Re: SIB: Moving in late fall.

From: GWhite & LRader <bentfork@navix.net>



Wjobe@aol.com wrote:

> From: Wjobe@aol.com
>
> Barbara,
> If you decide to beg and plead with the new owners, then you best get
> it in writing!!  My mother and I both had experiences where we were
> told we could come back in the spring and dig, but come spring, the new
> owners  had changed their minds!!  I always figured that it was best to
> go ahead and dig.  If I lost it, well I was going to lose it by leaving it
> too!
> It sounds like the Sibs may be going dormant if the older leaves have
> turned brown, even though there are some small green leaves.  If the ground
> is too frozen to to replant them, you might keep them in the garage
> for the winter (potted of course).  I have found that once you leave the
> property, you can never go back and get things, so when  we would move
> I would dig and pot everything I wanted to take with me.

Barbara,

    I agree with Leslie.  By all means, take the plants now.  My wife, an ex real
estate agent, cautions that the agreement for you to move the plants should be
specific as to exactly what you are taking, when you will move them, and how you
leave the ground where they were.  At least where she worked, any plants in the
ground (except annual vegetables and crop plants) were considered as much a part
of the real estate as the house. The new owners may very well deny you access in
the spring to get them if this isn't spelled out precisely.
    We moved across the country a few years ago in October to Nebraska and
planted in late October and November.  Included in this move were several hundred
daylilies and about 50 clumps of siberian irises.  We dug the clumps intact,
leaving as much soil around the roots as possible, put them in plastic grocery
bags and kept them for at least 3 to 4 weeks before we could get everything
planted again.  We watered the clumps occasionally and they all survived that
first Nebraska winter (zone 4/5) just fine.  If you can dig the clumps intact,
then plant very soon, they should do quite well, I believe.  Your problems may
arise with new plants that are not well established with good root systems.
Those, I would still move, though, and take my chances rather than try to go back
in the spring to get them.
    One other note I would make.  If you have plants that you are leaving for the
new owners to enjoy, don't be too generous unless you really know that these
folks will appreciate the plants as you do.  We left several very nice plants
(small shrubs, peonies, etc) just to watch the new owners dig them up, throw them
out and turn the wonderful garden area we had built up back into lawn.  In
retrospect, we would have taken those little treasures with us.  So you live and
learn.  I hope this helps and that it all works out.  Let us know what happens.

Gary White,
Lincoln, NE  -  Getting woozy just reading about Leslie, relocating her whole
garden.  Sounds very much like our little (giant) experience 6 years ago.  Not
gonna do that again till the next millenium!  (I mean the one starting in 3000!!)

>
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