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: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:07:24 +1000
Nancy
I probably wouldn't until you have had them back in the ground a little
while - well watered of course - if there is any die back then hair cut
them
Hazel
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> From: Nancy S. deGrazia <nsshlaes@ameritech.net>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Sudden need to move Miscanthus and Strictus grasses
> Date: Monday, 21 August 2000 20:23
>
> Thanks for your help on Miscanthus. Hazel. You don't think I need to cut
it
> back?
> Nancy
>
> Hazel Bartlett-Griffiths wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > ----------
> > > 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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