Creekside Gardens Tour and Haul

You see that? See that? I take that seriously. Don't get me wrong, I'm not like gonna cause an accident or anything over it, but we gotta help the turtles. Hey, what's up garden friends? Plant haul. It's probably in the title. I don't see a reason to build it up. Everything's still in the car because it's been really chilly lately. This video will be out in a week or so. It'll have been a lot nicer. By the time it comes out, there's the haul. There we go. End of video. You're welcome. No, that's not really... Turbo, why don't you come over here? I want you to sit in the neighbor's yard. I feel bad about that. What if you do... Oh, all right. Well, he did that effortlessly, and I feel bad making him get down. It was so good. Okay, all right. Yeah, I went to a new nursery. One that I've wanted to go to for a long time. Creekside Nursery. Not the famous YouTube one. They're over in Collinsville, Illinois, I believe. Bit of a drive from where I live in St. Louis, but I mean, really, if you're in the St. Louis metro, it's not bad. Like 20 minutes, if even. It's a very pleasant drive. So, I have some footage of the nursery. It was very pretty, but I'm going to have to do some voiceover with it. So, here's that. Blue butterfly tree. Look at the variegation. Good variegation. Oh, I mean, seriously though. Feels a little fever dream-ish. They don't get huge. The color. Really nice color. Really organized. This looks like it's mostly hydrangeas. They have a section that says hostas. It's a smoke place of the nature. Well, it is called Creekside Gardens or Nursery. Something like that. It's supposed to be. Wolverine. Oh, nice big fragrant flowers. Really fragrant flowers. So many hostas. I love hens and chicks. So refreshing to see prices because these are like 15 bucks at the nurseries I go to at home. Was it fun? Did you enjoy? I hope so. Okay, now I'll pull the plants up and we can look at what I got. Oh, that was fun. That was fun. I love it there. Look, new plants. The selection was wonderful. Everybody there was very friendly. I liked the way they had things priced. It was easy to follow. I don't know if we'll talk about that or not. They had a chart by the checkout like up on the wall. It's just like here are the pot sizes. Here are the prices. Easy. Love that. You can take a picture of it and just know how much everything costs when you're shopping. And the prices were phenomenal. Excellent. Really, really, really good prices. So that being said, let's just see what's over here, right? Well, first, let's just start off with something I got that I'm disappointed in. And I wish I hadn't gotten it, but I had no way of knowing. Well, actually there's two things here, but you know, sometimes time tells us things and this has had a little bit of time since I brought it home. So this is a hibiscus. Don't know the type. It's not like one of the ones where it's obvious, you know, like the yoders, which is that back there with the yellow with the pinkish red middle. I don't know. It had a beautiful orange flower on it. If you've been following me for a while, you may know every single spring there's a greenhouse around here that I go to that always has these hibiscus, has these gorgeous orange flowers on them, but it's always in a triple or a quad, meaning that it's three or four other colors mixed in with it. And I don't like that. I hate it. And this had one of those beautiful orange flowers on it. And I was like, oh, cool. I'll just get one of these guys. And it's kind of, this was a little pricey. This was like $20. That was, yeah, $19.99 for this little guy. I wasn't really thrilled about that, but I was willing to pay that if I was going to have my orange hibiscus I've wanted for years. That's not, you know, all twisted and tied up into a knot with those quads. Uh, yeah, well, it opened another flower today and it's, it's yellow. It's a double yellow even. It's not even orange. So that means that there are potentially three different plants in this pot with three different flowers on them. Stop. That's not directed at the nursery. You know, these probably just came in with assorted hibiscus and tropicals, but could the growers, could you just pick a color and just stick it in the pot, please? Especially when it's this big. I think that it looks ridiculous if you have, especially if one of them's a double, a double, and then you have a single, what, probably one of those pink ladies, which I don't like. And then who knows what else in the mix. Just put one per pot. That would be really nice. So, hey, one of those is a beautiful orange. I don't know what the others are. Well, okay. There's a beautiful orange, that double yellow. I don't know what the third one is. When the orange one blooms again, I'm going to separate it out from the rest, and then I will have my orange hibiscus, finally. These things happen. Like I said, they didn't know, probably, that it was a quad. Whatever the case, I got the orange one I've always wanted. It's just, in a continuum, I'm going to have to separate it out, which would have to do with the other ones, but whatever. And then I also, this is just one of those things where I got it. I'm like, why did I get it? I'm going to let the dog do his thing real quick. Oh, you've decided this is where you want to sit, huh? Okay, that's fine. You can be the star of the show. That's fine with me. This is, why, I don't know. Oh, because this is one that I hadn't seen before. Candied Campfire. Right. It has really nice color to it. It was even more colorful, but I had this sitting in the shade for a few days. Really, really pretty, vibrant, kind of like the gold nugget. You know, the chicks and charms sempervivums. I just thought it was a nice looking one. So, I grabbed it. I feel like I only ever see those ones. It's like Pacific Berry Blue and then the gold nugget. Those ones I see the most, but that campfire one, it didn't stand out to me and I liked the color. So, I grabbed that. I was going to say I regretted it because it's a sempervivum. I don't really need to get any more sempervivums, but at the same time, I kind of do because a lot of the ones I planted last year died back, didn't make it through the winter. So, I don't know. But those chick charms ones, for me, usually aren't all that hearty. So, I just thought it was pretty. He just bulldozed his way through here so he can get up there. How much you want to bet? He didn't want to stay there. You don't want to stay there. I know you're just messing around. In like 30 seconds, he's going to want to get down. Yep. Yep. That was about 40 seconds. Okay. Have you reset? Do you feel like you can maybe give me a moment without running through here? I think he's excited because I'm sitting on the ground. I don't know why. It seems like it's so important I do these plant hauls. The ground. It's called the ground when we're outside. Okay. More fun things in here. This one right here, it's just a coleus. But it's a really nice one. Really good color on it. It's the Indian Summer Classic coleus. It's a good one. I don't often plant coleus. Usually, I just plant a couple a year. There's really only like two or three coleus that I really like. That's the Alabama Sunset, Indian Summer, and the other one I can't remember the name of. That's one of the ones from Proven Winters. It's just green. It just makes a nice green plant. It's like lime zinger, something like that maybe. I don't see it for sale all that often around here. So I haven't planted it in a long time. And as per usual, coleus have pests in there. There's a couple spider eggs. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Lots of baby spiders in there too. Wow. I was trying to see if those were spider egg cases in there. I was moving that leaf around and a whole bunch of spiders came flying out. So I'm going to put this over here. That was a good enough look. You don't need to see any more of it. It's a nice looking coleus. It can stay over there. I don't, like I said, I've had these plants here for several days. So that's not necessarily from the greenhouse. These guys need to get out of this. They're not looking too hot. I think they're getting too much moisture. Petunias need circulation. I have two petunias in here and they're starting to get some rot on them from being smashed down into this Rubbermaid thing that I've set up here. It has holes in the bottom, but it's not quite enough airflow. So that was another reason I was like, I got to film this haul right now because these guys need to be planted up and moved around. Nice variegation on these. This one is the grape, I believe, right? Glamorous grape is the name of this one. I really like the flower on this one. There's a, what's the main one called? It's called like pink lemonade or something like that of the variegated petunias. I'm not always that into them, but I liked the grape one. I liked this variegation with that soft white color instead of that harsh yellow and green. So I grabbed a couple because I wanted to see how they would do. And I really like the flowers on them. It's a nice purple, nice kind of purplish pink, shade of purple. Look at all the detail inside the throat. Yeah, it's nice. I like it. I'll go ahead and do this one now since it's in the way of everything else. Nice big leaf. Do you recognize it? Pretty common, but I don't see them for sale up here that often. It's just a Thai giant elephant ear, that Leucocasia gigantea. That one's Colocasia. Yeah, nine feet high and big. These get really, really big. These probably have the biggest leaves. Not probably. These definitely have the biggest leaves of all of the Colocasia. It's not a Colocasia, it's a Leucocasia, but you know, whatever. I grabbed two of these. Like I said, the prices were so freaking good on their elephant ears, on everything in there, but they had an amazing selection of elephant ears. So I actually, I got several, right? I got two of the Colocasia giganteas, and then over here I got, I think I have two of these, right? These are the boas. Boa has a thin stem on it and then a really narrow, long kind of lance-shaped leaf on them. Yeah, I got two of them right here. I like the boas. I think these were like $7.99 or something like that. Whatever it was, it was a good price. It was such a good variety, too. It wasn't just a great price. They had a lot of different elephant ears to choose from, which I thought was pretty cool, because usually they're just, you know, a couple, and it's your typical like white kikis and maybe, you know, a black diamond and just a regular green. But they had a really good assortment of some more unusual types, which I thought was nice. Really nice. And they're really nice and sturdy, healthy plants, too. So whenever I'm buying a smaller Elocasia or Colocasia, I like to do the wiggle test with it very gently, and I'm not trying to destroy anybody's inventory, right? Just carefully. You have the plant to wiggle, and I look for a nice, sturdy stem. And these have very nice, sturdy, strong stems. And see, it's even got some girth to it, right? Thick and pretty, really pretty stems, too. Sometimes Elocasias, when they haven't been rooted into their containers properly, they will just basically just melt when you plant them up. You'll get them potted up, and then they just kind of, because they didn't have the right root system. They weren't ready to be potted up. So yeah, try and find nice, sturdy plants. This is a perilla, right? Oh, it's a perilla, yeah. I almost said pericollis. Different plant. Grow it like you do a coleus. Just has really pretty foliage on it. That's it. It just looked nice. And oh, the variety you might want to know. It's just purple. One of the medjillas, very common. I'm sure you've seen these around. It makes for a nice filler. Another plant that makes for a good filler, or really thriller. This is a protector. I've never seen that before. It's just a Persian shield. Stroblanthes diurnus. Awesome plants. These make a decent houseplant. I'm going to do my best this year to remember to just take it inside. I'll have it planted up with some other things. You know, it usually gets thrown into a container, like, you know, underneath a palm tree or something like that. But there really isn't a good reason to not just dig them up and bring them in, because they do fine in a container in the house. They might lose their leaves, but they usually sprout them back within a few weeks after losing them. Good plant. Cindy's lismachia. I don't think I've seen this called that before. Oh, maybe the golden globe. It's a variegated lismachia. That's a nice one. Gets the little yellow flowers on it. Really pretty yellow flowers. These were in a section that was for fairy gardens. So that's why I'm just saying, I don't know about that name. Oh, that's a congestiflora. There you go. Lismachia congestiflora. Good trailer. Good speller. Really nice color. Doesn't that look nice? Yes. Yes. I think it looks great. Great color on that one. Oh, another alocasia right here. This one is the golden bone, which I was thinking this was a different plant when I got it. And I got home and I looked up golden bone. I was like, oh, wait, no, that's not. I don't really care about this one. It's fine and it'll be pretty, but it's not what I was thinking of. You know, I have a golden dragon and I thought I was grabbing another golden dragon, which is stupid. This looks nothing like the golden dragon at all. But I was like, well, it's just really tiny. I know what they look like when they're tiny. Mine was tiny when I got it, too. But it's neat. So I'm still happy that I have it. And then I have a couple of hostas in here. And what's left? A couple more trailers and have some big plants over here. They had a really nice selection of hostas. Hopefully you have seen that. This one right here, Emperor's New Clothes. This is a really cool hosta. I'm actually surprised that I only got one of these. I wonder why. Oh, look, it's got slugs, too. Get that out of here. Well, he can stay. It's fine. It's fine. This is a fairly stiff-leafed hosta. Slugs need to eat, too, right? So Emperor's New Clothes. I'll hold that still for you. You can get a look at the variegation on that. Isn't it awesome? Really, really cool hosta. The size of this one, I think it's under 20, right? 24 inches tall. So it's a good size, too. Let's say 24, 21. 21. All right. Heights are always variable with these things anyway. Spaced from 36 to 42 inches apart, 3 through 9. That's pretty typical hosta stuff. The main thing with this one is it just has a really cool variegation on it. I picked one that was nice and firm in the pot. So it's got a good root system. Looks like there's two plants in there. The selection of hostas was really, really good. I've only been one place ever that had a better selection of hostas. That video, I don't know if it will have been out yet. I don't think it will have. Coming up. You guys just wait. Really cool hosta nursery I went to. Oh, this is a fairly common one. Avocado. It's a hosta that I really like. I wanted to have around in the garden. Has a more of an upright habit to its leaf. Really pretty variegation on it. And it gets fairly tall, too, doesn't it? I believe this one goes like 24 to 30 inches tall. The leaves are a little bit more rounded than some of the other hosta leaves. They're not quite as long and strappy. It's sort of a big, fat, chonky leaf. And that's probably the better picture I'll be showing you guys. Yeah, take it out. Look at the tag. Tag's a better representation. Hostas, when they're smaller in these little pots, you just kind of get an idea of what they're going to look like, but not really the growth habit. I'm a sucker for hostas, and my eyes lit up when I walked around that corner and saw the hosta section. Because one, it was just a ton of beautiful hostas. Two, amazing prices. And three, this is such a good selection. And it was displayed so beautifully. There were so many to choose from. And I like those prices. There were so many of them. All right. This guy right here. I don't know if I should have gotten this one, but I'm happy that I have it. It's a Lemmiestrom. Jade Frost Lemmiestrom. Really nice trailer. I believe these are even perennial, right? Does this say on here? I'm pretty sure that it's a perennial, but I think it can be pretty aggressive. Well, it's not giving a zone. It's from ball flow, ball plant, ball seed right here. They do a lot of the plants on here. Yeah, I don't know. I'm pretty sure that this one is one that will return. So I want to space it properly. Look at that variegation on it. That's why I got it. Because what a nice trailer. That silver variegation, you know, like a Lamium, but a trailing Lamium, Lemmiestrom. So it's not the same thing, but kind of the same thing. I'm just looking for the appeal of the foliage there. Really nice color. Has a good shimmer, especially when there's some more light out. It's pretty dark today. It's got some heavy cloud cover. You see that, right? And they're nice big leaves too. Really big leaves. So this would be good over a really large, large pot. I think that would look good coming over the front. That's gonna be pretty during the summer. And I think it'll look nice during the fall too. Just a nice vine. The next over here, these I'm really excited about. I don't know if you all will be as excited as I was. They only had two of them. That's why I only have two of them. If they had had more, I probably would have gotten every single one that they had. Look at it. Look at it. Isn't it beautiful? It's so pretty. This is just variegated basketgrass, which is a very common, common, common, common plant. An annual. And very invasive, by the way, in some places. Not here where I live. Pretty sure I even did a video on these a long, long, long time ago. Because they're very pretty. And there was a lot of controversy when I'd mentioned in a video how much I like these because people got upset about the invasive nature of them. I had to remind people I don't live in an area where these are invasive. That's not a problem. But the nurseries around here still stopped selling them years ago. And I don't know if it was because of the invasive nature of them. Because that's not new. These have been listed as a plant that's invasive in a lot of places for a very, very, very long time. But it was only like within the last, I don't know, eight years, something like that, that the nurseries just don't really carry them anymore. In fact, this first time I've seen one in a nursery in probably the last, I don't know, seven or eight years. It's been a very long time. So that's why I nabbed up the only two that they had. These are a great trailer. Again, just to emphasize, nobody comes for me. Don't buy this if you don't know what status where you live. So just type in your name and the name of the, your name, your state, the name of the plant. Look it up. Do your research. There's a really good option that looks like this, not invasive, at least not in most places, called Bridal Veil, which I think is oftentimes sold just as the same plant. Sometimes you'll find this being sold as Bridal Veil. Sometimes you'll find Bridal Veil that's actually, you know, you got them saying, they mix them up. But in my opinion, this is much nicer because it has more of an airy quality to it. The leaves are just a smidge further apart on the stems and they're not as snappy. Bridal Veil is very snappy. This is not as snappy. And this will droop really far. So if you put this in a hanging basket, that'll come down several feet. I've had them go as far as like four or five feet, a really nice dangle to them. And they're just really airy. There's something kind of ethereal about that, about that airiness, you know, the nice long narrow leaves and then the spacing. It allows you to have some air movement, some airflow. It's an excellent annual. I am going to be keeping one of these in a hanging basket by itself and that's going to be like my baby. It's just going to be its own plant and I will harvest off of that. This is why I want to use it in containers in the future. And I got one to go ahead and just pop into a container and use as an annual. So I'll just pop this in one of my pots and let it grow over the front and, you know, it'll be fine. A good way, if you're worried about invasive nature with this, is just don't let it come in contact with soil. That's how they spread rhizomatic. They, I mean, they'll flower kind of and spread that way, but it's mostly from this part right here. So they come in contact with the soil, then they spread and take off. So just don't let them do that and you'll be fine. Wow, I oversimplified that. If a piece breaks off and gets into an area where the soil is nice and moist and it could take off, you know, it could still be an issue. If it's invasive, you just really shouldn't buy it, right? Don't get it if it's going to eat your lawn alive. Okay, three more. Aren't they pretty? The prices were so freaking good. These are like usually 45 to 60 bucks over here on this side of the river or in the city, I should say, and the county, but I think these were 32 or 37 a piece. They are nice, nice big plants. These are perennials. This one right here had a little bit of damage. We had a storm and a palm tree fell on top of it, but it's all right. It's a really sturdy plant. It'll, you know, snap back. This is a gingerwine ninebark right here. There you go. That's the name. Isn't it pretty? Beautiful plant, really great perennial. It's a part of full sun zones, three through seven, five to six feet tall. So it's not one of the ones that gets absolutely mad. So it's a good controllable size and the color, it just has amazing color, doesn't it? Really pretty. I actually really like how this looks over here with this plant too. It's this nice glossy foliage on this guy. Do you recognize this one? I've wanted one of these for a while. It doesn't have a tag on it. It's a Carolina allspice, which is a proven winner's plant. Oh gosh, just getting eaten alive over here. Starting to itch. Really pretty. Big glossy green leaves on them. They get a really big red flower on them. The proven winner's one does have a specific name to it. I don't remember what it is. I have no idea. And since it doesn't have a tag, I can't tell you. Maybe it's just the Carolina allspice. No? That's weird. Callicanthus. The Aphrodite. Aphrodite sweet shrub. That's what this guy is. This one right here is supposed to be highly fragrant. I planted one of these, just a Callicanthus, wasn't the Aphrodite. Why can't I say Aphrodite? There we go. I was going to say Aphrovite, like I was trying to say Arborvitae, but that's not what happened. Anyways, I planted one years ago over in my north garden, what's kind of a northwest facing spot, and it was enough sun for it. One of the reasons that I like Callicanthus is because they're pretty versatile as far as sun goes, typically, but there just wasn't enough sun for it. And I know that this is said to be like a four hours or more per day. I would go like the more on that one. They go 5 to 10 feet tall, beautiful glossy foliage. They look like an evergreen, but they are not. And these will supposedly flower for you like late spring through frost. I don't know how much truth there is to that because mine never really grew that well because it wasn't getting enough sun. So this one's going to be going in a spot where we get a lot more light than the other ones that I had tried, which was just a regular Callicanthus, wasn't the Aphrodite type. Fragrance, people note it all over the place. I know I've heard people say it smells like pineapples, and they'll say apple, banana, and I think from Proven Winners they were saying like those are maybe bubble gum was one that they had listed on. It's been a while since I read up on this one, and some don't smell anything at all. It has a really pretty red flower on. This kind of gives me magnolia vibes, kind of like the banana shrub, which is a magnolia-esque plant that we can't grow here. It's more of a zone 8 and up type of plant, but uh, well, it's not that. It looks just tropical. And I like the versatility, and it's a sturdy plant. Pollinators enjoy them. Might end up being fragrant. I don't know, but I have seen these when they get larger, and they just look beautiful. Even when they don't have flowers on them, I just like the shape to them, the glossiness of the foliage. I like shiny green foliage a lot, and I like the way these look together too. I think it'd be pretty to have one or two of these in the garden with a few of these in the front, but maybe one of the others. There's another nine bar, can't remember the name of it, but it stays smaller and keeps that hedge, although these don't really, nine bars don't take to pruning all that well, so I don't know, maybe not that. I just like the shiny green with the red next to it. Really excited about, I'm, I'm excited about the nine bark. I'm really excited about this. With the nine bark, I just haven't bought because the price, I was like, it's not juicy and worth the squeeze around here, but uh, for that price and the size and the fit, okay, let's go ahead and give one a try. I could use some more color out here, so that's why I have that. Next, and lastly, look at that. Beautiful flowers, right? Very pretty. Isn't it pretty? Camellia Pattens. I cannot remember the common name on this one. Is it just called a fireworks plant? Oh, it's the Camellia Pattens. Really awesome tropical shrub. You can grow these, I believe, in zone eight, I'm pretty sure. Uh, really fast growers. Hummingbirds love these. I haven't seen these for sale, not where I live, in a few years. They used to come up with the tropicals with like the hibiscus and stuff every year. It was pretty common to see them at the nurseries, but it's been a while since I've seen them, so I'm gonna try and hold on to this one. These overwinter very well for me in my grow space. I put them kind of on the darker side, and I don't really water them. I just let them hang out, let them stay dry and dark, like I do my Brugmansias and Lantanas, Bougainvillea, those things. I just let it stay more on the dry side, and it, you know, loses a lot of its leaves, just turns into sticks, but flushes back out when it gets warm outside. And I can usually get a good amount of growth on these too, so this little guy hopefully will be about, I'd say, I don't know, three to four feet tall by the time it's ready to take it inside and just covered in these tube-shaped flowers. This is kind of in between its flower sets right now. You can see that right there. Really nice color to it, a good texture. They are somewhat pendulous where they hang off of the plant, and again, this is one that I like to have around for the pollinators, because they just go nuts for it. I have a lot of sub-plants out here for the pollinators, but I have noticed that, like, Coupia and these things, hummingbirds go nuts for them. I already have all the gingers and other things, honeysuckles, trumpets, but, you know, doesn't hurt to have more, especially with one that's very easy to overwinter, and it's just easy to grow in general. They like a lot of sun, and they'll be drought-torn, but if you can give them lots of moisture, they will grow and respond to it. But you have to have well-draining as well. It needs to be warm, and they need to be getting a lot of sun in order to be getting much moisture, because they can rot. On that note, I think that this pot, well, it has a hole in the bottom. Well, it had a lot of water pouring out of it, so maybe that hole's clogged up, so I'm Actually, all of these, I can get potted up basically now. I've been waiting for a palm tree delivery, which they showed up yesterday, so that would, if things look different out here than the videos you've been watching recently, then that's, well, that's why, because it was just being filmed in the past. But yeah, usually pot that up. They don't even need to go into that larger container, so I just punch my microphone. Generally, I would probably take this up to, like, a, I don't know, 12 to 14 inch pot. It doesn't need to be very big. I put it on drip and just boom. Explosive growth. Everything I got, it's a pretty good grower. I don't know about the Emperor's New Clothes hosta. Haven't grown that one before, or that grape variegated petunia. I'm usually disappointed with the variegated petunia, so, you know, we will see on that golden bone elochesia, which is cool, but, you know, it's not what I thought it was, but still gonna be fun to grow it. Thanks for hanging out. Let me know if you've been in this nursery, Creekside Nursery. I think you should check it out. If you haven't been there, go check it out. He said they're not that far from St. Louis at all. I was like, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes over the bridge, maybe, if even. It's not far from the world's largest ketchup bottle, which I did go out of the way to see it, because I was like, well, I want to see that. It's a water towel. It's, it's not, it's not a ketchup bottle. It's a water tower, but hey, neat stuff. Great nursery, and I love that the nursery was covered. We're not gonna, I don't know what I'm gonna say in the voiceover, so I won't be redundant there. All right, hey, thanks for hanging out. Hope everybody's doing well. Have a great day. Great library. It's going absolutely beautifully for you.