"Martin" wrote in
:

This is a serious question, not a "Dig." I noticed that the previous
owners of our current house had removed a couple of plants before
heading off. Something we would never have dreamed of doing. Is this
common practise in England?


That question's down to my poor typing - sorry. We moved INTO this house,
where there was already a big jasmine (when we moved in)

Many creepy things lived in the big jasmine and walked up the walls to the
bathroom window, where they peered in at my husband, who is an
arachnaphobe. The jasmine had to go and has been replaced by a nice wall-
trained fig, which offers much less shelter to crawlies.

We didn't take anything OUT of the beds in the house we left, though I did
take my potted collection of course.

I believe we were told by the estate agent that anything planted in the
ground counted as part of the house for sale unless we specifically stated
otherwise. I don't think the owner of this house knew that though, because
she certainly took all sorts of things, including bulbs and even paving
slabs! (very ugly ones, so I didn't mind at all).

In fact the issue didn't really come up for us, as we were moving to a very
different soil a long way away, via rented accommodation, so moving plants
just wouldn't have been very practical, even if legal.

Victoria