Spring Containers/Garden Style nw

[Music] hi everybody Debbie here with Garden style so today we are finally going to talk about containers and I'm going to show you a couple designs that I have come up with and maybe that'll inspire you to do the same or come up with some of your own uh but first before I get started just wanted to let you know we've kind of had a cool week this past week and what I mean by that is low to mid 70s today we are actually in the mid-60s so if you're transplanting or planting up containers that is like perfect weather and today I've kind of been dodging raindrops a little bit as we've had rain showers kind of moving in and moving out then the Sun comes out you know one of those days uh typical spring day so this is a perfect time to start putting some things into the ground um and this coming week it's supposed to say stay fairly cool so any transplants or any type of planting that you're doing at all in the yard or in containers this is a perfect time to do it because they are not going to have near as much shock um as they make their transition into a new home so for containers I kind of have three rules and you guys have probably heard these rules before but to make a nice balanced container you want a thriller a filler and a Spiller so what do I mean by that so for this first container that I have tried out I'm going to introduce you to a plant here um and it's not blooming yet but this particular one um is called a Veronica elene and this is actually a perennial and this is going to be my Thriller plant because it stands taller and it'll probably sit towards the back of my container being you only see it from like three sides um if you were seeing a container from all four sides then you probably want to choose the middle but for me I'm going to choose the the back of the container and it'll grow a little taller than everybody else but the EVN Veronica is a beautiful perennial flower they come out with these lovely um spikes on them like this and it'll bloom all summer long as long as you keep it deadheaded it'll just keep sending up new flowers so that was my chosen Thriller and and I'll tell you a little bit about it it'll get about 15 to 18 in high it'll get about a foot wide this is very hearty down to Zone 4 so it'll probably survive staying in a pot during the winter time at least I'm hoping it will because I don't want to keep changing them out every year but uh I chose this one CU I've had really good luck with them out in the garden and I decided I would go ahead and put this in my containers it's a very long blooming plant um uh of course it likes full sun uh the two containers that I'm going to be showing you today will be in the full sun um at least five or 6 hours one of them will probably get Morning Sun for about four or five hours until it Dives behind the house and it'll end up in the shade but that's okay um it's not going to hurt them a bit as long as they get four or five hours they'll Bloom just fine for you so I thought I would introduce you to this first one uh evelene Veronica and that will be towards the back of the container as my Thriller and then I have several filler type plants this first one that I'm going to show you is actually an annual in our neck of the woods here in the Northwest but I grew this last year and fell in love with this plant because it just bloomed its heart out and the hummingbirds absolutely love it they will be all over this thing once it's in full bloom but you can see where it started a little bit of a flower here but this is called sweet talk red kfia and that's kind of the tag to it right there kind of gives you an idea but I love the petals on it and it kind of has a purple on the very inside and it just blooms and blooms and blooms and of course loves the full sun um and it's fairly drought tolerant too so I was happy to see that in fact it doesn't like wet feet all the plants that I'm putting together here can handle kind of the same conditions in the container but this particular plant will take sun to part shade it gets about 8 to 14 in tall and just as wide uh of course it's only Hardy to zone 9 which is why it would be an annual here in the Northwest um but again very long blooming and that's going to give me those flowers and some extra color in there I figured with the Veronica which is kind of a blue violet this red with the Violet on the inside would be kind of really pretty with it um so that's my other one that I'm showing you kfia and kfia come in all kinds of colors um a lot of them have been nicknamed like the cigar plant you can get them in orange and red and they have long tubular flowers on them these aren't as tubular which is one of the reasons I really like it it doesn't seem to bother the hummingbirds any they they come for it anyway but anyway that became a favorite of mine and then another one which is considered an annual here in the Northwest is this one and this is called gumina and you can get these in Reds and purples um but these have really become popular and you're starting to see more and more of them on the market so hopefully you can find them but you'll see they have neat little globular globular globular round Tye flowers on them and this is another one that just blooms it's a little hard out but I love the color um and this of course is considered an annual here in the Northwest it likes full sun it'll grow about 10 maybe 24 in tall um and of course Blooms from early summer till Frost and it is called gumina and this happens to be pinball purple which which was really pretty and the main reason I chose this plant is because of this next one here and that's this one look at this I'm starting to play with Silvers and Grays a little bit more in the garden as well as in my containers and this is actually considered a succulent but when I saw the two of them together it sang to me so I decided I wanted to put these two together in the same container along with some of the others here and I'm kind of going to over this container a little bit um and that's okay if you've got you know some annuals in there cuz they're not going to last anyway and then I'll have the perennials in here and believe it or not this little succulent here cesio and this is called angel wings and it's become a real popular favorite at the nursery um and you can put this in the garden or in containers but it's just got a soft like real furry Leaf to it and it's pretty tough it loves hot sun um it can so dry in between waterings but the really cool thing about it it's pretty tough up here in the Northwest I've had these come back for me um in fact I had one come back for me just this last spring but this one uh will take full sun to part shade uh grows about 14 in tall blooms in the summer and it is so not giving me a Zone on this tag but I can tell you it's Hardy down to Zone 7 um cuz I've had my other ones last uh throughout the winter for me they might look a little ratty after the winter time and I just trim off all the yucky leaves and it will more than make up for it uh once it starts to receive some heat and some sun so cesio angel wings that's a really cool Plant so that'll be going in the container as well and then of course to top everything off you always have to have a trailer or a Spiller coming out of the container and I chose these right here you guys are probably all very familiar with this this is a potato vine and this particular one is called solar power line heart and these are considered annuals as well however if you pull these out in the fall you will see there's like little miniature potatoes attached to the bottoms of them you can start new plants with those and I have left them in my pots and by golly if not by the next spring I see them sprouting again so it just depends um this was also a protected container it was sitting underneath um a roof line on a porch but I decided I like these because I really like the deeply cut leaves on on them uh and it's just really pretty and you'll notice most of these plants are in a court size um and I kind of wanted to make a comment about that is by the time we start to pass through Mother's Day a lot of The Growers that we get our annuals from start to up poot a lot of their 2in and 4in plants so it gets harder and harder as you start to go into June to find 4in annuals if you do they'll probably be in a quart size pot we call this an annual Court um a regular perennial court is a lot bigger than this but this is the next size up that they plant them in and you can see why they just start to grow like crazy um which is what they're supposed to do um once you start to see the roots coming out the bottom so the Growers before they start to ship them to us out at the nurseries a lot of times they'll have to up poot them and put them in a bigger pot just so they'll survive um but it also makes for a beautiful very fluffy plant when you go to put it in your containers so I don't mind cork containers at all um they cost a little more than a 4 inch but I also don't have to wait as long for them to fill out so don't be afraid to buy those bigger sizes cuz for me it's instant gratification and I just felt I would explain to you a little bit why you see less and less of like the four packs or six packs that plants come in after Mother's Day or even 4inch plants a lot of times they're they're up potting those quickly because those roots are growing so fast and The Growers of course are fertilizing them like every day and watering them and they're perfect conditions in a greenhouse so you know the plants are doing what they're supposed to do which is grow like crazy okay so I wanted to introduce you to the plants that I am putting into this particular container and now you get the fun part of watching me do the work so here we go [Music] [Music] okay there it is in all its Glory so you can see the Thriller towards the back the Veronica and of course we have the cesio the Gina the potato vine and what's peeking out the back there is the kfia so hope to follow up with you guys later to show you the complete end result once everything is in full-on bloom but this is a nice start and for me this is called instant gratification when your containers are filled already now right next door I planted this container uh about a week or so ago and this is one where I did a little experiment and I hid the tags back here in the back of the container so that I could tell you what all the plants are on the inside here as I get them all out here we go so right off the bat you can tell what the Thriller is in this container and this would be as soon as I find this tag here we go in the very very back here I have a Cana and this is a Tropicana Cana um there's the tag to it right there and this will get pretty tall so he's sitting in the back you may not be able to see him a whole lot right now but uh he'll get they can get up to four to 5et tall which I'm plan on controlling his height just so that he doesn't get that tall but uh yeah and they'll come out with a beautiful kind of a salmon orange uh type of flower but I love the leaves on them aren't they gorgeous with the stripes in them kind of an orange stripe and then this next Plant right here this is actually considered a house plant but this is a thae plant and this happens to be the Deep pink thae plants you can get them in green as well um but I just love its structure and its color and decided to put him right smack in the middle and the Cana will come up behind him a little later on and then hiding out here in the corner this one over here is called kfia it doesn't have a blooms on them yet but that's kfia Dynamite is the name of that annual that's in there and then a little further down we have got a petunia in there and this one just happens to be super tunia Vista fuchsia so it's going to be like a real deep fuchsia color which will help pick up the colors in the thae plant itself and then I fly around to the bottom here there's the trailer or the Spiller of potato vine and then right next door I put in uh super Bell's pomegranate punch which will also help pick up a lot of the color that you see in the thae plant and then right around the other side I have got the colus and this particular colus is Kong junor Rose and I absolutely am in love with foliage there but it kind of adds kind of a tropical feel and once this all starts to fill out I will definitely follow up with you folks and um let you know how all this turned out but what I'm going to do with the tie plant uh later on is I will dig it up and I'll bring it inside treat it like a house plant and I'll probably put it right back out here again uh next spring just cuz I'm so in love with them uh so don't be afraid to peruse the house plant section and find something um that you really like um it's all about the foliage of course with this particular plant and uh yeah don't be afraid to go pick out something you really like and mix it in with the rest of your plants in your containers by the time you get warm enough at night these plants will do just fine so anyway just wanted to encourage you guys to experiment a little bit all right you guys so there's some container ideas for you um I've been extremely busy of course out here in the yard doing some other things and something I was going to show you that's going on here in the backyard that we're going to solve by by tomorrow so take a walk with me one of my favorite trees did not make it through the winter and I have a feeling I know why if I goes way up you're going to see I have two fur trees that died last summer I noticed they were dropping all their leaves like crazy in August and sure enough by this spring nothing so I've got some tree guys coming out tomorrow and they're going to take those two trees out as well as the one right next door that's still green CU we're all afraid that they have a disease we've been noticing trees like this especially Furs kind of randomly dying in the middle of nowhere um so we're afraid this may happen to that tree it's either a disease or it may be the same thing that one of my favorite trees is suffering from which was a viburnum tree it had been here a long time time at least 30 years um well maybe not quite that long I think 27 27 years and was one of my favorite trees in the yard but last summer we went about 6 months with no rain and I have a feeling they either got super dry and never recovered um kind of like these fur trees did or it's some sort of a disease and I can't imagine that the viburnum was the one suffering from a disease this is a really old shrub tree to begin with most vims come out shrubs but this one just happened to be old enough to where it got tall and turned into a tree and it was beautiful so I will be filming some of this tomorrow the guys have to get a spidey lift and go way up there and start taking them from the top down but uh yeah this is one of those things just made me sick to my stomach when I saw it just did not make it well you know it's an opportunity I'll go out and I don't think I'll put another tree here I think it'll just be a really nice beautiful sh maybe something that will sister up real nicely with this drop dead gorgeous weila look at that it is just absolutely stunning right here so I'll have to come up with something for this corner haven't quite decided yet but uh just thought I'd share that with you guys and I'll probably film it and um show you in my next video the before and the after all right you guys I hope you've had an excellent spring so far I still have so many more things that I want to cover with you guys I'm definitely going to cover some new plants um that make great additions to the Garden uh the shade garden as well as the pollinator Garden that I currently have going um so those of you who are interested in doing pollinator Gardens I will definitely introduce you to some new plants that will be spectacular for pollinators throughout the summertime and uh and then a really cool Shea Garden plant actually there's a couple of them which are starting to come into their Glory right now so looking forward to doing that with you all right you guys of course I hope you're having a fabulous spring so far and if you have any comments or questions you can leave those in the description box down below um trying to think if there's anything else I need to cover at this point I don't think so you'll find the names to the plants that I just put into the containers uh both containers as a matter of fact down in the uh bottom box in the under the more section in the description box I can get all that out and that's about all I have for you um of course questions comments you can leave those and you can sign up for our newsletter at Sunny Crush nursery.com uh new ones getting ready to pop out as of tomorrow as a matter of fact to cover the rest of the month of May we have Memorial weekend coming up already if you can believe that that's insane it's going to be June here before we know it so and there's just a whole another bag of TR tricks that I have waiting for you guys for the month of June so meanwhile keep those hands dirty and we'll talk soon bye for now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music]