Moving house and taking seeds?

[WhyPie]

I'm not a gardener so excuse my ignorance. I'm about to make a big move but would love to bring some flowers from my current garden as so many memories are attached to them. We have poppies, thistles, roses. Is it possible to do this? How would I harvest the seeds and then replant? Many thanks if you can bear to reply :-)

Poppies, if you see brown seed heads before you go, snap them off and put into a paper bag.

Thistles, won't set seed til autumn.

Roses, best to take cuttings.

To get poppy seeds, put a paper bag over flower head to catch the seeds. Can you dig the roses up to take with you, I don’t think plants are part of fixtures and fittings.

Defo take with you.

When I bought this house 10 years ago, there were some lovely plants in the garden but when I moved in I realised the previous owners had taken them with them. I didn’t begrudge them, they belonged to them. I replaced bits and bobs over the years.

There was a beautiful rose in a garden of a previous house I owned which I really wish I’d known at the time I could take with me. I’ve spent ever since then trying to find the same species to no avail.

Defo take with you.

Google how to take cuttings from a rose bush, it's relatively simple and usually successful.

Plants in pots can go with you. Anything that needs digging up should be listed on the fixtures and fittings form if you're taking it.

Plants in the ground are fixtures. You can take them only if you advise the buyer that they are not included in the sale.

I think if you have a particular rose bush you treasure you can dig it up and take it with you. Wrap loads of soil around roots though.

Thanks all, and then I just plant the seeds when I get there and hope they take?

I took loads from mine. It was agreed in the contract.

BIL was on hand to plant them in new garden. They all survived.

Unlike this year where the winter killed then all.

Each plant species has different requirements for growing from seed. You can search for them individually.

The downside of growing from seed is that you don't know what you are going to get. Many garden plants are hybrids and don't come true from seed.

I remember viewing a house where the home owner took me round the garden and pointed out about twenty to thirty plants in the garden that would be going with her. Wasn't the house for me anyway but it made me laugh thinking of all the holes that would be left when she moved out.
So yes you can take them with you but you have to inform the buyer they'll be going.
You could try potting up a couple of plants now if you don't mind watering them

I'd be digging up lots of plants or pieces of the plants and taking them too.
I have two very large rhododendrons that have accompanied me on two house moves!

I’ve got across that’s followed me on 3. It must be 21 years old and still going strong!

For poppies I find a root cutting works best - I would divide the poppy now and put some into a large pot and then when you move take the pot with you.