Tammy SonsFounder/CEO, TN Nursery · CEO TN Nursery

Unboxing plants from TN Nursery! #gardening #Plants #TNNursery #UnboxingVideo

9 Mar 2026 · 3 min

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In this video, Tammy Sons thanks Tennessee Nursery for sending five different plant varieties and walks through how she planted each in her front garden. She explains the specific location choices based on light exposure, drainage, and watering needs: ajuga as a shade‑loving ground cover in a fully shaded, well‑drained spot; dwarf irises paired with ajuga in the same shade area; Indian pink placed in a partial‑shade zone near the house; and two milkweed plants positioned on a sunny, slightly elevated hill near her irrigation system to support monarch butterflies. Tammy notes that some plants already have buds and expresses hope they will thrive. She also mentions her plan to harvest and distribute seeds to the community to promote pollinator habitats. The tone is conversational and enthusiastic, with a focus on practical gardening decisions and community outreach.

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Thank you so much, Tennessee Nursery. I love this so much. So Tennessee Nursery actually sent me plants. It's about to rain, so I went ahead and started planting them. So all of this video, I'm just going to clip over top of it. They sent me 5 different plants, all of them with multiple of those plants in it, and I'm going to show you where I put them in my front garden and why I chose those places. We're going to start with my favorite, which I believe is pronounced ajuga. It is a shade lover. It's ground cover. It'll take off all on its own, but it's also really well contained. So if I have a raised garden bed or somewhere where I just want it to be pretty flowers, this is the thing for that. I chose the left side of my front porch because it is a full shade area, but it also gets plenty of drainage because that is where most of our rain drainage is. This is what it looks like. It is So pretty. And all of this information I actually got from the Tennessee Nursery website, minus this picture, because look at this. With the ajuga, I put my dwarf irises over there. There were 6 in there. 6. And I mean, I'm not sure that everything's going to actually sprout, but a lot of them actually already had the buds. I'm very hopeful. I planted those with the ajuga because they also need full sun— no, they also need full shade. Next, I went with the Indian pink. I put them on the right side of my front porch because that is a partial shade area. In the morning it's all shade, in the evening it gets direct sun. So it says it likes partial sun. Hopefully it likes where I put it. I did put it a little bit closer to the house so that way, just in case it doesn't like too much sun. This is what they look like. It's very pretty. Very excited to see that one. And the next two plants were both milkweed. Well, last year I actually started a milkweed area where I had a ton of monarch butterflies. So I put those in an area that gets full sun and is on a little bit of a hill. So there's a fair amount of drainage, but in an area that's close to my watering system, just in case they get too dry. And then hopefully when they sprout and seed, I can start giving out seeds for all of these to give out to the community so we can have more pollinator plants in the area and help the area thrive. Thank you so much, Dennisina.