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It’s
time to move to your new home. You’ve spent two weeks packing and you
think you’re ready. You hired ‘Two Rocket-Surgeons and a POD’ to
slowly load all of your furniture and boxes, micromanaged all the way. The
deal has closed and the new family will move in as soon as their
brother-in-law painter covers all of the faux finishes that you paid
thousands of dollars to have an artist create just for you.
As
you look one last time at your old house, I’m sure you are thinking
about all of the time and money you spent decorating your garden. Every
year you planted some perennials with your annuals so you could have an
ever-blooming garden. Some of the perennials are still blooming and some
are dormant. You are wishing that you could take them all with you, but
the selling deal says that you can’t remove ‘real property.’ Plants
are considered real property if they are in the ground.
You
have met the buyers of your home and you know they’ll just rip
everything up and plant a token Bradford pear, ten dwarf yaupons and four
cleyeras. What would be the harm in taking them? You can take some
of them.
The
plants that were dormant when the deal was made were never seen by the
real estate agent. Can you say, "out of sight, out of mind?" You
can also take cuttings and divisions of the plants that are obvious. Just
cover your evidence with a fresh layer of mulch or pine straw. Be sure to
leave everything appearing the same as it did when the deal was made.
If
you are moving house plants or other container plants, try to move them in
a closed in truck. If you are moving them in an open truck, it is best to
move them in the early morning or late afternoon. Cover the plants with
shade cloth or bed sheets to prevent the sun and wind from beating them up
or burning them.
If
the temperature is below 40°, you should make sure to use extra covers
for your plants, especially
if you’re planning on flying down the road at seventy miles an hour.
I
just moved last month and can you guess what I did? Yup! I dug and cut and
mulched and mulched and cut and dug and…You get the picture.
Yes,
Folks, moving can be a major pain in the plants. Don’t wait till you get
to your new
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