Epic Fall Garden Tour

Hello friends and welcome to Gardening with Creekside. Today we are going to take a fall garden tour of all the gardens here at the house. It is our goal to give you these garden tours at least once a season. Spring, summer, fall, and winter. That way you can see how the garden changes throughout the seasons and just to show you some real real life gardens here in North Carolina zone 8a. So we're going to show you what things look like and because it is fall we are naturally already thinking about next year. What are the things that we're going to be doing for next year's gardens. Prime example here we are in this I don't know half circle shaped flower bed right along our driveway. The star of the bed right now are these three encore azaleas. This is autumn twist and it's really fun because on one plant you will get a range of colors. You can get the whites with the pink in them. You can get the hot pinks but as you see these are the three beautiful shrubs that are in here but other than that this bed is just empty. This has been kind of a quote problematic bed for us and so I think what the plan is is that we are going to get some more of the autumn twist and continue those out from this side. Maybe we get three or four for each side and add those on that and then down here in the front we're going to put some perfecto moon dove azaleas from Proven Winners. This is just going to be a azalea bed because both the encore azaleas and the perfecto moon does from Proven Winners they're repeat bloomers. So you get this gorgeous display in the spring you get some flowers in the fall summer and then in the fall you get another beautiful display. So I think that's what we're going to do because yeah this has just been one of those beds where it just kind of like always gives you some problems and you're just not quite sure what's going on with it but the azaleas are loving it. So we're just going to turn it into an azalea flower bed. So there you go. I mean you can't get more classic and iconic than that in the south right. We're going to head up here to the berm and we're going to talk about again how things look now and then what they're going to be in the spring and the summer. I can't tell yesterday it rained all day and so Brenna was in the house so she is most excited to be outside today running around and romping so I'm sure that she will keep you entertained with her antics as we go through the tour today. We're going to start on the other side of the berm right. We call this the nursery side because it's on the public nursery side of the of the berm. So we are blessed with tons of hardwood trees here in North Carolina right. So these are trees that are just native. The vast majority I would say 99.9 percent of the trees on our property we did not plant and so in November the leaves begin to fall and they are falling. So between the maples on the driveway which we did plant we have those leaves and then of course all the oaks and the other maples and the poplars around here. So this is that season where all the leaves are falling. Basically we try to keep the driveway clear, the walking paths clear. Once all of the leaves do fall then a lot of times we'll come in here in the flower beds and clean them up mulch those leaves and put them back down. But we do that because like our sedums you can't even see the sedums because they've been covered up by the maple leaves. Coming through right there are messes and successes as always. Things that we're looking at right so we had three of the Sunjoy Neo barberries. There were three here. I lost one I believe I don't remember if it was the last winter or early spring and then this poor little guy is getting covered up by the thunderhead pine. So note to self what I'm going to do is I lost a plant this one's getting swallowed up so I will take this one dig it up and transplant it and bring it back over here right. Little things that we do but this thunderhead this is a Japanese black pine y'all it loves this spot. This is a really fun what I consider like a Dr. Seuss tree right. It will have more of a wide habit than a tall habit and it just continues to grow and grow and grow. I don't even think I fertilized it this year. It's just in this great soil here where we added when we made the beds but it's just such a fun tree and the birds love it as well coming in and putting in all sorts of little bird nests and habitats in there for them. So they are doing really really well. Your perennial hibiscus this is going to be the time of year where they are starting to look really rough. This is holy grail of course right so we have holy grail through these beds. This is their natural progression. This is what they do depending on where you are in the country and your climate. Yours may already be complete sticks or if you're warmer yours may still be flowering some. So what we do is we just let ours completely defoliate and then depending on where you are if you're in the south I have for years went ahead before I knew better I went ahead and cut mine to the ground because I didn't want to see sticks and then I learned from Proving Winters you're supposed to actually not cut them until you know like in the springtime but here in the south because we don't get snow we have very mild winters. Once you let them completely defoliate and then you can come to the ground I've never had an issue with that. It just depends on where you are it's your garden you do what's best for you but yeah I just want to show you this is what perennial hibiscus look like in December. Daylilies of course are oh my goodness so prolific. They will eventually once we have a a hard hard freeze most of this foliage will die completely back and then you can easily just pull it out not a problem whatsoever. Your perennial grasses this is like Niagara Falls right it's taking on those fall hues it is taking on the brown you can leave it if you like or if you want to go ahead and cut it back you can do that. I typically leave mine for the winter interest and then in like mid late February I will cut it to the ground. This is the honeysuckle from Proving Winters this is the sensation. I've got two of them on the berm and I've never pruned them before and this thing was just getting kind of out of control y'all so I went ahead and shaped it up. It blooms on new growth and so I was just trying to tidy it up a little bit so if you have a and it's popping out new growth already I mean it is still quite warm here and so we've got lots of growing still happening in our gardens but just so I went ahead and pruned her up a little bit and then sweet talker viburnum oh my gosh y'all there are two in this bed on side of the purple plum. I love this shrub this is a definitely a southern shrub sweet talker is going to be more upright than it is wide. Later or earlier on in the season I gave it a little bit of a shape up but it puts on little teeny tiny pink flowers in late winter that has a lovely fragrance so this is a fun interest to have in the garden right and then like design wise so we have the sweet talker the purple plum and then there's another sweet talker over here so it kind of keeps it balanced. People ask all the time when do you prune your butterfly bushes? I've learned the hard way kind of like I learned with the hibiscus I also learned with my butterfly bushes. You want to leave these alone until you begin to see new growth in the spring so once you see new growth in the spring on your plants then you want to go ahead and give it a haircut. It does bloom on new growth and so we want to give it a nice shape up once you start to see new growth in the spring. Once you see new growth popping out on the on the stems then you can give it a haircut otherwise just leave it alone right so I'm not going to touch these until next late spring once I see that new growth coming up on those. These by the way are pugster pinkers love that nice short petite habit on those. Now as we go through the gardens y'all you're going to see weeds. There are spring weeds, summer weeds, fall weeds, winter weeds and there's a weed for every season and this is just something that we have to come through and periodically we just have to come through and pick them. They're not hard to pull we just got that rain but it just takes a little bit of time to come through and constantly weed. That is a project that will never end in the garden. Now look at this now we did get a day of rain yesterday this is the queen nectarine agastache and it is just performing its little head off. It is doing great even just when I hit it the little pollinators were coming out of it. Beautiful nectarine color flowers on it tends to be very drought tolerant the pollinators love it beautiful fun color here in the garden and then yeah you just start to see things as they're starting to go dormant right the smoke bush this is that winecraft gold. I pruned it in the late winter last year and you can see like now how much it grew so here this is where I pruned it right so pruned them pretty far down this tree shrub loves this area and so it gets good growth on it. I don't know if I will prune it again this year or if I will go ahead and let it flower we'll see what we're going to do probably let it go ahead and put the blooms on this year give it that smoke habit and then maybe after that then I can go ahead and prune it just a little bit. And then this is one of those plants that you don't realize how much it grows until you go back and you look at old pictures so these are my north pole arborvitaes and oh my gosh are they not fantastic they are growing and doing so well we've got this lovely hedge of them right here and they have just been very happy trees the idea is to create a screen right so that we have some privacy between the nursery and our house and also it is on the end of the berm so it gives weight down here we've got these beautiful evergreens here where we had the thunderhead that same kind of texture dark green evergreen habit to it color to it and then we repeat that but with a totally different tree and a different habit thunderhead is more wide these are more columnar but yeah loving how great these guys are doing and when I say we do nothing to them we've done nothing to them this bed is on irrigation but we water it once every couple of weeks when it's when it's dry it's not on an everyday basis I can't water my flower beds every day otherwise with my clay soil my plants will start to drown but they are doing absolutely great bugs don't like them love them a ton and then as we come around to the house side of the just to kind of give you an update on how everybody is doing here you were with me when we planted the kentsley's ghost she's hanging out doing well nothing really to report so no news is good news as far as I'm concerned right now she's very healthy she's green she is alive she's perky we are good right that first year they sleep next year they creep and then they leap hopefully we will see lots of good new growth next growing season on that but yeah doing well as our look at these camellias these are the october magic rubies gorgeous sun loving sesanqua camellia from our friends at southern living beautiful double red flower on it again they lost some leaves some petals in the rain yesterday but overall I mean they are gorgeous and we see them from the front porch so very happy to report those are doing well one thing that when we had helene come through hurricane helene which was I don't know six six weeks ago I guess because of course hurricanes wind so this is the pink cascade 2 butterfly bush and it got whipped pretty good in the wind so it got pushed back some you can see a little bit of the roots were exposed right here I'm not overly concerned about how it looks right now because this is that butterfly bush and we prune it hard right just like your pugsters so when that time comes I can prune it really hard and it will flush back out but that's just one of those perils and with those heavy winds associated with a hurricane the twisting and pulling and you have all that foliage she was in full bloom so she got beat up a little bit but strong root system and it will be absolutely fine now this part of the berm has always been a little bit uh I don't know questionable is that is that the word like we came up with a design with the boxwoods and then once we put it in we're like I mean you like it but you don't love it right I know some of y'all had some strong opinions on like the shape of the boxwoods and how we did it and and all that things but we put tons of annuals in here right during the summer so massive color explosion my husband loves his color in the summer and because we sit on the front porch so much like we see this right here so we want massive color explosion but it is you know it is a chore to to plant all those annuals to maintain them then you have to take them out and so forth and so on so the idea is that we are going to um redesign this portion this center portion of of the bed whether we do it this fall or we do it in the spring time will tell exactly when we do it but these are all sprinter boxwoods some of them are doing great some of them are a little bit on the struggle bus because of of certain like some of the times the annuals were covering the boxwoods so you'll see some of them that have some brown spots in them but the idea is that we want to incorporate more shrubs more variety of perennials in there with pockets of annuals that we will put in coming this uh december i have quite the load of tulips coming and so in the berm we are going to do big apricot so big apricot is a single color obviously as its name suggests it's gonna be a nice big tulip that has that beautiful kind of that uh pinky orangey color to it and will stand out really nice so we'll put it both on this side and in little pockets on the other side of the berm as well so we'll have a beautiful tulip display i'm telling you y'all if you're going to be coming through here in like mid-march you need to make a point to stop by and visit us because we have got a ton of tulips that are going to be blooming for you to see i'm not calling ourselves biltmore i'm just saying biltmore was the inspiration so we're going to have lots of gorgeous spring flowering bulbs that you can come and you know just see here in the gardens at the nursery so all right let's head over back to the house and check out some of those gardens so here we are and basically where we started so the azaleas are just over to my right shoulder y'all this is why we love lantana in the south dear heavens this is a lantana from our friends at proven winters this is citron and citron is a softer yellow than um than lemon tart right so it's a little bit of a softer one color but uh she's happy she loves this spot i will say also this is not on irrigation so when we first planted it for about the first two weeks i had to watch it make sure it got plenty of water um i would know if the plants were happy because they would be perky if they got dry they would start to get a little limp and shrivelly you give them some water and they perk right back up when i say we have not watered this lantana um except for those first couple of weeks when we first planted it back in april um literally have done nothing to it nothing and this is how insane it is there actually is a perennial hibiscus in the center completely taken over by the citron but it is beautiful it is vigorous it is happy uh the bugs don't like it japanese beetles don't like it it loves the sun it handles the heat and humidity like a champion i mean this is why and here we are in november and it is still blooming and absolutely beautiful now the depending on where you live will determine whether your lantana is a perennial for you we treat our lantana as an annual because it can be quite iffy as to whether or not it will come back and because we have display gardens right and we have the signature experience where people are coming through we like to switch things up um especially you know in certain areas like this so we treat it as an annual at some point we will come here in and take it out but for now it's still doing good so we're going to let her go the day lilies you were with us i trimmed the boxwoods one day and the andrew was you know pruning back the day lilies they are doing well they all have bounced back quite nicely the weeds have also bounced back quite nicely but that's you know that's another thing uh and so the boxwoods are doing well as nice new growth on them and they have had enough time to put on that new growth and get hardened off before we get a hard freeze so that's where you have to determine and know your zone and your growing area as far as you don't want to prune your box was too late in the season and then they put on new growth and when you get a freeze it burns all of that new growth all of this new growth that you see this bright green um has had time to harden off so once we get a freeze this will not turn brown basically i try to come through about once a year realistically once a year is all i can handle on pruning the boxwoods and but they have done really well we believe this is winter gem we planted these eons ago and we don't really remember but we believe that they are winter gems now uh the little shade garden here on the side of house i've done some cleanup but i have left some things obviously as well so we still have annuals in here like this is the illumination um broalia endless illumination broalia so we've got that we've got some of the rockapuko impatiens the impatience are starting to look a little thin they certainly could probably come out but then you've got euphorbia right this is this is diamond snow i mean y'all it's still very very happy um but that's a personal preference you could come in here and clean it up if you wanted to obviously soon i will do that but that's just not been kind of on the the top of my radar lately now give you an update on the white by the gate camellia this is a japonica camellia and when you think about your camellias you have sesanquas which bloom in the fall they have little thumbprint size leaves on them obviously this is going to be a bigger leaf your japonicas have a bigger leaf on them and that's important to know because of the bloom time sesanquas are blooming now just like our october magic rubies are blooming now japonicas will bloom roughly depending on where you are somewhere in that january to march white by the gate i am training it on this trellis to kind of keep a tight habit to it so i will come in periodically and i will attach those limbs to the trellis just to keep it a nice tight habit white by the gate is covered in buds absolutely covered if you see those big huge buds on it so exciting because this has a stunning pure white double bloom very formal it is gorgeous so i am very excited about seeing this baby bloom later on in the winter time one of the key things especially when you're trying to get your camellias established is consistent water in those hot dry months right you don't want them to form their flower buds and then they go through an period of drought they will drop those flower buds so we want the flower buds so give them a good deep watering at least once a week in the hot months where we don't have consistent rain you can see some hostas are hanging in there some of them are going away it's just different hostas have different dormancy periods and that is what it is and y'all you can clearly tell that i did not get things neat and fancy for you around here because you can see uh this is just this is just real life gardening showing you uh what it looks like so maybe if your garden looks like that i don't want you to feel discouraged or disheartened um it's the fall embrace it and it is what it is of course you have been with us through this entire project of the terrace garden everybody is doing well what we need to do is still we have i still have not done it yet it's just a thing called time is at the least i need to get this mulched if i get it the irrigation down on it this winter then that's great and if not then i will just do it in the spring but at the bare minimum i need to get mulch on this to retain that moisture clean it up keep it neat looking but you can see all of the oak leaves are falling so um there's that and then you were with just the other day when we planted both the shrubs mimi and i added the perennials in here and everybody is doing great i knew that the rain was going to be coming and so that's why i really wanted to get the perennials in here before that rain hit that way everybody gets nice and watered in and doing really well so as far as these two beds there's nothing else to be done just kind of keep an eye on them maintain them but they are good to go the next thing that we will do is up here we will need to go ahead and fill up our boxes right so these are the modern garden boxes from vego nice tall deep boxes they are bottomless and so you can determine how you want to fill up your boxes we will put landscape fabric down on the bottom and up the side just a little bit that way when we water when the rains come we don't have potting soil shooting out the bottom of them so that's what we're going to do and then we're probably we're not going to fill them completely up with soil we're probably going to use some natural debris whether it is some of the pine logs uh you know the hardwood kind of things put in the bottom fill up a little bit of it and then you know use a good layer of our potting soil for these the plan for these boxes is that these will be cut flowers so in the spring well in december we have to get this done before december because that's when all the tulips arrive and i have quite the collection of tulips and jonquils that are going to go in here for the spring and they are going to be absolutely stunning i cannot wait so that is the plan uh i still have to get the obelisk in its place get the rose planted but the rose is just hanging out here she's just sitting in the in the in her pot right here in the bed with uh has a salsa underneath her she's putting on new growth she is happy so you know let her be let me give you an update on this y'all remember we planted this together i have loved this container so much and look at the peppers they're starting to turn uh so jerry can you see where these are um the peppers they're going to be orange you know that was the big question what color will the peppers turn they started out yellow we didn't know um exactly what variety of peppers these were well turns out they're going to be orange which will work perfectly the cabbage both of that well we got a kale and a cabbage doing really well we had did have some cool nights uh not currently but we did um so we were getting some color on that but i mean those cabbages gorgeous so we've really been loving this whole little container right here and then uh to hit this area for you yes i still have the irrigation line this is one that we're going to reuse for the beds but to give you an idea an update here on the steps going up to the chicken coop yes the leaves are falling they are a plenty but you can see here that those perennials that we planted are doing so well of course these were the ice plants right and look like look at that that was one plant y'all and look how much it has grown so it they are very happy again the first two weeks i had to come out here and i had to water all of this because we were not getting any rain this is not on irrigation so those first two weeks i had to bring i had to bring the hose down there's a yellow jacket i had to bring the hose down water them make sure that they were happy and since then those roots have gotten established and it's all hands off so yeah i mean okay yeah he's he's mad i don't know why that that yellow jacket's mad we don't like yellow jackets um but yeah i mean everybody's doing great and i love the fact like you can see that um the creeping jenny putting on lots of pretty new growth so it's doing well the adjugas are doing well um every everybody is very happy in this area so we're just going to kind of maintain it get the leaves blown off get some fresh mulch down if we have some um some bare spots but yeah this is just something that we just sit and maintain and let me show you this this is very exciting look over here y'all so remember you were with me and we were planting um let me try to find you a good one that you can see over here um we planted the anemones and the poppies well look look at them all popping up in here so this is a great time if you're in zones like 7b and warmer this is a great time to get those anemones ranunculus poppies get them in the ground because uh they're gonna go ahead and sprout like they are now but they won't flower until the spring so last year i did that in one flower bed out front i'll show you those in a little bit and man they were gorgeous all right let's move on to the backyard now all right so as the sun comes out here we have um these are the the mexican sunflowers i love these plants y'all i had planted intentionally planted i think five last year and they receded themselves so this year you will see that i have them throughout and you've got bumblebees you've got butterflies you've got beautiful pollinators all over these and yes they can be kind of unruly in the fact of if you stake them they do really well this one i think got blown down with helene but it literally got knocked down it does not care and it continues to bloom it will reseed itself and i'm happy just to let it reseed itself and then next year i can pull out any ones that i don't want in certain areas um but yeah this is mexican sunflower you start it from seed super easy to do it is a gorgeous plant the berry bushes are doing quite nicely we've got of course all of the um the blueberry bushes down here and then the blackberry bushes up here quite a few of you commented that you have the pink lemonade blueberry bushes and that you love them even more than traditional blueberries so um that is exciting to hear cannot wait to taste these babies next year give you an update on the um the dahlias we talked about that how they had a rough year but y'all look there is beauty in the disaster look at that is that not gorgeous so don't ever give up unless they're clearly completely dead um let them let them be and we've got reds and whites and uh yeah so i need to actually come out here and cut some and enjoy i mean i have like three blooms but you know why not go ahead and enjoy them for sure um this flower bed right here is it needs some attention as far as the sunflowers in the back the suncredible sunflowers they're done so we could go ahead and pull them out the uh the salvia which is this is the rockin deep purple it could come out and this you know this the lictrum right here not the lictrum this uh tethonia i never can remember i just call it mexican sunflower anyway this was a volunteer and it's right literally in the middle of an iris so need to kind of clean this out a little bit but while the pollinators are still loving them um then i'm just going to leave them alone because we've got the butterflies and all the pollinators here so we'll just leave them for now but this is the eyeliner iris clearly loves this spot um will not need to put nearly as many annuals in here as i did this year because my perennials are growing and uh you've got the vertigo grass which is an annual right but then the climbing sweet potato vine so if you need a quick seasonal uh something to cover a climb this is it this is the upside key lime sweet potato vine from proven winners there also comes in black this was four plants they were grande size plants when i put them in here and y'all dear heavens i've been coming in and cutting on them some and giving them to the chickens because the chickens love to eat the sweet potato vine but yeah there you go i mean just a crazy display here of gorgeous color so as we move around um i wanted to show you the camellias back here this is early wonder the rain did not do us a ton of favors with these guys yesterday but this is early wonder which is it's called early wonder because it is a japonica but it blooms early like a sesanqua this is from southern living you can see how it's absolutely covered in buds um it is a beautiful like a double bloom typically the hotter pink this is a little bit of an older bloom on this one but i am just absolutely loving these early wonder camellias as far as i'm concerned one can never have too many camellias in a southern garden right and then coming around i know we've talked about this before generous gardener she's very generous she is uh quite vigorous in her growth and clearly jenny has not kept up with her uh as far as the pruning so this is the eyesore this is jenny just being real with you on the video and showing you the messes and the successes um so i've got to get her either pruned or put back together jerry says pruner um she is very very generous in her growth there are two plants one on each side looking back i probably easily could have gotten away with one plant but i was a new rose gardener at the time and had no idea that this thing would be so happy right here but it clearly is so there you go on that we'll see if i'll see if i can get jerry to come through and tippy-toe i'll let you go ahead and walk past me honey you got it okay um he he fusses at me every time he comes through because he gets attacked we were just here um with these beds everything's doing quite well we'll move on to the back because we haven't been here in the back we got the anemones and the ranunculus is planted which is the perfect time having that great rain that came through so that was lovely we talked about um go ahead and maybe taking out these are the summerific lilac crushes because there are three of them right here and they were just again love their spot so we're thinking uh next spring before they come back that we'll go ahead and take them out and move them if we don't do it before um this winter i want to come in and redesign the backyard beds um just thinking about how i have them designed i don't love these beds and i want to love them um while there are parts that i do enjoy there are other parts that i just do not um like very much right now if you have an opportunity to get a ginkgo y'all you need to get a ginkgo for your garden ginkgos are so adaptable so many different zones that they can um can go in this is a maidenhair ginkgo so it's a very petite short more like a shrub than it is going to be a tree but ginkgos of course are famous for those beautiful shaped leaves and then their fall color the quote bad thing about ginkgos is that they don't hold their leaves for very long i'll show you the ginkgo tree she's basically naked this one is holding on a little bit longer it was later to turn but just such a fun ginkgo shrub this maidenhair so we have that one of our great successes has been this tree we absolutely love this this is a um hinoki slender slender hinoki whichever you want to say it um beautiful evergreen it is not prickly at all and very much a dr seuss tree you can see that she's got this fun funky habit uh limbs coming out everywhere her top she was leaning then she perked back up so that has that really fun habit to it which we love we had great annuals in here this summer but those annuals really started to hide and encroach on the hinoki slender so when we do our redesign and when i plant annuals in here this coming summer i will give her plenty of room so that you can really enjoy and appreciate the beauty of this tree but yeah this is one that has just been a great success for us again done nothing the bugs don't like it and so if you start to see some brown in your evergreens in the this time of year completely natural this is when like pine trees drop their pine needles so if you start to see brown don't freak out it is okay now this is this is princeton century this is that ginkgo tree that i was telling you about and um literally was absolutely stunning and then the next day probably 50 of the leaves are gone and then now basically all the leaves are gone with your ginkgos if you want to get a tree just keep in mind that when you get it um if you get a female cultivar they will produce seeds and they do not have a very pleasant odor princeton century is a male so if you can find a princeton century those are male trees so they will not put on fruit and they do not stink but you get the gorgeous color off of them so that's just a something on that and then so that will stay in the when we redesign the bed and then this is a harry louder walking stick now harry louder does not really have a ton of like summer interest to it but it does have a ton of winter interest to it and jerry's going to show you all of these contorted limbs this is what it does it has a fun funky shape i mean this is completely zigzag in here right and so in the summertime when you have these big green kind of leathery leaves on it it's hard to see those fun shapes of the limbs but in the winter time as those fall off you really see how contorted it is so harry louder sticks um harry louder walking stick i think it is so that is a really fun and it'll put on like these little seed pods in the winter time they kind of dangle from it so yeah this one definitely stained like i got a day lily right here it needs to be moved it's too close to here um so yeah you so um here in the south i don't know about y'all but if you get briars or thorns in your garden uh they are like my arch nemesis because this spring mimi and i were in here and y'all i dug and dug and pulled roots and pulled roots and pulled roots of these briars clearly i made it mad and it just came back with a vengeance so it has completely like overtaken this whole part of the garden and these are not little briars every once in a while that have thorns these are the kind of thorns that will get in there and absolutely tear you to shreds so we're trying to figure out what is the best method of getting this out because it has just taken over this corner of the garden and there's not one clump like it has sent out runners and is going everywhere so uh this might be a job for the excavator to come in here because yeah it's not fun at all but the highlight also unfortunately she's gone as far as like her interest is done um is the autumn flame maple so this autumn flame you uh oh my gosh she is just the most gorgeous red maple we've got lots of pictures of it blooming not blooming with its fall foliage on it is a great shade tree in the summertime right gives you lovely shade but man in the fall absolutely stunning foliage on it and does an amazing job and so we were all kind of sad when she dropped all of her leaves but such is life such is the season but like here's a here's one of the ones a leaf that still has that gorgeous i mean flaming red orange color to it so doing quite nicely this little section right you were with us when we did the um the generator for the house we're still still waiting for it to get hooked up and then we joke that we have a green submarine in our yard because the gas company came and brought us the gas tank because you have to have obviously a power source for the generator so this is a thousand gallon tank it looks just like a submarine the gas company told us that we could bury it so that's what we're going to do and so when you bury a tank they send you a green one who knew like we could have green i was like hey we could just stick that in the back and it'd be fine but we are going to bury it it will be back behind um the poplar trees and so you'll just see the little top of it sticking out but we just have to wait until the electric is all about timing with the electrician and making sure that everything happens but we can do that ourselves thank goodness because we have the equipment so if you're wondering what the green submarine is in the yard that's just the the tank the gas tank that will fuel the whole house generator now come over here one last thing that i want to show you because we talked about this you were with me when we planted more anemones in the yard i mean in the flower bed y'all look at them are they not fantastic this is amazing now yes there are a smidge of weeds every once in a while in here but all of these are those anemones and they are going to be stunning we still have more that are popping up that so they're still emerging and coming out but these things will be able to handle our winter so it'll be nice and green throughout the winter it is not a problem whatsoever and then come gosh it was like early march and they started blooming and anemones make the best cut flowers and they just bloom and bloom and bloom even we had one time i had cut some and the vase had dried out and they were literally hanging over the vase i was going to toss them and megan was like well i'm gonna just put some water in and see what happens in an hour they were all standing straight back up and just as happy as could be so if you have a chance to get some anemone corms get some and get them in the ground especially if you're in the south i get all mine from eden brothers i just love them and they do really well and they will be perennials for us so when we planted some of those anemones of course they we already had some of last year's that were coming up and then also the star of the show currently right now are our tea olives so tea olives which is a sweet osmanthus or a sweet olive depends on where you live but they have these little tiny creamy orange white flowers on them that have the most unbelievable fragrance to them absolutely love them we have four of them right here by the front porch and we'll sit on the porch and have our coffee either in the morning or in the afternoon and that wind will come by and i'm just like oh jerry it smells so good every time i talk about the tea olives i always recommend to you if you know a tea olive and you love the fragrance of the tea olive i'm telling you the closest thing that i have ever smelled which so reminds me of it is the candle it's the laurel candle from laurel mercantile and so it's uh they are fantastic i love that candle and it definitely reminds you of that sweet osmanthus but um that is the fall garden tour here at the house uh the beds just trying to give you that idea of how everything looks in november right so we will come back and do another one in the winter um so that way you can really see what the gardens look like in spring summer fall and winter that way we can all kind of share in the messes and successes together it appears we have a delivery coming so we're going to wrap it up and y'all have an amazing day and we'll see you next video bye friends