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Moving House : Moving Plants

Yorkshire GirlYorkshire Girl Posts: 51
in Problem solving
I'm moving house in the next couple of weeks. There are so many plants that I would like to take but the garden that I am going to needs a complete rework and redesign and therefore cannot be planted straight away. It might even be well into next year when i get round to looking at remodelling the garden. What's the best solution?
Thank you 

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hello there Yorkshire Girl. The only thing I can suggest is lots of pots to either take the whole plant or smaller pots with lots of cuttings/offshoots in them.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    This is a difficult situation: remember you should get your buyer's consent before you remove any plants that are in the ground. My daughter was dismayed when her buyers concreted over her lovely crinum in the front garden!
  • Yorkshire GirlYorkshire Girl Posts: 51
    Thank you...yes, I have stated that some of the plants will be coming with us. Looks like I'm pot shopping!
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    It doesn't have to be expensive pots. Buckets and them large flexible things with handles (sorry I can't remember what they're called, )  will do. .....With suitable drainage holes made in the bottom.
    West Yorkshire
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Thanks @philippasmith2 , brain not awake this morning.
    West Yorkshire
  • Yorkshire GirlYorkshire Girl Posts: 51
    Good ideas thank you
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    We took a considerable amount of plants from our previous garden (with permission), and didn't find a new house for 3 months.  It was considerably longer before we finally got around to planting everything out (up to 12 months in a few cases).  As long as you are prepared to water and feed the plants in pots, there shouldn't be any problem.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    walleraubree4WvsN-0AT said:
    I have recently moved to New Jersey with the help of Austin Movers, a truly great company. Can't wait to have a new garden. 
    Well that's lovely for you. DO they move people in the UK too? I've got a fiver - will that do?
    S*d off   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
    edited January 2023
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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited January 2023
    I moved a number of quite large rhodendrons, azaleas and evergreen azaleas in June 1976.  I had wrapped the roots in plastic and had to leave them like that until spring 1977.  I kept them pushed up tight in a shady place and watered them well.  I filled in the gaps with Sedgemoor peat, of which I had plenty.  When the hose ban came, I empty a "solid" mud small pond onto them, and then watering can.

    Of course rhodies have fine roots and are easy to move.  Only one rose survived this treatment.  Rosamundi.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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