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Charlie Pridham[_2_] · 09-05-2012, 02:00 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Janet" wrote in message
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Hugh Newbury wrote:

I'm thinking of getting a new Cytisus battandieri to replace the large
one I have, which looks as if it will expire in the next year or so. I
would put the new one in a spot on its own and leave it to get used to
my climate. Can I then dig it up (carefully) and transplant it into the
proper site in a year or so? Or will it object to that?

It will object, possibly seriously. I would put it in a fairly large,
deep pot, and replant from that.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Seconded, also if you hard prune the original after flowering you may
well
find it has a new lease of life (NB not below the graft!)

Are they grafted? I just noticed the other day that mine has put up a
sucker from underground, very close to the main stem.

Janet

Janet, it depends, they are easy to raise from seed but are then weak rooted
and often short lived so traditionally they were grafted onto Laburnum
rootstocks, such plants are way more expensive to buy but give much better
service. I just did not want to be the cause of ruining a good plant!

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Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk