RE: Moving trees
- Subject: RE: Moving trees
- From: "Saxton, Susan" S*@schwabe.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:59:09 -0700
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- Thread-topic: Moving trees
May give this a try, OR my son (with a new garden) may be willing to do the work for the plants.
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From: Melissa Hellen [m*@horizonview.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 3:28 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Moving trees
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:01:02 -0500, some mardy inna cardy wrote:
>I had too many losses on trees,
>
>I don't plan to take any of the trees, most are 10 years old at least and the one new one, a kousa dogwood, I won't try. They don't seem to transplant well in my one experience with that!
It's definitely not as easy to move them. A trick I learned from a
nursery-running friend of mine (this only works when you know well
ahead of time you're moving) is first, to take plan your move in the
spring, and in the preceding late fall, after the trees are starting
to show color, go out and take a shovel to the roots inside the drip
line, trimming them as best you can by cutting down into the soil as
deeply as you can, all the way around the tree (picture the size of
root ball you'd expect to find on a nursery tree--about that big. This
size will tell you whether you can realistically manage to move the
tree or not. don't attempt a really sizeable one unless you've got a
friend with a backhoe). The tree has gone dormant by fall so the root
cutting won't make too much difference to it over the winter, and in
the spring when you dig it up, it'll be surging with growth and put
out lots of new roots once you set it in the ground.
This is also the way to move a woodland tree you covet, BTW, although
you should check your local laws before you start digging, as many
types of trees are protected species and it's illegal to lift them
from the wild.
Melis
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