Re: Moving Acacia willardiana Attn: Nan Sterman.

Nan Sterman wrote:
>
>  Hi all -- I have a pitiful Acacia willardiana that is in a spot where
>  I expect it is getting too much water.  I'd like to dig it up and
>  move it, when and how do you recommend I do so?
>
  Nan
I have not actually grown any Acacias myself, but a local writer whose
knowledge I respect says they are "almost impossible to transplant once
established in open ground". If the plant has not been in very long I
suppose you might just be able to dig up the rootball entire, so it
wouldn't be aware of being moved. Before attempting this it would be
advisable to water it well to make sure the soil doesn't try to fall
away.

Anyway if it is so unhapp where it is at present I suppose you have
little to lose.

As to the best time, I would say when the ground is warm, but not
parched and preferably when there is liklihood of a little rain just to
set it in.

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate

	Dear Nan,					06/10/00

I have grown and still grow many acacias: stenophylla, riceana. podalriifolia,
cultriformis, pravissima, cognota, etc.  I'm in full agreement with Moira's
experienced friend---they just don't transplant AND most that have been
propagated by cuttings never develop sturdy root systems.  I and my friends
have lost between five of us a full dozen A. stenophylla which have 
blown out of the ground, snapped 6" from the soil in a strong wind 
after 8 years in the
ground, lost their majority of lateral branches in a storm and fell over.
Worst of all when my bog one which gre facing the Gate with severe winds and
light staking fell over in a storm we uprighted it carefully (its roots were
never out of the soil) and staked it really well and it was dead four months
later.  I don't know the species you are growing but unless very rare or very
recently planted I'd get another one and try again in a better spot.  This
almost always works.

	Regards-Michael D. Barclay
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