'Cirdan',
Your site deals with the planting of a container grown tree, which is
ideal when you have removed your holly to the new planting area, but it
does not assist you in uprooting a happily growing tree.
Your problem is getting the holly to the new site and at the same time
giving it the maximum chance of survival.
Ideally you should prune the foliage of the tree quite hard to
compensate for the loss of moisture which root disturbance will entail.
Sever its roots to the depth of a spade in a circle at least 1' from the
trunk of the tree and at the same time lever the spade underneath the
trunk so that all its roots are severed.
Your main problem now is getting the very heavy rootball to the new
planting site. I suggest that you foster good relations with three or
four able bodied persons who can lift the rootball, undisturbed, onto a
plastic sheet and then carefully drag it to the new site.
When planted keep it well watered, shade it from direct sunlight, and
also moisten its foliage as often as is practical until it is
established in its new surroundings.
You can quite easily spray very fine vapour onto the newly planted tree
by training the nozzle of a hosepipe onto it from a stepladder and this
will tend to replace most of the moisture which it has lost. This can be
likened to a dripfeed which someone has when a limb has been lost.
I wish you well.
Regards,
EmrysDavies.
"Círdan Falassion" wrote in message
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Evening,
After a few years of living at my current address I am about 3/4 way
through landscaping the garden (it was all humps/bumps as it was built
on
natural mountain that has never been worked).
The main sticking point is an 8' Holly tree which just HAS to be
moved.
I've done some research on this and am aware that the likelyhood is
that it
will die if moved, however it has to be done and I would therefore
like to
give it as much chance of survival as possible (however small that may
be!)
This link http://tinyurl.com/2pnd6 gives a guide to planting a new
tree,
but I was wondering if that is good advice in general or should I be
looking to do something different with this Holly?
Thanks
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