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Moving a Rhododedron
Ann Macdonald
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Hi all I have a medium sized Bush that is in the wrong place so is looking leggy and in need of a new home, can I move it now. Unsuccessfully flowers each year so deserves a better home.
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they were fine. as long as you dig up a good rootball and replant straight away
it should enjoy its new spot in your garden,Also I did not do any extra composting
in the new location.
Remember that Rhodes. have shallow roots, so don't plant deeply.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
That's interesting, wonder if anyone want s the one in my garden i don't want! it's around 2.5metres tall, guess 10-12ish years old, could this be moved?would it be best to prune 1st?
Plenty of ericacious compost around the rootball. We had one some years ago, for years it never flowered OH was going to take it out, then it flowered very small uninteresting white flowers, but by does it smell lovelly!
'Shallow rooted' doesn't mean that a plant only has shallow roots - it means that the plant has roots which need to be near the surface and therefore it should not be planted too deeply - it may also have roots which go deeper into the soil.
A mature Rhododendron ponticum can be up to 8m tall and of course has deep roots as well as the shallower ones.
However, I don't think the question was about Rhod. ponticum, but one of the smaller 'garden types'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They're fairly easy to move - the usual advice applies regarding a prepared planting hole and a decent rootball, as already said.
If it's a big one, rosemummy I'd prune it first and move it later in the year. Do it all in stages. You'll lose flowers etc but if it needs to be moved then you might as well try. Don't let it go short of water throughout the process.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Most experts say do not prune them, unless you need to remove old wood.
That is what I had been told a long time ago too, Nanny Beach.