Nick Maclaren muttered:

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niteowl wrote:

I have a very sickly ceanothus that has brown leaves (those that are
left) and is very straggly. It was pruned lightly last year and came
good but having read some of the other posts on this subject I think it
may be just too cold for it here (Aberdeenshire)

Quite likely. I would give it a month or two, to see if it picks
up, and scrap it if not. I got rid of mine on the grounds that it
had got out of hand, but it was in a sun trap in Cambridgeshire.

Magwitch writes
I want to move a 4-year-old one planted in a panic to get *anything* in a
bed trashed by builders because I'm devoting the bed to herbs (physic and
edible). Should I wait until it's flowered or a bit longer and move it in
winter? It's about 1.3 m all round.

I had a small one that had been run over by builders, and eventually
took pity on it, dug it up, pruned the broken branches and also some
roots, and chucked it in a bucket of water around this time of year.
Three days later I planted it more in hope than expectation and now some
5 or 6 years on its a huge low mound about 10ft across, three feet high!
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David