Calling gardeners - butterfly bush

[ellerie]

Be sure to tell them to transplant asap and give it plenty of water. (That's been a huge problem in the northeast this year!)

[Cataboo]

Do you know for sure they want them? I just ripped 4 of them out of my garden today (it's been seeding) and hacked my bush back in half. Again. I cut the bush in half 2-3 times a year. It's still 2 stories tall, but I try not to let it take over the entire corner of the yard.

I vaguely hate the bush but it makes it so that I can't see the neighbors when they're out on their deck and it'd take too long to grow another privacy screen.

[Catrin]

Yes, they do. She is going to come over this week and take both of them and seems pretty confident that she can get it through the transplant shock. I love the bushes myself, one of the few things I will miss about this apartment. I had a nice little butterfly/hummingbird garden.

[tulip]

Those bushes are six years old. I'd be inclined to leave them there and buy a new one for your trainer. They grow fast, and it would be a shame to move them if they are happy and healthy in their current location.

[Catrin]

Those bushes are six years old. I'd be inclined to leave them there and buy a new one for your trainer. They grow fast, and it would be a shame to move them if they are happy and healthy in their current location.

The problem is that I am moving this month - and the complex will remove them. So they are going either way and I would prefer to give them a chance to live somewhere else rather than to wind up on the rubbish heap... sad...