Re: Sudden need to move Miscanthus and Strictus grasses
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- Subject: Re: Sudden need to move Miscanthus and Strictus grasses
- From: L* N*
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:56:37 -0400
- References: <39A04A06.A9C86A64@ameritech.net>
I've never seen a dead miscanthus. I'd just dig them up, put them aside,
keeping the roots moist, and them replant them.
Laura
6a, Cleveland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy S. deGrazia" <nsshlaes@ameritech.net>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 5:13 PM
Subject: Sudden need to move Miscanthus and Strictus grasses
> On Friday the intake pipe that goes from our well to our house developed
> a serious leak which means it must be replaced. Luckily, the only real
> excavation to be done is around the wellhead itself, but it is in the
> middle of an ornamental grasses bed.
>
> I must move 2 5ft. Miscanthus sinensis Gracillimuss and 1 zebrina or
> strictus (I can't remember which). I don't really have to "move" them,
> I jut need to "remove"them for 3 days while the work is done.
>
> How do you suggest I go about it. I could:
> a) cut them back to one-two feet and find a permanent new home
> for them
> b) cut them back to one-two feet and heel them in temporarily &
> return them in 3-4
> days to their original home
> c) do (a) or (b) without cutting them back
> d) do something else, I know not what
>
> There is also some verbena bonariensis there.
>
> Any assistance you-all can give me will be much appreciated. The
> contractor comes on Wednesday morning.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Nancy S. deGrazia
>
>
>
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