the legal side of moving gardens

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:01:02 -0500, some mardy inna cardy wrote:

>If you cannot move the garden before you show the house to prospective 
>buyers, then you'd better make sure that removing plants is in your sale 
>contract; otherwise, I do believe that the plants/landscape are sold with the houe 
>and you do not have the right to take the plants.

Yes, that's right, and you certainly don't want to run into legal
problems over your garden lovelies. You can avoid the problems by
sticking something into the contracts ahead of time, like, you have
access to the garden for the first year to divide plants, or certain
things aren't included, or whatever works for you and the buyer. You
can always re-negotiate things at the time of signing if necessary.

I covered all these things with my landlords too when I rented. My
last landlady was a bit appalled at what I dug up once I started
(typical reaction), but, after assuring her all would fill in again in
about three years, she calmed down.

I liked the suggestion of using friends' gardens to remove starts and
whatnot before putting the property up for sale. Since I'm
contemplating one more move to the country, and I've got a friend with
a big yard who'd love to have a bit of whatever I have, I just might
do that one myself.

Melis

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