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Moving house with many many potted plants, bushes etc
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has anyone moved house with lots of potted plants and bushes etc? If so, how did you solve the logistics? My pots take up 12 square feet, without pots standing on pots and hanging baskets. I am told you can hire a 16' trailer but it will be a big job to move all of them in 1 day and to lift some of the m into a trailer. I have started to empty some of the bigger ones and repot the contents in smaller ones, thereby increasing the number of pots.
i am hoping to be able to make a good start on planting up a new garden by taking a huge variety of plants with me, mostly grown from seed.
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If you're employing a removal firm, they'll move the pots for you too .
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We brought over 150 pots with us here. Our removal team were brilliant .
We were only moving a short distance so hired a van fo a day and moved all garden pots and garage stuff ourselves. It helps if you haven't far to go and if you have a day or two between taking possession and actually moving. We also moved the fish tank and did the cleaning so the house was ready. Every box labelled with which room, easy to unpack - we held a party a couple of days after moving in and everyone was amazed at how organised things were! I took chunks of splittable perennials and just about everything pottable was potted. Some unidentified seedlings I brought with me were useful - one turned out to be my much loved amelanchier, another a japanese crab apple. Thanks birds!
We always did our moves (including two international 1000 km + moves) by ourselves, so I feel for you in your labours! When I moved from Italy to Germany I brought all of my pot plants with me... the really big ones I took out of the pots, shook out some soil, packed the damp rootballs in rubbish bin liners and packed them in the van whenever there was space among the boxes and furniture. (That was February, so many plants were dormant. In summer I would also wrap newspaper around the leafy tops so I could "squeeze" them in narrow bags carefully to avoid to many broken twigs etc.)
The smaller ones including a ridiculous amount of uber-spiny agaves and cacti I loaded inside my Nissan Micra, in boxes or alone tucked into corners. I am good at this sort of "fractal loading", and the car was HEAVY. Could not overtake trucks uphill in crossing the Alps! A rather amused policeman at the frontier asked if I was carrying anything funky among all those cacti, but he did not venture to unpack them.
Thank you everyone for your comments. This was the first day I ventured into the GARDNERS world forum and am amazed at just how helpful you all are. I will definitely continue using it. Thanks once again for all your tips.
i especially appreciate the tips about packing plants in bags amongst the furniture etc.
A good removal company is your friend!
Expensive sort of friend, though. Moving house across contries would have cost us at least 10,000 € a pop at the time.