Re: Moving large Rhodie
- Subject: Re: Moving large Rhodie
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:11:07 EDT
In a message dated 6/6/01 8:18:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com writes:
<<
No big deal. Spray it thoroughly with an anti-desiccant such as wilt-pruf
(and I mean *thoroughly* both top and bottom of leaf surfaces - all leaf
surfaces.
Then dig up as many roots as you can - leaving as much of a root ball as
you can manage. The instructions for doing a root ball digging job are in
most good gardening books. >>
You might try one more thing added to the above very good advice.
Most contractors are subcontractors to the the developer. It makes little
difference to them where the debris goes. In NYS you cannot pile up the
debris and bury it as one did in the past, it must be trucked away to
whatever system your state uses.
If one of those guys has a backhoe he would probably dig and lift that rhodie
for you and drive it down the street, providing you are on the same street.
You might give him a generous tip and tell him to have lunch on you.
If he could not leave the site, he could sit the plant on a big blue tarp and
you could figure it from there.
This is our business past and giving away shrubbery was often done. Remember
a big smile, a generous tip and it can be probably be managed. Have a site
prepared at you home to drop the rhodie when it gets there.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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