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new Gardner help!!
sofiliveira
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Hi everyone,
I am new to being a gardener!! I have a shrub on my front garden that I really don't know what to do with it and don't even know the name of it! Can someone help me to identify it please?
I like minimalistic modern gardens and don't really know what to do to it to make it look better!
Thanks! 
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Looks like a cotoneaster to me.
Cot
Cotoneaster. I've been told they don't like to be moved but I have one that I'd love to move.
Cotoneaster horizontalis
If you want to move it, then move it. Water it well first, dig it up with as much root as possible and preferably with soil still round the roots. Have the place you're moving it to ready - big hole already dug - then put it in, firm it well, water it well and give it a good talking to. If it's a big plant with lots of greenery then a fairly robust prune is often a good idea to reduce the amount of water it loses (through ts leaves) while the roots are still establishing. But if you move it with plenty of soil still on the roots and manage not to damage the tap root too severely, most plants don't even know they have been moved and just carry on as if nothing happened.
Plants want to live, some 'sulk' when you move them - i.e. it takes a season or two for them to re-establish their roots and begin to grow again. But if you give it every chance to survive and move it to a spot where conditions suit it, 9 times out of 10 it will be fine.
And on the odd occasion when one doesn't survive, then you have an opportunity to go shopping for something you like better
. It's only if the plant has some huge emotional significance that you have to take precautionary measures (like getting cuttings to strike before you move it, so you have a replacement in an emergency).
Last edited: 04 April 2017 08:22:58
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