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Moving house... take plant supports?

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Momniscient · 17/01/2022 16:38

I don't know what would be considered reasonable here, so I'd appreciate thoughts from any gardeners who have moved house. While I'm planning on leaving all plants in the ground, and taking the pots, I'm unsure about supports that don't currently have growth iyswim. So the dahlia support that is currently outside (so I know where it'll be) but isn't currently actually supporting anything... I'm assuming I can take that with me with no drama.

What about supports around climbers, or shrubs that are sort of climbers, like jasmine? It's the wrong time of year to prune it down and lift away the support, and I think I need to leave it in situ. I have one jasmine that is thorough entwined in trellis and that needs to stay where it is, but the other is more of a shrub that I have partially trained into a support.

Future owners are novice keen gardeners so i don't want to ruin the plants, but equally I know design/taste is personal. And thoughts welcome!

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MereDintofPandiculation · 18/01/2022 08:41

Anything purely temporary I would have thought you could take.

If it’s more permanent it will be assumed to be included in the sale. But you can still take it if it’s specified in the contract

JustJam4Tea · 18/01/2022 10:17

I specified in the contract that I'd be taking some shrubs and plants. The buyers weren't gardeners at all so were quite happy with that.

We were lucky that our vendors let our movers move all the pots and garden stuff the day before into their back garden as the house was empty. It was a mucky job that the movers had completely underquoted for. There was some grumbling but I tipped them well.

I also figured that they had no idea about some of the stuff that was in the ground and not showing so dug them up and put in pots and took.

Supports are fine to take. Something like a jasmine you could cut down and take the support as it'll spring back fine - but that's a judgement call for you.

My actions were largely based on the fact that I had a lot of lovely plants and they weren't gardeners. I'm glad I did as they'd paved over most of it last time I went past. And also incredibly brutally pruned a beautiful tree...

Momniscient · 18/01/2022 10:58

Thank you both, that's very helpful.

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