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Last updated 26/3/20 10:28.
Chapters
Shrubs - Care Guide
How to plant/move a shrub
1. Select shrub to move.
2. Carefully prune back shrub to make it easier to move.
3. Pruning helps reduce water loss.
4. The plant has less foliage to maintain after the move.
5. Dig around shrub, with sharp spade to cleanly cut roots.
6. At least a spades width from base of plant.
7. Lift carefully and try to keep lots of soil around roots.
8. Back fill hole left for safety!
9. Carefully transport to new location.
10. Dig and prepare new hole for plant.
11. Water well before planting.
12. Water new hole.
13. Ensure plant is at the same level as it was before.
14. Firm well in.
15. Water again!
16. Finished. Now decide whether it needs protection.
17. Erecting stakes to hold fleece for windbreak.
18. Fixing fleece.
19. Fixing fleece.
20. Staple fix around stakes to hold well in the wind.
21. A well protected shrub.
How to plant/move a shrub - Video Tip
Fertisiling shrubs - Video Tip
Mulching - Video Tip
Pruning a shrub - Video Tip
Summer propagation - Video Tip
Taking semi-ripe cuttings -Video Tip
Self-sown seedlings - Video Tip
