To take my garden plants with me when I move house?

[Ragnar]

I have loved having a garden to cultivate and build in our garden for the last 3 years but I'm looking at moving soon and wondering; am I being unreasonable to take my plants with me? I've spent a fair amount of money getting flowers and some small trees that I love and would like to take them with me but will the next owners expect them to be there? Can I even move plants without doing them damage?

Currently potting plants up, prior to putting house on market.

Sad little story, the inverse of this.
I moved into a house, which had a well planned garden. A very good herb garden, looked like the previous occupants pride and joy. Over a few months, I potted up divisions or cuttings from all the herbs. Using precious minutes in life snatched from being single DM to 3. I took these round to previous occupants new house, thinking she'd be pleased to have her herb collection replicated. "Oh", she sighed" More gardening work, thought I'd got away from that".

Thats not a sad story, thats you being presumptous and not a little odd. If they had wanted cuttings etc they would have take some.

Wow, rude Live

I don't believe so. I don't think it was a sad story, and didn't warrant the face.

Plants (other than pots, tubs etc) are fixtures and should therefore be left unless you state on the fixtures and fittings list that you're taking them. The buyer would be within their rights to negotiate money off the asking price for them though as the expectation would be that they'd be left.

The rule of thumb is that you should leave anything that would stay put if you turned your property upside down. Anything else is a fitting and you can take.

I think it's mean to do this. Do you intend to take all the light bulbs too?

When our neighbours across the way bought their house they were surprised to find that a lot of the plants had disappeared out of the garden. They challenged the vendors about it and were told that the plants were all in pots - buried below the ground! Obviously that wasn't visible when viewing the property

I've recently moved. I think there wasn't a bit for plants on either f&f list. I had a chat with the owner of my new house, who even left pots as she was downsizing. My buyer didn't care (investor). So long as you are upfront, yes, you can do as you please.
Leave enough time to do the digging up though. You will be very busy!

I'm moving this week. I've potted up the two roses we were given as wedding presents just last year and taken sections of a fave few plants.
Our buyers only saw the place in winter and early spring where it looked fairly bare, so wouldn't have a foggiest what was there. likewise the place we're moving too, I remember it had a magnolia out the front and a rubarb in the veg patch but can't remember what else is there - as long as you don't strip the beds bare I'd say you're ok to take some of your plants but prob not trees

I would have presumed that plants in pots would usually go, and plants in the ground would usually stay, with separate agreement if deviating from this.

I'd take cuttings/divisions of the plants I really loved, then see the new garden as a fresh start. I wouldn't want to replicate my old garden, but would see it as somewhere to try out new plants and ideas. It will be exciting!