How I Keep My Late Summer Garden Happy | Gardening with Creekside

[@katiewoodford9107]

The natural sounds while you were watering/fertilizing were so beautiful to hear, including your sweet girl’s panting 💕.

[@nicholletobin]

Jenny, I'm currently watching this while snow falls outside in Newfoundland, Canada. You're keeping me going while waiting for warmer, sunnier days 😊

[@joshjeg5146]

Right, so every day is a school day. I have grown bleeding hearts for years but never thought to put in something which comes up and performs late in the season to fill the gap. I have chasmanthium latifolium next to them and those look incredible now and are one of the only grasses I know which will do well in shade. I am now going to put some more in amongst the dicentras. Thank you Jenny for the tip. I love how we all learn from this community, no matter how long we have been gardening! All the best from the UK.

[@judymckerrow6720]

I watered a chipmunk once. He was hiding in one of my containers and he scared me as much as I scared him. I guess he didn’t like the cold water that was coming out of the hose, it was my last container to water so by that time the water was probably extremely cold. Anyway he took off like a bullet, he scared me because I certainly wasn’t expecting something to come flying out of the container.😂🌺💚🙃

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Oh my gosh! That is hilarious and sounds like something that would happen to me. I would have jumped out of my skin at the surprise 🤣

[@jgwood10]

The same thing happened to me when I was cutting the stalks from the hostas. I moved some leaves and something moved! I jumped away real quick but then a turtle came out from under the leaves. 😂

[@oneblockwonderwoman6833]

Too funny. I watered one of our barn cats that had decided that napping in the shade of a potted rosebush was a good idea. Needless to say, she was not happy and didn't speak to me for a week. 😆

[@judymckerrow6720]

@@oneblockwonderwoman6833 😆🌺💚🙃

[@Edu_Kate]

I'm always being startled by a toad. You know, they like to burrow in the soil. Last week, in pouring rain, I removed cardboard I'd placed to kind of get a sense where to dig paths in my new garden. I'm pretty sure a vole had taken shelter under that cardboard. I tried to get it to move from under foot and it appeared to be blind. I think that's a vole. 😊

[@jaleinegreen7411]

Jenny,, you absolutely cracked me up with “my garden is growing a German shepherd! “ much love from 9A 😊🌸🍃🌺🍃

[@judymckerrow6720]

If I have a massive area to weed I like to first beat it with a stick, broom or whatever I have at hand. I figure if there’s any critters hiding in the weeds it will scare them away so they don’t scare me away.😂🌺💚🙃

[@thehardygardener3064]

Thanks for the Texas shout out! It's hot and my plants are crispy! DFW, Texas

[@mariay.279]

Yup the girls are singing. Nice sound.

[@mariay.279]

Loving those orange yellow begonias.

[@kaylac3367]

Your garden is looking very beautiful! I so appreciate that you do these maintenance videos. It's all part of gardening and we need to know how this part is done. Plus it's like a little garden tour and we get to see how your garden is doing! It was fun to hear the chickens! Hydrangea Hill and the chicken coup area is gorgeous in the background!

[@loribethartist6353]

I am surprised how many people don’t like hosta blooms as well! I love them and you are right about the hummingbirds ❤❤❤

[@sharoncoon5439]

Love the flowers on my hostas!!

[@maxhunter7036]

Thanks for the shout out and encouragement to us Texas gardens Jenny. My gardening motivation has dramatically declined after much work I put in the spring. Love seeing your gardens since mine looks awful.

[@nancypatterson374]

I live in South Carolina and we are all praying for Texas to get relief from the heat and drought. Right now we all are under the heat dome in the south, but we did have a good summer and we know you didn’t.God Bless 🙏❤️

[@NewDimension7]

Yuuuhu good Morning Beautiful garden showing Fresh and awesome Happy Gardening

[@lorettatremmel6376]

Good morning Jenny! Central Pa zone 6b. I'm almost finished cleaning up my hosta stems and dried up bleeding hearts. I have 3 four year old Sun Kings because of you. In full shade with very little morning sun, not as big as yours but still are beautiful in their corner. I love hearing your chickens..reminds me of hearing my Grama's chickens when I was a kid. I have a crazy go with the flow life and gardening is my sanity saver. I enjoy your humorous way of looking at real life. Thanks for all you do!

[@marilynbaldwin2934]

Your gardens always look beautiful! It makes you feel great when you get them cleaned up!

[@mariay.279]

GM Jenny n Gardeners.

[@withwyatt_2181]

Jenny, thank you for the blessing you shouted out to Texas. Even though everything is looking bad there are a few bright spots in my garden! (PW Salvia!!) So for that I’m thankful! Topping out at 107 plus the humidity this week 😢! Just trying to keep things alive.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Hang in there!!!! Praying for rain and cooler temps for y’all 💗

[@carlyspencer441]

👋👋Fellow Texan here. It's been a tough one for sure. I'm growing a mexican sunflower for the first time and it's handling this heat like a champ. And my cannas are loving life! Definitely have to enjoy the plants who are thriving in this weather.

[@connieragle5612]

The chickens are happy 🥚

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

They are!

[@vickieharrell6853]

When I first heard your chickens I thought it was one of my cats making a noise.

[@suzettebergeron484]

Wish my garden would grow a German Shepard as beautiful as miss brenna❤

[@marialamm5722]

Love your hat!😊

[@donnafernandez4058]

I’m so glad that you’ve been giving us such good information about camellias and bleeding hearts (and gardenias too in previous videos). These are plants that I have always struggled with. Camellias drop buds; bleeding hearts look straggly, gardenias just burn up … now I know why and what to do!! Thanks to you Jenny I feel much more confident giving some of these plants another try in my garden 🦋

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Yay❣️

[@richvachalek8903]

Shockingly the Bleeding Hearts faded away before the end of the season! 🙄😜

[@christycoalson36]

Good morning Mrs Jenny and friends ☀️😊

[@deannahaworth7666]

I’m glad you show garden maintenance , anytime I’ve given a consult or done a landscape project I find that the client wants curb appeal and beautiful landscape but does not realize or want the maintenance

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

So true! No garden is maintenance free.

[@dianequist835]

I'm one of those people who prefer looking at hostas "while" they bloom. I love how they soften the look with their wispy looking stems and blooms.

[@anitahadley2871]

I planted a Sun King a couple of months ago and it has not grown at all. It gets morning sun like yours. I’m hoping it will come back next year and take off. Now, my bleeding heart was cut back awhile ago and I just noticed it’s pushing new growth. I don’t know how, it’s like a million degrees outside!

[@qamarjahan8061]

We want to plant badam or almonds trees 3 to 5 trees on left side of home location because if we park car or bike so we should park below the trees and rain also come time to time if we fruits plant trees between 5 feet

[@jimmiecheek4392]

Yes it’s brutal in Texas.

[@bonniejackson7476]

Good afternoon. Thanks for giving our gardens permission to limp along through August! As you say it August in North Carolina! Thanks as always for your guidance.

[@christileewall]

Yes, I'm in Texas 10 miles southwest of Dallas/Ft. Worth. We are wondering if we're all going to fall in one of the hundreds of cracks that have formed all over our acreage from lack of rain. We are praying for rain but it's not happening for now! Your shade garden looks lovely Friend!

[@mariay.279]

Thx so much.

[@Edu_Kate]

I planted a 'Curly Fries' hosta earlier this season and was surprised by the prettiest long trumpet purple flowers, slightly streaked. It sent out another stalk. I'll have to get nose to nose with it to really examine it. I did not expect that its first season. 😊 Yes. It feels so good after cleaning up a bed. It's taking me some time, but I see progress where I'd severely ignored my favorite hydrangea bed. Nightshade had overrun the space to the point of being shrub size, much like your aralea. Yikes! Spurge spread a carpet over my gravel and some other groundcover I haven't identified. At first, I wondered if it was dodder. Nope. But it's everywhere. I will be applying Preen on bulk.

[@ariemaica988]

Nice garden, Jenny 😍 love to see your creek blooms

[@angie_texas7986]

Looks beautiful, this Texas heat is brutal plants are barely hanging on.

[@juliafiore120]

Good day, Jenny 22:38 I love this wall mounted container so much! It’s gorgeous 😍

[@kkcarricaburu6042]

Thanks for your advice Jenny. Nice to see you this morning.🪴😎

[@ginopiccinini5579]

Jenny -I want to thank you for saving my butterfly bushes. My butterfly bushes were looking rough, so my first thought is the plant is not getting enough water. So I watered both bushes every day, but It didn't help, Then I saw your video last week where you said not to water the butterfly bushes unless the leaves curl up. So I started watering once a week, and they are looking so much better. So thanks again! Anita (Michigan zone 5)

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Wonderful! So glad my advice was helpful 🙌🏻

[@LetsGardenYall]

You’re making me miss NC 😢. Thank you for keeping me company in my travels ❤

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Safe travels friend. Can’t wait til you’re back in the Tarheel State ❣️

[@annacole5023]

Greetings from TN! I love your garden! Is it OK to just trim off the burned portion of the hosta leaves?

[@Edu_Kate]

Jenny, does Jacobs Ladder do the same die back as bleeding heart? My 'Heaven Scent' looks awful. It could be the nearby maple roots competition, but I mounded the soil so it would have its own source and, of course, plenty of Land & Sea compost to help my sandy soil. It's in mostly shade and mulched.

[@ramonajolley1966]

I just bought two sad Hostas from Lowes. I think that I can save them. Crazy how my garden has changed. I have shade in the front. The Hosta's will love it. You chickens sounds so wonderful!! Take care my Zone 7b friend.

[@GlendasTexasGarden]

I love that trellis in your shade garden there, where can I buy something like that?

[@lindamiller394]

Thanks for letting us watch how you take care of your garden. I look forward to your videos . Take care.

[@terresiagregg9326]

Good morning Jenny your garden will look beautiful wbenI it's cut back

[@marblehead3398]

Love that southern, spicy, testy attitude.

[@rosecarter7618]

Love you guys! I hope you can help me. First off I'm beyond giddy about the fact that Creekside will begin shipping this fall. I'm in zone 7b southern Oklahoma and like you have to deal with heat, humidity and hard, red clay soil. I have tried and tried to grow Weigela and Astillbe and they just don't thrive. They won't die, mind you, but they stay the size I planted them for years till I finally dig them up. I always amend my soil with gypsum, chopped pine bark and straw and work it in till the soil is very workable and drains well. I use Biotone at planting and mulch with a thick layer of arborist mulch with drip irrigation. What else can I do to make my soil better where it will grow better plants in this hard clay. I do have areas of a more sandy loam soil that will grow anything and I'm trying to build more beds where there is more clay but I'm still missing something. My pH tends to be alkaline at 7.8 and I've added soil acidifier last year and brought it down to 6.5. Please help if you can since you are more familiar with my kind of growing conditions.

[@softballtigers587]

Good morning 🐅

[@karenbarnes5517]

Hi 👋 Jenny

[@paulajames6149]

I bought 2 aralias this summer. Love them!!!

[@NursemomB853]

It’s 7am here and it’s already 78 degrees..and very humid! All week we are to be over 100 and high humidity. Can’t wait for fall weather!

[@suemenges291]

North Carolina is not the only state suffering hot hummid weather in the summer... up here in Missouri we are too! I think this is the worst this year for all the country!!

[@cindyczornohus1834]

Hi Jenny, oh my word, what have I done to my Brunnera??!!! It has completely died back to the ground. It receives morning sun only and gets regular watering. Everyone I follow has lovely Brunnera plants all season. Any insight would be so helpful. Thanks for your videos! I love them so much!

[@bethgaither1214]

I wish i could have your attitude about snakes. I found a black snake by my deck last week. He was re-homed to a local farm. Your garden looks great! 😊

[@danatempleton4213]

I used that same slug and snail bait this year! It Works! This is the 1st year that my Hostas haven't been ate up! Definitely recommend!

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Glad to hear it!

[@katrinaklapproth8788]

Fab video Jenny, can I ask where do you get your caps. I love the long lip on them I can’t find them anywhere over here in the UK.

[@MyBackyardScience]

This summer, I've been feeding our spent hosta flower stems to our bunnies 🐰 all summer, so they were an easy cleanup this year! I'll be cutting back our bleeding hearts today as well! At this point of the summer they just look like a bad weed! 😀

[@violetamayer6298]

👌👌👌👏👏👏👏😊 looks great! I just did some cleaning up and feel tired but happy. South Florida weather won't stop me 😧😁

[@loribethartist6353]

Do you have deer or rabbit problems? I’m in East Tennessee and they took out all my seedlings a few times! I have to work on a fence for next year!

[@giniemitchell4913]

I heard her busy girl.

[@lindathompson8100]

Good morning Jenny, i just love the gate behind your white by the gate camelia. Can you tell me where it came from again.

[@juliedorey5254]

Question? Will you be shipping Land and Sea? 😊

[@saundrawilliams1601]

Yes, I can hear that! 🎶 Sounds like my girls! So proud of their hard work 🥚 Zoe Grace, Rosy Posy, Sadie Lou & Butterscotch Well, yes, because when you are from the south “everybody” has a middle name!

[@jolindarather5180]

I wish PW would make a Larger Packaging of water soluble. Great Product.

[@dmbalsam]

I am in Ireland and Scotland until the end of September. I have to rely on someone to water my plants, especially the ones on our covered porches. Before I left I trimmed back my porch plants and pulled all the ones that died on our previous trip. Everything started out good.

[@patriciaflores2776]

👍👋👋beautiful windowbox's plants &the shade bed!!🌳thanks jenny from s.a.texas

[@kathy8832]

Very informative. Between Laura @ Garden Answer and your videos I always learn something new. I so enjoy these videos. Thank you for all you give us.

[@pamelawillis6036]

Why would my Jack of Diamonds" turn black and die off....it was gorgeous this spring.

[@rijvanansari7490]

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[@kathyley5661]

I have seen vedios like this many times. And i practice what you were telling us. But for some reason, this was the very best i have ever seen! You demonstrated it and explained it so well! 😊

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Wow, thank you❣️ Glad it was helpful!

[@gayur6888]

Do you have a hardie board siding? How did you hang your window planter?

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Beautiful job Jenny 🥰🥰🥰

[@eileenchang2173]

Hi Jenny, isn’t it easier to use a special sprayer/mixer attached to the hose for the application of the plant fertilizer? One empties one bag and the powder will dissolve as the water is being pushed out? I can’t get the products you have in 🇨🇦 but I think it is same principle with another product I use . It also comes in two sachets .🌸❤️🇨🇦

[@shirleyc7175]

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[@rosemountfarms2897]

We live in a cooler climate so my Hosta and Bleeding Heart have lasted so long this season Canada I love Hosta blooms too Beautiful space

[@SharonYount138]

any eggs........

[@doreen9838]

I just seen Brenna watching over you. So nice having a companion along with you

[@Khushboo-e-Hassan12]

""Your videos are not only beautiful in terms of content but also in how you edit them ! keep sharing the awesome videos."🌹🌹🌹""

[@lindaweaver8131]

Where did you get that lovely hanging basket on the wall next to you? It is so pretty with floral filling.

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Goodmorning thank you for all the tips and ideas.

[@crystalbailey6553]

❤ #southerngardeners #teamjenny ❤

[@avon1950]

Love your gardens and your business environment! Question - have you thought about installing a greenhouse like a Hartley close to your home for a beautiful view? Loving your improvements! Thanks!

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Nope! We have enough greenhouses to maintain 😉

[@robinbirdd3]

I don't remember hearing what you Had in your window boxes with your caladiums,were they by chance begonias? They are beautiful, both the caladium as well as the pretty yellow flowers in with the caladiums. I live in North Texas and enjoy watching you especially shade gardens as well as the heat loving plants. You do such a Beautiful job on all your gardens. 😊❤😊 Thank you for inspiring us all.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Yes they are Double Delight Primrose begonias

[@juliefinley5974]

Question for you: Do you dig your caladiums in the Fall to replant in the Spring? Id love to see a video on this topic. I’ve never done it, but would like to try.

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

No, I treat them as annuals

[@barbaradillard1424]

Have I missed updates on the dalhila ? I never see them. How are they doing in the heat and humidity? Any diseases or bugs?

[@Jdadkins6198]

I kinda gave up this past couple weeks trying to keep things beautiful. Here in Lawrence, KS our temps have been in triple digit heat usually 118 -124 F daily with 80% dew point and 70% humidity extreme heat index warnings to stay inside. Can’t even see out my windows cuz night temps usually stay around 80-90, the air is so thick, lol. Tried to get out this morning just to water the poor plants cuz we’re in a terrible drought, no rain in weeks, just drenched in sweat, about 5 minutes in. It’s hard to even breathe through humidity and heat this high. 🫤🥵Idk I would totally take North Carolina summers over our extreme heat and extreme humidity/dew points here in central Midwest. Pretty much have to stay inside cuz of dangerous heat stroke warnings. Can’t believe I’m getting cabin fever in summer. Might need to pack up the doggies and head to Colorado or Michigan to get a break from the heat. Thanks for a fun clean up video, hopefully it will cool down next week so many of us dealing with this high heat can get out and enjoy.

[@rijvanansari7490]

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[@KristiB73]

I'm amazed I still have bleeding hearts foliage. It normally doesn't stay up during this heat. Its been a strange growing year.

[@AttnDefDis_]

I was considering bleeding hearts next year, but seeing the way they peter out, I'll pass. Thanks for saving me the trouble!

[@GardeningwithCreekside]

Oh but they are so worth it in early spring!!!! For everything there is a season 😊

[@veronicabyrd3699]

Your chickens are screaming so loud. I think she has laid a dozen of eggs.😀🥳

[@dorindajenkins7825]

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[@PeggyMills]

Good morning, Jenny. My columbine looks like your bleeding heart. I’m hoping it will come back next spring too.

[@Flower_hoarder]

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[@kp-gbuniqueinterest]

Are Caladiums an annual in your zone7? Im zone 5b and have a basement Greenhouse were I keep my Citrus Trees which survived this past winter. Will I be able to Put Caladiums or even Elephant ears, or other annuals there? The humanity stays at 45-55% and temp 60(Night)- 72(Day). Maybe a future video on which ones you can put in house/indoor greenhouse and how to prep.