A shrubbery question. Well she moved them.

September 09, 2019, 10:03 AM

You might try "Plant Snap" app on you phone to identify those. Works surprisingly well. Free at the App Store.

As to transplanting as already pointed out the more intact root system you excavate the better the chances they will survive and thrive. I did move a box wood a couple of years ago that only had a few bare roots attached. It did survive and looks pretty good today, but it took about 4-5 years to get to that point. It went into an area that wasn't very visible so it wasn't a big deal, but I wouldn't suggest that unless you are willing to live with a half dead plant for a number of years.

September 09, 2019, 10:49 AM

83v45magna

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Originally posted by DukeMinski:
Eight posts ! ! !
It took us EIGHT posts to get to
" The Knights Who Say 'Ni' " ? ? ?

That's the first thing I thought of.

Me too.

September 09, 2019, 11:16 AM

cparktd

As a red neck complete amateur I devised a method to move a ~ 10 foot Tulip Popular I planted as a sprig from one property to another.

I dug a trench about 1 foot deep around the drip line, then made a lasso out of 1/8" aircraft cable and looped that around the root ball at the bottom of the trench and pulled it through with my truck. That cut off the bottom roots and the soil. Then I winched the thing up some loading ramps into my truck.

Must have worked pretty good, now, decades later, the tree is now nearly 50 feet tall!

September 09, 2019, 11:54 AM

^^^^^^^^

I would love to see pictures of that. Sometimes, the simple idea works better than expected.

September 09, 2019, 12:53 PM

arcwelder

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
Probably not an issue to move them. Try grabbing them close to the roots and give a steady, even pull and see if they'll come out of the ground with the entire root ball. You should also be able to trim them with a hedge trimmer, if you want to leave them there.

Hey uh, Jimmy?

Why would you tell someone to do this?

I don't know.

Hey guys.

If you don't have actual experience with something, and are just guessing or googling, just skip it. We can all appreciate the urge to help out, but when you don't know, you don't know what you don't know. This has the potential of doing harm, or at least confusing a solution.

September 09, 2019, 03:33 PM

HRK

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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
Probably not an issue to move them. Try grabbing them close to the roots and give a steady, even pull and see if they'll come out of the ground with the entire root ball. You should also be able to trim them with a hedge trimmer, if you want to leave them there.

Hey uh, Jimmy?

Why would you tell someone to do this?

I don't know.

Hey guys.

If you don't have actual experience with something, and are just guessing or googling, just skip it. We can all appreciate the urge to help out, but when you don't know, you don't know what you don't know. This has the potential of doing harm, or at least confusing a solution.

In Jimmys defence, FL is a sandy soil state, I'm able to pull some plants out by hand, theres no resistance and the full ball and root system will come out.

Generally with our sandy soil you get the full root with the ball vs cutting off root ends. Not all shrubs can be done this way, old shrubs like the 24 year old viburnums we have will take a bit more work, but if it's small enough similar in size to the green balls in question, you can probably grab it by the base and pull slowly and it will pop right out.

If you don't live here or in any loose sandy soil environment then you don't have experience with it, just sayin....

September 09, 2019, 03:48 PM

arcwelder

HRK, that was for everybody. Jimmy doesn't need "defending."

September 09, 2019, 04:09 PM

mark123

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Mark, how come the spade is ninety bucks? I see it is from A.M. Leonard. What makes it cost so much? Is this like getting Felco bypass pruners?? Thanks

It's sharp and flat and heavy. It'll dig around a root ball, cut roots and pry it out without flexing or breaking.

September 09, 2019, 04:20 PM

jimmy123x

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Originally posted by HRK:
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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
Probably not an issue to move them. Try grabbing them close to the roots and give a steady, even pull and see if they'll come out of the ground with the entire root ball. You should also be able to trim them with a hedge trimmer, if you want to leave them there.

Hey uh, Jimmy?

Why would you tell someone to do this?

I don't know.

Hey guys.

If you don't have actual experience with something, and are just guessing or googling, just skip it. We can all appreciate the urge to help out, but when you don't know, you don't know what you don't know. This has the potential of doing harm, or at least confusing a solution.

In Jimmys defence, FL is a sandy soil state, I'm able to pull some plants out by hand, theres no resistance and the full ball and root system will come out.

Generally with our sandy soil you get the full root with the ball vs cutting off root ends. Not all shrubs can be done this way, old shrubs like the 24 year old viburnums we have will take a bit more work, but if it's small enough similar in size to the green balls in question, you can probably grab it by the base and pull slowly and it will pop right out.

If you don't live here or in any loose sandy soil environment then you don't have experience with it, just sayin....

This. Soil is sandy, loose, and usually always wet here in FL. And, judging by the OP's picture his soil is very wet also. We don't have clay soil and we don't have rocks in our soil, we have sandy muck. So small hedge bushes and things of that nature, like the OP has, do come out of the ground easily here if they're less than a year old. Even older. 40-50 knot winds pushed my 10' high frangipan tree over onto the ground in Irma when we had rain for 3 stray days and it had been there for 10 years, complete root ball and all. I pulled it back up, put it back into the same hole, put a mound of dirt over the top of the root system, tied ropes a few feet up the base on 3 sides for 6 months and it's been fine for 2 years.

Like I said, the OP is in FL. I've watched numerous landscapers easily pull up a hedge bush that has been planted within 6 months or so, they grab it by the base and pull easily and the entire rootball, dirt and everything come up. I've done it myself. If it doesn't come out with a slight steady one handed pull, they get out the shovel. These are landscape companies, that only deal in decorative landscaping, they don't cut grass or any of the other stuff. BUT, all of our hedge plants come in pots too.

There's something to be said for knowing the soil of the location or state you're talking about also. This isn't Michigan with hard, clay soil.

Landscapers here do the same stuff another member is talking about. They plant the landscaping so it looks full, the day they're done planting it......then sure enough, 6 months later, people are pulling some out and moving it because everything is growing on top of each other. The worst is they put 15' tall palm trees 6-8' apart...….yet when they get 25-45' tall it's a huge problem.

September 09, 2019, 05:00 PM

V-Tail

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

Like I said, the OP is in FL.

My geography is a little fuzzy. Maybe you can help me. Exactly what part of Florida is Kentucky?

September 09, 2019, 06:14 PM

LS1 GTO

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

Like I said, the OP is in FL.
My geography is a little fuzzy. Maybe you can help me. Exactly what part of Florida is Kentucky?

Well you face east and real subtle like, turn right.

September 09, 2019, 06:20 PM

V-Tail

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Well you face east and real subtle like, turn right.

September 09, 2019, 07:17 PM

jimmy123x

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

Like I said, the OP is in FL.
My geography is a little fuzzy. Maybe you can help me. Exactly what part of Florida is Kentucky?

I thought Black was in Northern Florida near the Panhandle. I thought I saw that in some previous post a while back when he posted a pic of his backyard or something of that nature. His profile page and post doesn't say a location.

September 09, 2019, 07:19 PM

V-Tail

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

I thought

There's your problem, right there.

September 09, 2019, 07:23 PM

jimmy123x

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

I thought
There's your problem, right there.

And, you know he lives in KY how exactly?

September 09, 2019, 07:23 PM

LS1 GTO

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

I thought
There's your problem, right there.

Didn't take my advice, didn't another's, nor did he take Arc's - so nothing has changed; Jimmy doesn't think

To paraphrase; better to be thought a silent fool than be a keyboard commando know-it-all and remove all doubt.

Jimmy, my most heartfelt advice - quit posting and just read & learn. This way when you want to post a funny cat or dog pic, you can.

September 09, 2019, 07:31 PM

V-Tail

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
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Originally posted by V-Tail:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

I thought
There's your problem, right there.
And, you know he lives in KY how exactly?

Who would like to answer this for the man?

Anyone?

Class?

Bueller?

September 09, 2019, 07:37 PM

jimmy123x

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
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Originally posted by V-Tail:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

I thought
There's your problem, right there.

Didn't take my advice, didn't another's, nor did he take Arc's - so nothing has changed; Jimmy doesn't think

To paraphrase; better to be thought a silent fool than be a keyboard commando know-it-all and remove all doubt.

Here in Florida, every landscaper can pull a small hedge bush just like that out of the ground that's been planted in the past 6-12 months, by simply grabbing it with one hand at the base and slowly pulling with literally about 3 pounds of force. They entire rootball comes out with the dirt all intact, just like you pulled it out of the pot it came in before you planted it. It's so simple and easy, a 4 year old would have enough strength to do it. You would be damaging it trying to dig it out.

I'm not a commando know it all, there are a ton of different threads I read to learn or I find them interesting, but aren't knowledgeable about and do not comment in or care to comment in. What works in one part of the country may not work in another part of the country. If you do a search of my posts, aside from the ones in the gun sections, there really are only 3 subjects I do comment on: ships/boats (my profession), cars (my previous profession), and house related type stuff (also a smaller part of my profession)

"You have even a clue as to how many people have been killed because of advice based on the two highlighted portions of your last?" LS1GTO

AND, next time someone gets killed from pulling their 2' tall hedge bush out of the ground. PLEASE let me know. IS greenpeace going to come after me or something?

A few of you guys are REALLY good at dog piling and taking someone else's thread and ruining it with nonsense like 5 year olds, without having any knowledge or adding any knowledge whatsoever to the OP's question.