I almost ran off the  road cuz I was like what is that blooming look at this this is Crimson candles this is a chamia um  it's got honeybees in it absolutely covered in these stunning pink flowers just spectacular she  has had this here for um gosh how many years six or seven years I believe it is gorgeous isn't  it though and then it's ri

ght here beside the Windchimes love it uh so right talk about being  optimistic planting those plants uh for the future that's why I am planting more Chamas in my  yard now because in 10 years I want to be able to walk out and see things like this in my yard  right now my Chamas are quite small um as you can tell like with my white by the gate right so  they are small but that's all right I know that they're going to get there and just be absolutely  beautiful just like this Crimson candles um i

t is a Japonica and just just gorgeous now we're going  to Mosey on over here because talking about when you drive by and about running off the road it is  um these Edgeworth is so back here oh my goodness y'all just wait so edgeworthia is I posted a  picture of mine uh at the nursery of Bloom of mine and it people are quite fascinated by it  so it's edgeworthia chrysanthia and these are shrubs this is when they are really in all of  their Glory so you can see here that she has two uh that is wh

at these beautiful shrubs are  right here but coming out of winter going into spring they do these beautiful kind of like a  butter cup yellow flowers on the tips and they tend to be a little bit more turned down they  have the most amazing fragrance and she said she said I planted them here so that I would  get the fragrance throughout the yard um and then once they're finished blooming they will put  on some really kind of like elongated almost like a silky kind of texture of a leaf but I mean

  y'all these plants are stunning and there's honeybees uh that are on them but the again I  can't describe the fragrance to you it's almost very similar to a um a tea a sweet OS mantis but  slightly different this one is huge I mean it's probably uh 7t and width do you don't prune it  you just leave it alone of course she has got helor all underneath it she has got just y'all  there are I see some snow drops back there but the the the blooms on this are just unbelievable  it only comes in yello

w cuz somebody asked me does it come in any other colors nope this is it you  don't need any other colors once you smell this this is all you need uh but I I just adore how she  allows the helor these are kind of the old timey helor that naturalize they put out the seeds and  they drop um but she has all sorts of different ones this is a gorgeous one right here um but  she also told me she said I've got um I've got of course she's got tons of helor throughout all  of her Gardens because she is t

hat predominantly dry shade garden um but she has some her pulmon  area is blooming as is her Prim roses so let's go find those and see those okay my friends I found  the prim roses she has this fun little bed right here um that uh we're going to get Brynna out  of here she smells Rosie so my parents have a doberman named Rosie so we're trying to trying to  keep Brena focused here look at these Prim roses y'all oh my goodness so stinking cute don't ask  me what colors they are I do not know uh l

ike what varieties they are we're just going to enjoy them  if you find Prim roses and they uh do well in your area grab them right because they are like kbor  as far as this is the time of year when they are going to be blooming and thriving in the garden  just so sweet and delicate popping up mixed in with your hellor right so there is a pink Frost uh  all sorts of beautiful ones and I got to get the dog out of here before Mama shoots me all right  now let's go look at her pulmonaria all right

my friends so I couldn't find Mimi's pulmonaria that  was blooming uh and Brynna found Rosie so we're g to we're going to mosy our way back home now uh  but before we know it if you remember the tour that we did at Mimi's uh Garden in the spring  gosh two years ago these are the aelas that are going to be in full massive bloom canot wait for  it hopefully it will be a good year for the aelas to give us loads of beautiful color um can you  see that Crimson candles though out there just spectacul

ar so um I know that this is kind of a  very different kind of a a little bit more of a free form uh type Garden Tour but I just wanted  to share with you all of the beautiful plants that are flowering and that you get to get a little  glimpse of what's happening in the gardens here in North Carolina hang in there my friends spring  will be coming to you very soon uh thanks for this little informal just very kind of informal would  be the word to do it a garden tour of flowering things in our Ga

rdens here in North Carolina as  always we appreciate you thanks so much for gring with Creek Side as crazy as it may be sometimes  we appreciate you see you in the next video bye friends can we go home let's go home come on let's go