BS: Bush dead!

Subject: BS: Bush dead!
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 18 May 07 - 06:07 PM

Bloody annoying, even if predictable. I wanted to level a piece of ground round by the back door and engaged a pal with a JCB to do the dirty. In the middle was a hawthorn, a scraggy specimen, but a survivor, I thought. I asked him to used the big bucket and get out as big a root ball as he could, and then plonk it down in a hole 20 yards away. That was last autumn, but this spring there's not a sign of any fresh growth, and the bush appears to be on its last legs, with not a hint of green in any extremities.
I know I was taking a gamble lifting an established specimen, but a chap can hope.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush dead!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 May 07 - 06:24 PM

"A chap can hope," indeed.

Well, at least you didn't put the "Obit:" tag in front of your clever thread title!

Subject: RE: BS: Bush dead!
From: GUEST,***oO***
Date: 18 May 07 - 06:38 PM

Bush is our last, best hope against Cheney.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush dead!
From: Peace
Date: 18 May 07 - 10:21 PM

Shit floats.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush dead!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 May 07 - 12:23 AM

Flit Shoats.

Stops Fleas.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush dead!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 May 07 - 04:48 AM

Sorry to hear of the demise of your bush.

It's such a pity, hawthorns are lovely.

There's always a risk when moving established shrubs. I find that the more important the specimen, the more likely it is to keel over and wilt irretrievably. If it were treated as a weed and dumped in a corner to rot, it would be throwing out new branches as we type.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Bush dead!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 May 07 - 01:48 AM

You need to trim off the top bits so that it doesn't lose more water than the smaller root ball can deliver.