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Relocating my plants
Connie fr.
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Unfortunately I will have to move house by the end of the year and have quite a big job to move many of my plants. They will have to be potted up as they will not be planted immediately but I have done this several times before but there are so many more now ! I have a fair sized mixed border which was made last year but hopefully they will be reasonably easy to re-pot. My main problem is a few more mature plants which grow over arches and I have already trimmed a climbing rose back to the height of the arch. I also have a couple of honeysuckles and a rampant passion flower. If I trim them how will I support them in the meantime.
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When I moved house I only took plants that were unusual or sentimental.Do you really need to take established plants? I would see a new garden as a chance to try something new!
make sure you tell the prospective buyers what you're planning to take before exchange of contract.
I brought quite a lot of plants when we moved here over 30 years ago as there was no garden here at all and I knew there would be no money to spare for plants for a while. I left a good garden behind though, as I split clumps and potted up half, along with very young plants and any special treasures. We moved in March, which was a good time from the plants' point of view. I included some mysterious bird-donated seedlings, that turned out to be an amelanchier and a small Japanese crabapple that work much better here than they would have in a smaller garden. But I didn't try to move things like my shrub roses, even though I loved them and I would certainly have lost them anyway as conditions here are very different from the old garden and it took me a good while to find the things that work best.
Honeysuckles and passion flowers are rapid growers and cheap to buy as small plants that will establish much faster than shocked transplanted oldies. The same with roses. You would have to cut back hard anyway, so why not start with a vigorous youngster? You chose your border with this house in mind: is it going to work as well, or look as good in the new place?
Well everyone seems unanimous with their comments. The house we are in is rented, owners are moving back in but they are not gardeners. I had to leave a beautiful garden seven years ago just taking a selection in pots which survived well until they were re-planted. It is just knowing the effort and cost of the new border and the fact that it will not be cherished as I would that breaks my heart to leave it. We thought we were here very long term or would never have gone to all this trouble. I will have to give this a lot of thought but thank you all for your comments.
good luck with the move Connie fr.
I knew someon who took the kitchen and all the inner doors because they were expensive and he put them in.
When we moved into a house years ago, there was a bottle of wine and two glasses on the kitchen work top. (And all the plants in the garden
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If they're not going to be loved then you have nothing to lose in trying to pot them up and take them with you. Cut the climbers back to a manageable height for whatever transport you will use and stick some canes in the pots to support what's left.
Use good compost to pot them and then add plenty of blood, fish and bone or pelleted chicken manure to encourage new growth when you replant them.
Good luck.
a friend of mine was moving from a rented house and her landlord told her she could take what she'd planted.
As her new garden was tiny , she offered me some. I took lots of herbaceous stuff and a lovely Daphne. I know the books say don't move them, but as obelixx so rightly says " nothing to lose"
It wasn't massive I have to say, but I got as big a root ball as I reckoned would fool it into not realising it'd been moved.
It's coming on a treat in year 2 and is showing lots of flower buds.