Fall Garden Tour at Spring Meadow | Gardening with Creekside

Recently Jerry & I were fortunate to take a fall garden tour of the private trial gardens of Spring Meadow Nursery in Michigan. Spring Meadow is the home to the Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs and these gardens are the final trials that the shrubs must go through before being added to the Proven Winners' inventory. Join us for a walk through this gorgeous garden as we see it for the first time in the fall.
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Creekside Nursery
181 Pine Hollow Dr
Dallas, NC, 28034

[@gardensnob1]

My gosh! How beautiful! It’s so neat to see these plants at maturity! Very much appreciate the hospitality of Spring Meadows! 👏

[@mildredkrisik8888]

Compliments to your trustworthy and competent staff who allow you to go on these wonderful visits to gardens and other nurseries. Great camera work gets us up close to the beautiful blooms. And Jenny, a five hour video would be fine - I'll just make a big pot of tea!

[@ivyandroses25]

You are a wonderful tour guide, Jenny! I could watch this all day! Always so helpful to see these plants at maturity so you can really envision designing with them. 💚

[@williamgloster5321]

Dr.

[@kaylac3367]

😂🤣😂🤣 You and that black squirrel!!! And he was talking to you! I've never seen one either. Interesting. It's a treat to see all the hydrangeas with the mature pinks that we don't get in the south. Beautiful! I'm glad you pointed out their planting style. It's always nice to see other styles to maybe incorporate a little in our own gardens. Thanks for the treat.

[@mrs.m4702]

Ahhhhh…basking in God’s awesome creations! Thanks, Jenny❤️!

[@MyBackyardScience]

The Spring Meadow gardens are so beautiful! 😀

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Yes they are!

[@SnappyR]

Thank you so much for this tour of Spring Meadows - these gardens are stunning! Jenny - you didn't skip a beat with your commentary and Jerry did a great job on the camera side of things - you guys are such an awesome team♥

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thank you so much!

[@alw5101]

LoL Jenny you are hilarious- “I just saw a black squirrel !🐿 I did, I did,I FID SEE A BLACK SQUIRREL !!”🐿 Yes Jenny your eyes are not fussing with you.. we do have black squirrels 🐿 we call them our backyard pets because they are so adorable and smart and very easily trained with the right kind of treats🖤🐾🥜

[@GardenRetriever]

What a beautiful place! If hydrangea had a heaven...

[@JeffSueBell195]

Thanks for sharing this Beautiful garden with us. I am so inspired! Just beautiful!!! I just purchased a temple of bloom tree this spring and cant wait for it to mature. The bark will give winter interest as well. Again, thanks for bringing us along on this tour.

[@mariensanchez2475]

So beautiful, thanks 👍

[@JLee-pc2vc]

I'd never seen a black squirrel either. Very cool! In other videos, I've heard you say "squirrel!" as in a moment when you get distracted by something and find yourself off task. Today you had a squirrel moment with an actual squirrel! 🤣 🐿🐿🐿

[@bohnnco]

Those completely perfect hydrangeas would almost make it worth suffering through a Michigan winter. 😁 I’m jealous!

[@bettenotap4791]

Oh, the Soft Serve false cypress, I have to get me one of those! So glad you pointed out the more mature size. 👏🏻 Gorgeous! What a great tour in the fall season! Nice to see examples closer to my planting zone.

[@ElderandOakFarm]

Beautiful tour! Love watching videos like thos for inspiration! I'm still very much learning when it comes to garden bed design!

[@jenniferhooks2454]

I lived outside of Kalamazoo, about an hour from Spring Meadow Nursery. You are getting to see Michigan in her best season. We lived in Michigan for 10 years, and fall was my favorite season, short though it was. The weather is beautiful this time of year. It was great to see how the panicle hydrangeas perform in their “native” habitat. My Limelights just go from creamy white to brown. I was glad to learn from you that I had not done anything wrong. My Firelights just go brown also. Sort of disappointing, but I am realizing the heat and humidity of coastal NC causes plants to perform differently. Thanks for showing us those lovely garden spaces. They are well planned and well laid out but they don’t appear stiff and formal. Truly beautiful!!!!

[@deezahm9143]

☕️Good morning, Jenny and Jerry and all viewing friends. What a stunning display the Primes provide. Just amazing the size of the flowers! Thank you for a lovely start to my day - coffee with Creekside is the best happy time of any day 🌻🍂🍁🧡

[@Edu_Kate]

I'm glad we got to see the primes at maturity. I didn't realize they grew so tall. I am adjusting my plans and may need to plant one of the Invinciballs instead.

[@GardenHappy]

Oh wow!!! Absolutely BREATHTAKING!!! Your garden tours are always spectacular. Thank you for sharing Jenny!! 🧡❤️💜💙💚

[@jillr759]

I feel the same way, what a video!

[@cgzone8]

What an outstanding tour w/you. We've seen big, but not that big. Enjoy your adventure, hi Jerry. cgzone8

[@GALERYKICAU]

Beautiful plants, all very neatly arranged, making us unable to look away, thank you for sharing good luck always and keep the spirit ❤️❤️❤️

[@geaizee9204]

Absolutely gorgeous! I am not picking at you, I loved the color is worth the pain! Thank you to the owner for letting you share their garden with us.

[@diannplatt-roberts8692]

So enjoyed your tour. Live in Michigan on the west side but only moved here 7 years ago so not familiar with these gardens at all. What fun!

[@artworld9799]

So beautiful place 🔔👈🏼🌿🌴🎉🎉

[@terrivance8750]

Jenny, Just wanted to say I enjoyed this garden tour a HUUUGE amount! 😉😁

[@pn8280]

Love all the hydrangeas! In my Michigan garden, Little Quick Fire is my earliest blooming paniculata…it beats out Quick Fire Fab by a couple of weeks, both in full sun.

[@sandyellis4387]

Thank you for sharing

[@marialamm5722]

Thanks Jenny for the shout out about our Barberry. You remembered correctly they are under a Limelight tree. They thrived in the major heat we had this summer.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

I promise we are coming to do a garden tour! Can't wait to see your garden in person❤️

[@Edu_Kate]

Jenny and Jerry, I just love all the great videos you produce for us. You are so informative and keep them interesting. I'm glad you got to come back in another time of the season to show us the beautiful fall color show.

[@elizabethmitchell0071]

Beautiful!! Im in nc zone 8a, so I don't get that late pink aged color here either..but the hydrangeas do hang on a bit longer vs aging in the blooms..i have several and are gorgeous.. i definitely recommend southern gardners to have them regardless ❤

[@victoriafoley3958]

Love this tour! In the Midwest we have some black squirrels and one town has white squirrels. Fascinating.

[@rubylackey9814]

Lol hi Jenny I live in Eastpointe, Michigan. Squirrel Heaven. We have every colors Squirrel there is. Gray with brown tails ,black,brown. My neighbors love feeding them.

[@sueknee8813]

What a beautiful garden!!!

[@marilynbaldwin2934]

How beautiful! Especially the hydrangeas im partial to them! A awesome video and Jenny always narrating is great!

[@noellaq8056]

Thank you for the tour. You’ll have to take us back in 3 years when the newer plants are more mature. Great tour! If you can eventually find the name of the beautiful evergreens you stood next to at 22:11, I would appreciate it. Or, maybe, next time.

[@pconan1]

You are funny! You made a very good point with the thorns. Thanks for this beautiful tour

[@matthewhayes3142]

so many folks call those trees dr suess trees, they are weeping alaskan cedars. there's another variety of the weeping alaskan cedar that grows very tight, 2-4 ft across, those are called green arrows. but what's in this garden are weeping alaskan cedars - one of my favorite trees. i am working on a client property and planting four 10 gallon green arrows into a berm, presently they are 5 ft tall. the first tree installed was a 50 gallon weeping alaskan cedar, 15 ft tall out of the container into the ground.

[@pamelawillis6036]

I saw a black squirrel the other day! They're not plentiful around here....but we have all 3 colors

[@northeasthardytropicals541]

The pink blooms are phenomenal

[@Blake.Cooper]

Thanks for the tour! FANTASTIC!! 😉😁🤩

[@ritasicari7518]

The Dr. Seuss trees are weeping Alaskan cedars.

[@laurajeffcoat4731]

Those trees are gorgeous I would love to have a mass planting of them

[@alw5101]

LoL Jenny your hilarious! “I just saw a black squirrel 🐿 y’all... I did I did i did see a black Squirrel !”🐿 Yes Jenny we have black squirrels up here in the north hahahahaha we have them as backyard pets they are quit sweet and friendly and can be easily trained with the right treats 😊

[@lynnschantz9185]

Welcome back to Michigan Jenny and Jerry.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thank you❣️

[@blk123]

Barberries are beautiful but I was always getting thorns in my hands. I pulled them out, but seeing yours makes me want some again.

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thanks Jenny. They truly are beautiful gardens. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃

[@debbismirnoff1424]

👍♥️thank you!

[@Pervydachny]

This is a stunning garden with beautiful and varied plants. Thanks for the wonderful trip👍🌻💙

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@BramptonGardener]

This was absolutely gorgeous. this is on the bucketlist!!!!

[@ninavessell5491]

Hey 👋 Jen it’s always a treat to watch your video. Love the information you share with your viewers happy gardening 👩‍🌾 ❤

[@robertagrigsby9051]

The Allendale Garden Club would tour his yard periodically. I really miss that since I moved across the state. Enjoyed seeing it again in your video! Thank you!

[@juliabinford6500]

That’s such a fantastic garden, shown off so well by you! Thank you!

[@HappyLittleSushiRoll]

We had some severely overgrown and poorly kept Wintergreen Barberry bushes that were over 8-10ft lining our neighbors property line against our narrow driveway. The undergrowth was a jumbled nuisance network of 2 and a half inch tri-thorned leave-less twigs. We had to prune them often on our side as their new growth would quickly grow to the utility lines and into our car park multiple times a season. I really think they were just in the wrong place for their thorny nature, and they grew out of hand without proper shaping before we got a hold of the property. After our elderly neighbor tried to hard prune them to help us with getting control of a pruning schedule, she ended up scoffing at the task and asking us to cut them completely to the crowns to dig them out, then paid to have it all hauled off. My husband and I are very glad she decided that. Maybe one day I’d give them a try for their beautiful color. But for now, I’m traumatized and sworn off the Barberries; even if there are much softer and less brush-like varieties.

[@tinablum9089]

Thank you, very inspirational!!

[@josiehollerbach4429]

What a beautiful garden Jenny. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@lindabaker4038]

Wow, I drooled all the way through this video and didn't want it to end! Fantastic job by you and Jerry!

[@nicholletobin]

What a beautiful and magical tour! Love It!!

[@lonaphillips9617]

Informative video and beautiful too!

[@Victoria-pt6ll]

This was great! Always enjoy your videos and that squirrel 🐿 moment was golden. ❤😊

[@Edu_Kate]

I've never seen a black squirrel 🐿️ We often have a white one in my neighborhood. I thought those were also rare.

[@judymiddleswart9350]

Wow how beautiful!!!!

[@beckyscheller9358]

Love this tour. Have been to Gran haven. Love the area. Beautiful part of the state

[@msv3402]

What a gorgeous garden with fantastic blooms.❤❤❤❤

[@maureengee364]

Fantastic garden love it. Looks so luscious. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@myinsulingardenbyniniday4398]

OMG! I love your Hydrangea!! Amazing how you take good care of them 😍🥰

[@jillianleblanc9370]

Thank you for sharing all those amazing blooming plants all look beautiful flowers lovely garden tour

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Great symetry of the garden! Everything looks beautiful!

[@sharonpoe675]

Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful garden!

[@amyjones2490]

Oh my how pretty. My Michigan garden is very dry and crispy. I need to up my game.

[@genevieveradford3165]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

[@jillr759]

I’ve enjoyed this so much!!!! Laying here with a head injury while our front and back in a full blown landscaping redo! You’ve given me fabulous ideas. Wish you were here in California, I am full of shade and see my opportunities are better than I anticipated with a little research. Thank you, your energy is fabulous for videos.

[@pamelacallaway3922]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing this garden with us!

[@christophertaylor9826]

Beautiful garden tour enjoyed it emensley what an inspiration.

[@karenmolta1740]

Fabulous tour!

[@xandria-themelanatedphoeni2476]

Gorgeous gardens! I’ll definitely be on the lookout for some of these plants! Thank you guys for taking the time to show us! 💜

[@shirleyc7175]

Thanks for the tour of the beautiful gardens. 👍

[@artworld9799]

Amazing gardening

[@sunnyday7869]

What's the name of that shrub/tree at 11:32 on the right? Beautiful! Perfect Triangular Shape!😍

[@barbarahiesel1015]

What I would give to have a garden like that! Wow! Gorgeous ❤

[@lizw9126]

Those evergreens at 22:00 look very much like our Incense cedars - ours grow almost as fast as the Western Red Cedars (we are near the Canadian border in WA) but have a more full habit. Great tour - what an incredible garden!

[@judycarter587]

Wonderful garden tour❤️

[@mavisjones4750]

Such a beautiful garden! Thank you for showing it to us.

[@Juanandradethegardener]

Such a beautiful garden! Love the color, youre very knowledgeable

[@oceanbelow]

I am always so jealous of the primes and firelights. I have 8 and they NEVER make it to this point here in Alabama.😢 By the end of July to mid August they are scorched and dead, I even have the pugsters, they just couldn’t survive the heat. This was beautiful to see.

[@AA-cp8ry]

I believe those large gorgeous evergreens are CEDAR trees!

[@debrawhobrey1625]

Thank you, beautiful. Love this viedo.

[@Cmallon81]

Great tour. I loved being able to see some mature specimens of things I have recently planted in my garden, including the soft serve false cypresses and tangelo barberry. It can be really hard to picture a mature plant from the tag alone and often there are not a lot a pictures online.

[@elainepietrzak8093]

I am a huge fan of your videos bu thanks for doing a garden tour in my growing zone. I loved it💝

[@PEONIAOBSESSION]

Love It 🍂🥰🤗🍁

[@jenniferwolford4646]

My little lime has a tuft on some of its blooms too.

[@GardenHappy]

New Subscriber here… the hydrangeas won my heart! 🧡❤️💜💙💚

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Welcome!!

[@katherinecornette5315]

It’s hard to compare hydrangeas with gardens in Michigan. They just thrive there. My limelight, which I’m limbing up to be a small tree, actually has some color this year. Enjoy your time there! It looks like Ana amazing place!

[@logansimpson5980]

Great video from your favorite. Hope y’all had a good trip to Michigan

[@teresalegacy7099]

Wow! This was a beautiful and inspirational video! I especially enjoyed the designing lesson which was extremely interesting and gave me great ideas for my own gardens that I have recently created. I have been really having a difficult time trying to figure out how to continue adding on and these were some amazing ideas. Thank You!!

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

You are so welcome!

[@faithbentley9569]

Black squirrels are specific to southwest MI. I understand that one of the Kellogg brothers brought them here from abroad years ago. Most squirrels in Battle Creek are black.

[@mildredkrisik8888]

Interesting. I had never seen a black squirrel either.

[@stephenparis5113]

Dr Seuss Tree is Chamaecyparis nootkatensis.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Thanks!

[@maureenmckenna5220]

My blooms will never see pink in any shade whatsoever. The heat in Virginia forestalls any chance of pink making an entrance. What a shame. These are gorgeous.

[@VictorNewman201]

The Hydrangeas are so beautiful, but I was wondering if I could include them in my bee and butterfly garden? Some info online says that only some Hydrangeas will feed pollinators, but Im not sure which ones to plant. I would like to plant Panicles because i have sunny spots.

[@megrosa78]

Gorgeous! Stunning! Amazing. Could get lost in those gardens for days! Wow. What are the hydrangeas you’re standing in the middle of in the intro shot for this video?

[@sueprovostwilliams3824]

I’ve had 3 primes in my garden for two years now and still no blooms. My guess is there’s not enough sun??

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Sounds like it. Fall is a great time to move hydrangeas.

[@PershijsmachnijKherson]

Hello, great job! Thanks for sharing this video! Always believe in yourself and keep doing what you love, good luck 🌸🌸🌸

[@rebeccawoods4488]

What a fantastic and inspiring video! I noticed that some of the gardens are mounded up. Any particular reason? They look so beautiful! Did they achieve that just by adding more soil? I love the edging, too. Any recommendations on how to achieve such beautiful and distinct borders?

[@fabioleonhardt]

♥️♥️♥️👍lindos.

[@jodip719]

Hydrangeas are my absolute favorite! Do you know if those beds are on irrigation?

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Yes, they are 😊