On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:47:16 +0000, ted wrote:

terryc wrote:
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:37:03 +0000, ted wrote:


Just a quick question about Australian natives. I have an area of my
garden that is very over planted with Australian natives is it
possible to replant them in another area or is that a waste of time as
i was told they don't like being moved and rarely survive.

what are they?
how big an area?

If they are in the ground, AFAIK, chances of survival are light, unless
your method is to scoop out a great big ball of dirt with an giant
backhoe scoop.





they are in the ground and the backhoe option is not an option at all.

The problem is when you did them up, you break a lot of the very fine
roots that they rely on. If you want to give it a try, just try to take
the biggest ball of soil that you can. The other problem is that hacking
50-75% of the leaf matter off to reduce stress until roots reconnect can
make them look awful or funny.


I think you are having a lend of me with the P and F thing but
like a dummy i tried it and it didn't work

P & F is for "PAN" newsreader.
P for post, F for follow up.
If you don't have PAN, then I woun't expect it to work either.

ICEDOVE is cntrl+N for New and cntrl+R for reply.

It all depends on your NEWS READER.


abigail