"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
T...
In article ,
says...
With container grown plants I think it makes little difference for a
hardy plant.
It certainly used to be the case that plants were moved/planted while
dormant when they were being lifted rootballed and sold but that was
before I started gardening!
When I did my training in the mid 1950's on a large nursery specialising in
herbaceous plants, the practise was to rootball the plants when lifted
around early April. Delphiniums, sidalceas, asters etc. were packed 12 to a
kipper box. Polyanthus (in flower) were packed 15 to a box, and there were
never any complaints about plants dying. The winter job was always to mend
the returnable kipper boxes!
Phil