moving house!

I know I've been quiet for a while, because I've been busy looking for a new house....
... we've now found one, and hope to be moving around June this year :-)

We've a number of plants that we'd like to take with us, and I wondered if people could give some advice on the best time to move them... I'm assuming that digging up now and putting in pots until the summer is probably a good "default" action, but if anyone has practical experience of this, I would be very grateful!

The plants in question are:
buddliea
euonymus
black currant (in 4 years, but has huge sentimental value)

rhubarb
Hebe "red edge"
"David Austin" Roses (been in for 3-4 years, some thriving, some still marking time)
primroses }
snowdrops} lift / divide after flowering?
Autumn crocus
wood anenome
honeysuckle (been in 2 years - move plants or take cuttings?)
cuttings of wisteria?

cuttings of redcurrant - best time to do this within my time-frame?


it feels like I'm doing this :grouphug:with all my favourite plants!

 

I don't see that it will be a problem lifting any of these plants as long as they go into pots and don't forget to keep them watered.

The snowdrops, as you say would be better lifted and divided after flowering and then again put into pots until you move. The same with crocuses.

Although the honeysuckle has been in two years it may still be possible to lift it. Perhaps you could investigate gently round the plants roots to see how far they have spread and make your decision from there.

Sorry, I don't know anything about redcurrants or Wisteria's.

If it was me I'd risk lifting all of them and I'd do it now before they start to put on spring growth.

 

Do tell Sian, fruit & romance for a dark winters night

 

dig out roses

Hi Sian,

as to your roses: I have no experience with lifting 3-4 year old roses, but I know they have deeps roots so I guess you would better use quite high pots, higher than their diameter. You might cut them a little bit back so that they are not to big for their diminished roots (after digging out). If they are shrub roses, cut back even less.

I would do it the same way like Sheal said, dig them all out and see how it goes..

Hey, you will needs loads of space in your removal van for all your plants!!

 

not quite, ziggy:o

It was a plant I asked my parents to bring out from UK when they visited a few years ago (nothing special, but don't recognise the named varieties here in Belgium). My father died 10 months later, so it was the last contribution he made to our garden. I had always worked in the garden at home as a child, and still did / do quite a bit of maintenance when I go home to visit.

 

another plant, which I've never done cuttings of before - there's an established ghost rose here (looks to be about 20-30 years old, and not on root-stock). Is it possible to take cuttings from that? The stems are fantastic in the winter, and the young purple leaves have passers-by stopping to comment. A nice memory to take with us, as we leave this mouldy house behind!

 

Thats a lovely tale Sian.

 

I'm a little sentimental like that, Ziggy. :DOH:

The rosemary plant I have here I can trace back to the rosemary plant my parents had when I was a child (they have long since replaced the original). I took a cutting for my 1st flat, and then cutting from that for our house when I got married, then a cutting of that was brought out here to Belgium. I took some cuttings last year, ready for this coming move....

 

When evil girlfriend left me, she gave me a red rose. When she came back, I showed her the bush i'd grown from that rose.

Should have used gyphosate.

 

On the ex girlfriend or the rose?

 

I'd like to see a picture of this if you have one please Sian?

 

this is the rose, sheal. You can get some idea of scale from the under-planting

 

I took nearly all my plants with me as id spent a fortune on them over 5 years. I potted them up before i sold the house so they wouldnt see them and took them to my mums. She kept them there and watered them until i moved into my new place. Some looked a bit battered, but i never lost one and now they are all happy with me in my new pad.

 

This post triggered something with me

Are you allowed to remove plants, when you go, if the house was purchased as seen
I know IF I viewed a home with a nice garden, then bought it
I would be devastated to find an empty wilderness when I moved in

Jack McHammocklashing