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Tried to move Viburnum Tinus

MachTwoMachTwo Posts: 2
edited April 2020 in Problem solving
About six weeks ago I attempted to move a small Viburnum Tinus - unfortunately it wasn't easy to remove the root ball completely. I put the plant into a deep hole with compost and have watered each day - but it doesn't appear to be putting down any new roots. 

I'm watering it morning and evening - but it appears to just be drying up. It's not far from another Viburnum Tinus which is very healthy, so I know the soil can support them.

Is there anything I can do to help it? I wondered if the old leaf growth is perhaps stressing the plant now that it can't support them. Perhaps I need to prune these leafy branches out so that it can generate new ones? 

Don't want to give up on it just yet...


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  • kpsnutskpsnuts Posts: 1
    Hi, did you resolve this? I've had the exact same issue.

    Cheers

    Kal
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The likely problem above was due to too many roots being broken during the move and the remaining roots were unable to supply the leaves with enough water, so they died.
    When all the leaves die, the plant is unable to absorb energy from the sun so there's a chance it may not recover.
    However given some time, the roots may regrow and new shoots may then appear on the lower part of the shrub, but there's a good chance a lot of the upper branches will have died back by then, but the plant may recover over time.

    If a lot of the leaves and branches were removed before moving the shrub, the roots don't have to work so hard, so there's a better chance of survival.
    And sometimes a shrub is just too established to be moved.

    There's an article on the Beechgrove site somewhere that gives the procedure for moving an established shrub. But it's a long process



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  • MachTwoMachTwo Posts: 2
    It didn’t recover. As the post above suggests - there was too much root damage. When I dug it up three months later there was no sign of any new root growth. So I think it had died. 

    I replaced it with a Viburnum Nudum which is now thriving. 
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