Beginner Gardening: How to take garden with me when I move?, 0 by datdog

datdog wrote:
Leave the plants and give yourself a plant fund from the sale of your home so you can buy new plants. If you do take plants just take those that are rare/expensive/or hard to replace. Leave the common ones behind. This is from someone who has moved a garden three times from state to state, renting one of the largest uhaulsl for plants ALONE and I still ran out of room! I will admit that I have/had a serious emotional attachement to every garden I've planted and had a hell of time saying no to leaving anything behind. WELL- NEXT time it all stays behind! I love my garden but the work involved as well as the expense just isn't worth it anymore. I honestly think it would have been cheaper for me to replace most of the plants then it was to move them all.
Here is my garden today- I've been here going on five years... It pleases me once agian but I know there is always room for change and improvment so in a way I'm looking forward to moving again. I feel a bit liberated saying that it ALL stays next time I move. Even my beloved pots. I'm going to allow myself a allowance and spend every dime of it on garden related items and think about creating something beautiful.



This message was edited Oct 28, 2006 7:33 PM