Digging up plants to move

[duebaby2]

Looking to move September to October (waiting on completion of house). I have a small bush rose and two mop head hydrangeas in my garden, would they survive being dug up, transported and either put in a pot or put back into the ground when it's autumn?

If there's a risk of dying/me killing them in the process, I'll leave them for the next tenants, but considering they are probably the three most expensive plants I have currently I don't really want to leave hem behind!

The rose will be fine I would have thought. Take lots of cuttings too and then even if the main plant doesn't survive you'll have babies. I have a climbing rose hedge in part of the garden and when I cut the top straggly bits off earlier in the year I literally just stuck them in some rooting hormone and then poked them into the ground. I now have loads of plants!

My hydrangeas have also been fine being moved but mine were moved from a pot to the ground rather than the other way around.

the rose will be fine.
cut off quite a bit of the foliage so that when you dig it out it's the same size as the roots.
30l pot.
feed it once it starts putting on new foliage.

not sure if you can do the same witg the hydraenga. possibly yes, but you might lose a flower season depending on how much you need to cut it back.

I have moved lots of plants. My advice would be to give them a really long soaking the evening before you dig them up. Dig them out first thing the next morning, but if you cannot do that, water them again before you lift them. Prune them as you would if it was later in the season. Dig them up and put them into a pot slightly larger than the root ball. They will be fine. If your Rose has a very long tap root, you can cut it a bit to make it fit the pot.

Hydrangea are very easy to grow from cuttings. Mine even rooted in a glass of water.

That's good to hear. I think everything will go into pots until we work out what we are going to do with the garden since it'll be a completely new garden with no borders just grass from every side. I will definitely take the advice I've been given though 🙂

I moved several plants the same time as you will but a year ago! How time flies. Anyway, the rose did fine, my daisy plants did fine. My fuschia didn't however it was mostly killed by the harsh winter before moving anyway. I'd say to give it a go! Great idea to take cuttings too (though i'm yet to acquire the knack of growing from cuttings and still have a zero percent success rate...haven't tried Hydrangea yet though, will give it a go!)

If you're selling your current place rather than moving out of rental, then you need to make sure you've specified in the documents that you're taking the plants. If they're in the ground, they're regarded as fixtures, and are expected to be left. You can take them, provided you've stated clearly that they're excluded from the sale.

@MereDintofPandiculation I'm renting going into another rental. These were plants that I bought myself and other than the gaps the next people that live here won't know they were even there because they won't see this house until we've gone.

This is why most of our fruit bushes and plants are in pots so that they can just be taken with us when moved as we didn't know how long we'd actually stay in this house. The next house we hope to buy after so many years so will be planting the plants there