Moving garden plants when moving house

[PetuniaLop]

I have a largish garden with many mature plants. Will be moving house hopefully May/June and want to take some of them with me. Next house has a largish garden, mainly lawn at present.

I know Autumn would be better time for the plants but I can't be choosy. How do I go about this task?

That’s fine though, you need to replace them, obviously, and you need to say in the particulars you’re doing so. As long as the buyer agrees it’s fine.

That’s batshit. They picked a seller because they wouldn’t chop a tree down then checked? Did they not realise when they sell something it’s no longer theirs?

I made it clear from the beginning of the sales process.

I took a lilac bush and some roses.

They all had sentimental value.

And seeing as the new owners ripped everything out and concreted any thing they could it was no problem.

The point I was making is that it is far from unusual for new owners to completely wreck a long-established mature garden, and that people will do it anyway, despite saying to the vendor that they won't. Thereby not giving the vendor the opportunity to rescue much-loved plants before they are destroyed.

I merely used my relative's experience as an example of what can happen.

It's not batshit. Destroying a lovely little tree is batshit.

They didn't check ffs. I never said that. Their former NDN told them about it, as she was really sad to see the tree chopped down as well.

They had several buyers who had all made an offer of the full asking price, and ended up choosing the buyers who said they absolutely loved the garden, particularly the tree. They were glad to sell the property to people who liked the garden as much as they did.

this happened to a friend and she took the previous owners to court and won and they had to pay her a fair amount.

Yes I’d go after someone if they stripped the garden.

not sure the op is coming back. Prob out digging up her garden.

We sold my mother’s house when she went into a care home, and the lovely garden. Never told her that the new owners destroyed it for an extension, parking and decking.
She spent her last years pottering around the lovely gardens at the care home and reminiscing fondly about her garden.

I would sound out your buyers and come to an agreement - technically the plants are in the sale but they may not be fussy as long as you don't leave a wreckage behind.

Im not surprised the OP won't come back, this thread is batshit. Love how all these evil buyers are at the ready with their bulldozers and chainsaws. Of course a house that was someone's home is going to hold sentimental value, but when it's sold it becomes bricks and mortar to the next person who hasn't laid down any memories.

it doesn't detract from the fact that digging up plants and removing them from a garden without seeking permission first is a breach of contract, no matter how much people here try to justify it - it's stealing!!

Well yes obviously. I'm not going to leave gaping holes! I already have the sink and toilet that came with the bath ready to put in when I take the ones I'm keeping out.

Not the point but it's flipping disgraceful when people pave beautiful gardens over.

The fact the op hasn’t come back indicates she was planning on taking much more than a couple of little bits. As does the fact she even had to ask how to do it. You only ask if it’s a big job. No one asks how to go about digging up a few small plants.

but you didn’t just sell the house. You sold the house, the garden and the fixtures and fittings, you legally need to say if you’re taking anything. And that includes plants in the ground, so I hope she’s listened to the advice and speaking to her solicitor.

in addition many plants, especially mature ones won’t survive what she’s planning, and she’d need to do it very close to completion as if the buyers visit and see she’s dug up the garden to take it with her, there would be signficant issues.

it always surprises me what some folks plan to take when they move. One of my sellers took the light bulbs. We got the keys after work on a winters night, and thought the power didn’t work, we had to turn around and go to the supermarket immediately with our young child in tow when we realised there were no bulbs.

Yes. It shouldn’t be allowed. So many lovely front gardens I walk past on way to work are now gravel or car parking.

@changefromhr

I agree, and think there should be a law where a % or your outdoor space should be plants/grass/wild