Re: moving Japanese Maple?
well, maybe the answer is something in the middle, which is to dig the new
hole yourself, or with the help of a good cheap high school age back and
free the root ball as much as possible, then get a professional crew in for
the final digging and moving.
Good luck! I have a couple of mature trees and shrubs that are in
inconvenient places. It's hard to know how to cope without losing the plant.
M
At 05:47 PM 03/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, no, hence my query to this forum...
>
>At 02:29 PM 3/13/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>>They did say that you could hand dig the thing, but in practical terms, can
>>you move a 4-5 ft root ball?
>>
>>
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>>At 01:10 PM 03/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>>that's not within my means -- did the show say whether this was considered
>>>mandatory?
>>>
>>>s.
>>>
>>>>I saw this done once on a landscaping TV show. They used a back hoe to
dig
>>>>up a root ball gthe same size as the avobe ground portion of the tree
and a
>>>>forklift to move it to the new spot, which had also been dug by the
>backhoe.
>>>>
>>>>Madelin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>At 07:34 PM 03/12/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>>Why not build the deck around it and use it as a focal point? Just a
>>>>>thought.
>>>>>Kate
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>From: "Silke-Maria Weineck" <smwei@UMICH.EDU>
>>>>>To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>>>>>Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:29 PM
>>>>>Subject: [SG] moving Japanese Maple?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>| We are building a deck in a shady spot, and in the middle of this spot,
>>>>>| there's a gorgeous Japanese Maple, about five to six feet high -- do
you
>>>>>| think it can survive a move or should I not even try?
>>>>>|
>>>>>| Silke
>>>>>|
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--------
>>>Silke-Maria Weineck, Ph.D.
>>>Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
>>>3110 MLB
>>>University of Michigan
>>>http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~weinecks
>>>
>>>
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