Pond and Plant Nursery! Chalily St Louis

Okay. Hey, what's up gardener friends? Sorry about the weirdness with the okay. It wasn't that weird. Sorry for apologizing for weirdness. It wasn't weird. Jeff here. How's everybody? I hope you're doing well. I'm great. I'm about to head out, last minute decision, to a nursery around here. It's actually a pond supply store, but it's also a nursery. Awesome place. It's called Shillelagh. They have an online shop as well, so you guys can check them out online. They were out here pretty close to my house and they moved after I've been in the same spot for many years. They haven't been able to check out the new location. So it's in St. Albans, which is, you know, St. Louis County, I believe. And it's supposed to be pretty cool. So now they have plants and, you know, pond stuff, pond supplies, lots and lots of fish. That's the main reason I'm going there. I would like to get some albino channel cats for my pond, really more for my big pond, but I'm going to grow them out here in the little pond for the summertime. And you probably pick up some plants, depending on what's going on there. Let's just go. I'm filming this after the fact, that's why there's awkwardness. So we're just going to pick up and there we will be in the car and figuring out how to get in there. Right up here, right there. It's in here. Yeah. Right where this white truck is. Yeah. It pops out of nowhere. Cars. What? Oh, there's construction going on down there. So it's also a nursery now. It used to be just pond stuff, but now it's also a nursery. Hence why I pulled out the phone. It's for the youth, for my plant. Sorry. I'm sorry. You can talk though. They can, they can, they'll be able to handle some conversation. It'll be fountains. I have a lot of fountains here too. We're here for catfish. Who knows what we'll leave with. Gosh, this is huge. Priced accordingly. It's a nice plant. Seminole pink. It's a classic. Look at that fountain. You see that? We can go in. Look at it. Copper Oak tree fountain. It's only $13,500. Can we get two of them? Okay. Wow. This is pretty neat. What a nice setup they've got in here. These begonias, these guys look good. These look really nice. Look how big these are. This isn't that pretty, that patina. It's not really a patina, but it looks like a patina. I like that a lot. Well, that one's only a thousand. That's smart. Put the $13,000 one right in the front because then everything else you see, you go, oh, that's a great price. Oh, these are awesome. Look at these. These lotus bowls. So you fill them with water and you put a lotus in them. Well, you were married to a Japanese. You know all about this stuff. It's Japanese origins over here. I realized that I cut myself off in the middle of saying Japanese. It may have sounded like I was saying something that I did not intend for it to sound like I was saying. That was just me cutting myself off. This is, wow, could do a lot with that. Turbo would have fun in there, wouldn't he? Lots of house plants. Oh my gosh, this place is really freaking cool. Oh, this is beautiful. That was cool, man. I miss having a pond. Ponds are so much fun. Oh, look how the amaryllis down there blooming. That's fun. Plenty of taro. Colocasias. These are Maui golds. Can't wait. Yep, Maui golds. These are pretty with the red stems. Oh yeah, Hawaiian punch. So good. Okay. Oh, here we go. Pond plants and fish. That's a pretty camera. The pond set up with the lotus bowl. Gosh, that's pretty. Oh, cupia. Never occurred to me about cupia in a pond. Makes perfect sense. Spider lilies. Those are awesome. Alternanthera. This is really pretty variegation. That's an onanthera. Nice pink on it. And there's the catfish. One, two, three, four. It's got a whole bunch. It's a beautiful selection of koi in here. The long fins, the butterflies. All different sizes. Look at these guys. Oh, those are beautiful. Oh, got lots of iris and some Kayla lilies. All right. I think I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to pick some stuff up. We'll meet back at the house. Probably just me fish, but I don't know. I'm tempted. These lotus potsies are beautiful. Oh, hold on though. Look at all the Colocasia. Great variety. They've got the black corals, my favorites, and the mojitos, teacups, and the staghorns. They've got a whole wall of staghorns here. It's a little wall, but we'll call it a wall. Okay. Hey, look. Wow. Right back to where I was in the beginning of the video. Crazy. Got a few plants. Just a few. It was just a few. So I got the catfish. That was the main thing I went there for, right? And then they did happen to have three plants that I was really into. I'm pretty excited about. I got one right here. This is a plant I've been looking for for a while. It's not a hard plant to come by, but for whatever reason, I don't see it offered locally unless you go to a pond supply store. And this isn't exactly... Oh, you'll see. Here we go. This is a variegated pennywort, which is hydrocoddle, I believe, right? Or did I just make that up? No, hydrocoddle. Okay. Yeah. It's a type of hydrocoddle. So these are pond plants. You can grow them marginally. You can grow them in your bog gardens. You can grow them as houseplants. You can grow these in your fish tank submerged. They're very versatile. They spread very rapidly. This one's variegated, and this is one of the few circumstances where I wish I could have found one that wasn't variegated, but the variegation's nice. When you put these into a container that doesn't have to have drainage on it, and you give it a nice wide space, they will fill out the entire top. And there's just something that's just cute and peaceful about them. I just enjoy them. Also, I might put some of these in the pond. These spread. So whatever I do with this, it will multiply and grow and just be all over the place and can divide it up and do lots of different things with it. It's just a plant that I think looks really cute. They look really nice in a bowl. So if you had these in a bowl, they'll fill out the whole top and then kind of drape over. And the more sun you give them, the more compact and more full you'll have with this shape up top. That's a nice plant. That's a prolific plant. Excited about that one. Gonna be able to do a lot fun things with this. The hydrocotyle, like I said, you can divide that up very easily. So I could take this, probably split that into four pieces. Actually, probably a lot more than that. But four would give me nice big chunks. And I could pop that into my containers. The plants like things more on the moist side. These do want moisture, a lot of moisture. And they will, within a short amount of time, fill in as a ground cover on the tops of containers. Awesome plant. Okay, this next one, this is one of my favorites. And I haven't grown these in a while. It's been a few years. If you've been watching the channel for some time, then hopefully you'll recognize this. And this is a black coral elephant ear, black coral colocasia. I don't normally like the black elephant ears, just black plants in general. I like to have them here and there for contrast. But this one, it gets a sheen on it that I don't know how I'll be able to get that showing camera. But it is shiny. And you get this like a dark jade green color with that black. You can kind of see that in there. See that shine? They tend to be really prolific. There are some others. There's the sapphire geckos from Brian's Botanicals, which is very similar, but they have almost an iridescent blue hue to them. But just in my experience, those have never been able to get as prolific, get as big. They don't do as much for me whenever I try those. When you order from Brian's, you also get really small plants. But I've also, I usually have got my black corals as very small plants, and they still would get very big and outperform those others. So it's just, it's one of my favorites. If you want something with a more exotic iridescent appeal, though, that black sapphire is a really cool one. Here's the name. If you didn't, you know, it's just, it says taro black coral right there. Oh, there's the website, shillouis.com. There's even a QR code. That's nice. Moving into the future. They've been there for a while though. These guys do a lot of work. They do a lot of amazing pond builds and structures. They had a great variety in there. So many different cannas. I wanted to grab an Australias was in there, but I was just like, you know what? You really don't need it. I have a lot of cannas out here as it is. The Australias cannas look so pretty when you have them in water. They usually take on just a better reddish hue to them than when I have them in the ground. For me, this is just my personal experience, but I didn't. I just stuck with these guys. I doubt that I'll be putting this in water. So I'm going to be pulling this out from its potting media. It's aquatic, which I think is just sand and topsoil probably, and putting this into a planter of some sort with soil. It'll do just fine like that. I don't have quite enough sun over here in my little patio pond for a lot of aquatic plants anymore, unfortunately. Hydrocodile, maybe just because it's so tough, it'll probably just grow no matter what. That wasn't really the goal. I don't really need plants for the patio pond thing over there. Just, these are things that you can use otherwise. They don't have to be in a pond. Okay, and last one. There's only three, I know, but there are three plants I'm really excited about. This one, this was such a good deal. I'm going to have some trouble getting it over here because it's large and more on the awkward side. I'm going to set this down like this on the table. Look at the size of this thing. It is a very large staghorn fern. Platycerams are awesome. Look at the size of the shield on this guy. This is only like 30 bucks, and I know for those of you who are maybe further down south, especially those of you in Florida, that might be like, yeah, that's what they usually cost. Here, $30 for a mounted platyceram. Did I call this a bird's nest fern earlier? If I did, I didn't mean to. It's a staghorn fern. I don't know what's going on my brain right now. It's Saturday. The brain's still catching up from the week. Usually, one that's mounted is just maybe, you know, a couple of these little guys, if even, and they're usually $30 to $50. So this is massive. Last time I saw one this large at a store, I think it was like $150 to $200. That's just the difference between buying things further up north versus down south. You just don't see them as common, but I still just think that that's a great deal, period. It's just, it's, it's so big. It's a very nice size plant with so much, so much shield on it. Lots and lots going on. Look, it's coming out the bottom, out the tops, and all the way around instead of just being, you know, it's one piece that's just been mossed onto a plank of wood. This one is on a plank, so I'm gonna have this hanging. I'm actually probably gonna hang it from a palm tree that's right behind me. Yeah, I don't know. I thought this was awesome. It's just a really nice, big, hefty size plant. It's just not, I don't know. It's harder to tell with the wide-angle lens because it stretches everything out, but it is, you just have to trust me. Very large and just so much to it. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, what is that, eight, nine, ten. Has ten plants on it, so that's a great deal. Talking three bucks a plant in this. Amazing. I'm a sucker for a good deal, especially when it's something that is just so big and so beautiful. Oh, good stuff. All right, hey, that was fun. I know, very brief, but sometimes that's all it is. It's just gonna be a quick little trip to a store. I suggest checking out Shillelagh if you're in the St. Louis area. Even if you don't have a pond, it's a very inspiring place to go, and they have some options there for pondless ponds. So things with the lotus bowls, which I'm pretty sure you saw some of those, and lots of different ideas and inspirations around the store, maybe get you going. So you can just do a big bowl with a few aquatic plants and maybe, you know, like one fish in it, something like that, if it's nice and big, or some mosquito fish, there's lots of options. The water for me is a very big aspect of gardening, so that's one of the reasons I love it there. I miss having a pond. I used to have a koi pond a long time ago and dug it up and put the pool in, which I don't regret that decision, and I know people say, oh, do the aquascape thing, but those are, I mean, an aquascape pond this size over here would be, I would say, at least three to four hundred thousand dollars. No. Sorry. They look awesome, but no. Would be cool. Don't get me wrong. It would be awesome, but to be able to have something that's got the 48 feet by 22 feet and nine feet deep of actual swimming space and not like mostly full of really big rocks with a small amount of swimming space in the middle, it would cost a fortune and take up a ton of land because you need a lot of space for the wetland biofilters, which are amazing. It's an awesome system. I'm really into it. I think it's cool, but there's just nowhere in the backyard for that anymore. Everything that's left is all hooked to drainage. All these helms up here, they drain into this yard and go to a storm sewer down here. So anywhere that a pond would go, it would basically just be a puddle. I wouldn't be able to do very much with anything. That's why I stick to the above ground stuff now out here and, you know, just enjoy the pool and try and have things around for everybody, all the animals, all the nature. Hey, thanks for hanging out. Hope everybody's doing well. Having a great day, great life, and I think it's going absolutely beautifully for you. Hi, Pipi. Are you trapped by the snaghorn? I'm so sorry. All right. As always, and most importantly, everybody, I should take this out to the sun. Really, you get a good look at that shine on the foliage when it's in the sun. You see it now? That's what I should have done in the first place. Just look at that. Just look at that. It's so beautiful. That's so pretty and so shiny. All right. What was I saying? I think I was saying goodbye. Yeah, keep on growing. Bye-bye.