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    Thanks Sian. I like the slightly weeping aspect to it. :dbgrtmb:
     
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    Jack, I think you have to state now whether you are taking plants from the garden and list what you are taking. :)
     
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    I agree Jack,

    I think the other poster hid their plants at their Mum's house, whilst letting people view the property. I know when we sold our flat, I had all the plants I wanted to take in pots, and told all viewers that the potted plants were travelling with me.

    We rent our current house here. We were fortunate that our landlord was happy with us planting things in the ground, but in Belgium it is normal that you either do not have permission to plant in the ground, or you have to return the grounds to their previous state when you leave.

    hmmm - I wonder if that means I need to put all the ground elder and marestails back in? :heehee:
     
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      A little work in the garden this morning, and the following plants are now in pots, sunk into the raised bed:

      buddliea
      euonymus
      primroses (decided to split off a clump early)
      snowdrops (lifted the ones that flower at Christmas, and also a clump in full flower now - prob lift some more after flowering finished)
      honeysuckle - found that the cuttings I took last summer are already in leaf!
      lamb's ear
      some sort of michealmas daisy
      white foxglove

      I think the raised bed might be full by the end of this task!:happydance:
       
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      Hi Sian,
      have you found a way how to deal with your ghost rose?
       
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      not yet, loveweeds. Today I concentrated on the lifting and dividing of plants. I thought I'd do the cuttings when the ground is a little warmer, and the sap a little more mobile (don't know if this is right or not...)
       
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      Hi Sian, maybe you should email to a nursery which grows their own roses, they might be able to give some qualified advice, they might even be keen to have some cuttings themselves:-)
      its a really nice plant:rolleyespink:
       
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      2012-03-14-blackcurrant.jpg

      Here's my lifted black-currant "Ben Lomond", affectionately known as 'Dad'.

      As you can see, he's quite big (trowel to give some idea of scale, about 80-100cm tall). I was given him as at least a 2 year old plant, he was in a pot for the first year with us, and has spent the last 4 years in the ground on a south-facing bed. (fighting for shoulder-room with a wisteria and an enormous red-currant!

      I know that I need to prune him, in order for him to survive the ordeal of being so un-ceremoniously yanked out of the ground. The question is, how much? Shortening each stem? taking out some of the older stems? Help!!
       
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      just to show that I've been busy, here's my "holding bed". We've got chives, garlic chives, normal snowdrops, my special Christmas snowdrops (thanks Pam H!), day-lily,
      purple-leaved sage (worryingly not showing leaf yet), lambs ears, london pride, budlea, white foxglove, purple primrose, purple bugle, sedum spectabalis, euonymus, honeysuckle, rosemary, lavender.

      Also newly taken cuttings of rosea glauca, redcurrant, wisteria and yew.

      Please note - not planning to take the ground elder!!
      2012-03-14-moving-plants.jpg
       
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