Too late to relocate a Buddleia?

Hi All,

Is it too late to relocate a standard buddleia?

It's about 4ft high and been in it's present position for about 3 years, I've decided to cut a hole in the lawn and put a plant there as a focal point, and since things are getting crowded in the border relocating the buddleia would be ideal and not cost me anything, but I don't want to upset it too much.

I remember moving a lupin one year and even though I took a large chunk of the garden with it, it never recovered.

Thanks.

 

Hi mothergoose , If I was you I wouldn't move it now. You could lose the flowers and that would be a shame. Iv'e never replanted one myself, but if I did I'd wait till very early spring, before it's put on to much new gowth. 02

 

MG, if you can leave it until the dormant season, as O2 says, then do so. If not, then do as follows. The night before moving the plant, give it a real good soaking with water. Also prepare the hole ready for planting. When you`ve dug the hole, fill it with water. When that has soaked away, fill it again. Do this 3 times. Either early yhe next morning or in the evening when it is cooler, dig up the plant, taking as much root ball as possible. Put it in it`s new situation at once, back fill and water in. Keep it moist but not waterlogged until it can fend for itself.:thumb:

 

If you do move it now then youll need to severly cut it back. Farr better to wait till the autumn/ winter.

 

MG, if you do it my way, you will not have to cut it back. But, I would still say, move it in the dormant season.

 

Daith, I will have to try what you sudgest. Mind it goes against everything I was told.

 

Paul, you need to folllow the steps I have laid out, but you can transplant virtually everything by following those simple rules.

 

OK, Will do. Just goes to show you learn something new every day!

 

I`ve got 50 years of gardening knowledge, you?

 

pleanty enough

 

Hi, Thanks for the advice. I think I'll leave it for now, I was talking to my dad about moving it and he said he thought I should leave it be and said he'd buy me a plant to put in the middle of my lawn :D , aww I love my dad