Is this a Bay tree and how to remove and replant?

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  March 2021 edited March 2021

  It looks very much like bay - rip a leaf and have a sniff.
  
  I'm say there's very little chance of diggin it out. It's been there too long and you'll not be able to get sufficient roots out.
  
  Ps - if you're removing the paving around it then there's a chance you could move it. But you'd need to cut a lot of the top growth off or the roots will not be able to support all that top growth

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
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• daley7 Posts: 2

  March 2021

  Thank you Pete. And bugger, seems such a shame to remove and do nothing with it. 

  I’ll see what I can do.
  thanks again 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2021

  See if there are any suckers coming from the base ... I've successfully rooted some of those in the past. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  March 2021

  It looks great there. No harm in trying it elsewhere if it's got to go anyway.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• UpNorth Posts: 376

  March 2021

  Get those paving stones out first, will enable you to take more root.    It's very Mediterranean so shouldn't be too much transpiration so I reckon a fair chance of keeping it.   Get it into huge pot with moderately fertile well drained soil....keep semi shaded a while until you're happy it's going to survive. Good luck.

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