Re: Dirca palustris transplantability?

I have no experience transplanting this. Having said that, I would root prune it now and transplant in the fall doing your judicious pruning at that time. 

Bill Plummer
Painted Post NY
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com> 
To: <woodyplants@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 8:19 PM
Subject: Dirca palustris transplantability?



Hi everyone,

I now have a full-grown Dirca palustris on the back
side of my garage that I'd like to move.  I never
thought that it would get to be eight feet tall six
feet wide, so now it's encroaching on the walkway quite
a bit and is threatening to block it entirely.

I've been considering taking out a Rhododendron and
moving the leatherwood over about three feet, but I
don't know anything about it's transplantability.

Does anyone here have experience moving this species?
Is there a best time of year to do it?

Hightshoe lists it as 'very difficult to transplant' and
'slow to re-establish', so I wonder if I'm judicious
pruning is a better route.

Thanks,

Chris

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