The joy of moving plants

[Level75]

This probably sounds silly but I've just discovered the joy of moving plants around my garden!

I've a load of self seeded foxgloves at the front of some beds that I've moved to the back. I've moved some fritillaria (sp) into a clump from being scattered around. I've moved a load of aquilegia.

And in my biggest move I dug up a stupidly positioned heather (blocks the access to the lawn) to a back border. It probably won't be happy as it's not in the shade but for now it looks great!

Don't know why it hasn't occured to me to do this before! Task for today is to dig, divide and move a huge fern that's too far forward in a bed.

Hello Level75!

Yes to moving plants. I've got a largish hebe in a pot that needs to be in a border and I'm thinking about where it would like to be.

It's like having a whole new garden without spending a fortune.

Oh yes - I love moving and dividing plants. It appeal to my inner Scrooge! It's like rearranging the furniture (another thing I love!)

Ah, I'm not a mover of furniture. Maybe that explains why I'll do anything to avoid moving plants! The most I'll do is replant elsewhere something (eg primrose) that I've deliberately pulled up as a weed.

I have also discovered this joy!! last year i got so many half price plants i just planted anywhere just to get them in soil and established as they were all half dead

I moved a few last year but now need to re-arrange again....i've had no disasters and none have failed to thrive. not bad considering i don't really have much of a clue what i'm doing

I do the thing of having plants in plastic pots and put them into a pretty pot when they are doing their thing. It's easy to swap the plastic pots without needed a huge collection of ( expensive) nice pots.

We have a very wet border in winter, we're on clay, and I totally get 'right plant, right place', but all my favourite plants hate boggy conditions in winter...so in the autumn I give up a day to digging most of them out and storing them in large pots until about April when the re-planting starts!

Probably mad, but I also love alliums, Purple sensation especially running through the border and they'd rot over winter, so I dig them out, grow them all in pots and plant in April. Autumn comes and it all starts again!

I think having bare soil is probably not ideal over the winter but we put a layer of mulch on in March and the clay does dry out and is actually really fertile soil and once back in, the plants thrive. They really do cope well with being moved.

This is my transplanted heather. There's been nothing in this area apart from some low ground cover so this is a big improvement - even if it dies soon!

Looks fab OP. This weekend I have moved 2 mint plants, a Russian tarragon, a thyme that had layered itself where I didn't want it, several clumps of chives, a clump of French sorrel and some onions that had started to grow from some self spread seed in random pots (I missed an onion when harvesting the year before last and couldn't be arsed to take it out when it started flowering last year).

In the last few weeks I have lifted, split and replanted hellebores, rhubarb and a potted chrysanthemum. Love it!