The sap will be rising now so best left until October November.
Anything can be moved as we see at Chelsea, fully grown trees are often on show though cranes are needed.
Your Acer can be moved and the advice is always the same.
As big a root ball as you can get or handle, wrap it in plastic then move it to a prepared hole. Make sure it is well set in and water very well to settle the soil around the root. It will need staking for a year to let it bite into the ground. A bucket of water every day for a week and five minutes on the prayer mat should see it OK.
I thought when moving trees, circa 1 year before you should dig a circle around the tree, severing any roots to encourage it to grow more small fibrous roots - then it'll cope better with the later transplanting. Is this so?
Correct, it was the Rhododendron thread with a time limit.
I do not see the point of digging round the root ball and loosening it up for the wind to bowl it over, may as well disturb it once then leave it to settle down again.
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The sap will be rising now so best left until October November.
Anything can be moved as we see at Chelsea, fully grown trees are often on show though cranes are needed.
Your Acer can be moved and the advice is always the same.
As big a root ball as you can get or handle, wrap it in plastic then move it to a prepared hole. Make sure it is well set in and water very well to settle the soil around the root. It will need staking for a year to let it bite into the ground. A bucket of water every day for a week and five minutes on the prayer mat should see it OK.
Good luck Frank.
I thought when moving trees, circa 1 year before you should dig a circle around the tree, severing any roots to encourage it to grow more small fibrous roots - then it'll cope better with the later transplanting. Is this so?
Supernoodle, that is what I have been told too
thanks very much i will say my prayers now .
Fleurisa, Supernoodle, Correct if you have a year or so to plan it, J.J. does not have the time as it seems his new drive is going in.
Needs must and having had to move stuff from garden to garden in rapid house moves, (sold much faster than we thought) I know it works.
Frank.
Palaisglide, were you mixing up threads? No mention of driveway and time dependency on this one.
Correct, it was the Rhododendron thread with a time limit.
I do not see the point of digging round the root ball and loosening it up for the wind to bowl it over, may as well disturb it once then leave it to settle down again.
Frank.