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DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself Do you know a good gardening DIY plan? Are you in need for some good DIY ideas? This is the forum to discuss all Do It Yourself plans and questions. For example, learn about: The pipe work to support banana bunches, making pots out of newspaper, using plastic cups as pots, tips for building coverings for plants during winter, etc. If you know a good DIY plan, please share it here, and if you need one, please ask away!


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Old 10-02-2009, 06:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Question Transplanting in Florida

Hello all, I am a brand new member, looking for information on (hopefully) transplanting several plants. We live on the Gulf coast of Florida, and are in a house that has several small palms, a large-ish (~7') plumeria, a medium sized palm (sago? not sure) and some other tropical landscape plants that we would like to move away from the walls of the house and into a planting bed in the front yard to create an attractive grouping that would look better and provide privacy, while also cutting down on bugs getting in. I could send/post photos if anyone is willing to help me identify the various plants. I'm wondering if there is a good/bad time to move these plants, how hard it would be to move the palm (~8' high) and the plumeria, and whether some of this would be better left to a professional. Also we would welcome suggestions on managable-sized banana trees, esp those with the little yummy fruit. (Please forgive my banana ignorance... we are new to Florida!) Thanks in advance for any advice!
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Old 10-02-2009, 09:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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You ad a photo in next message & see how it goes... The main thing with transplanting you want to keep as much of the root system as you can.
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Also I suggest to look around your neighborhood or to the more elite neighborhood where some professional landscapers did some marvelous job making the house look more beautiful by using it as the focal point. Make a drawing how it was done in a large piece of paper. Then with plants you have put them in spots where it will do the most good. Just think that your house is a picture frame and decorate them with your plants on hand. Make sure that the windows are showing and only plant short shrubs under the windows and plant the tall ones to hide the corners of your house. Those are the basics. In the future you can add rocks and bricks to complete the landscape.
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One thing you can do to help a plant that will be transplanted is to prune the roots a month or 2 before the move. To do that, you just take a shovel and push it straight down to cut a circle around the plant about where you will dig when you move it.

What that does is cause the plant to send out many new roots inside the region that will be moved (inside the circle). These new roots will help support the plant when it is moved.
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Thanks everyone who has responded... I see there is a "thanks" feature but have yet to discover how to use it, so I'll just do this the old fashioned way for now! I have taken some photos that I will attempt to post in the next few days. Thanks again for the suggestions!
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I see there is a "thanks" feature but have yet to discover how to use it
See the little button at the bottom right of every reply? Looks like

Step 1. Press that.
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Thanks Adrift- I haven't laughed like that in a long time. My wife even came in to see what all the commotion was about.

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