Re: Sudden need to move Miscanthus and Strictus grasses
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- Subject: Re: Sudden need to move Miscanthus and Strictus grasses
- From: H* B*
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:19:39 +1000
Hi Nancy
this is my first posting on this site - only been attached? for a week.
I have moved Miscanthus before and the best thing I can think of to tell
you is water it really really well. cover the roots with anything you have
- mulch or earth then plant asap - should be fine.
Hazel
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> From: Nancy S. deGrazia <nsshlaes@ameritech.net>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Sudden need to move Miscanthus and Strictus grasses
> Date: Monday, 21 August 2000 7:13
>
> 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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