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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: transplanting
Message-ID: <1535@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 17:09:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1535
Posted: Wed Jul 31 17:09:11 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 02:31:18 EDT
References: <3108@decwrl.UUCP> <3998@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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Summary: 

In article <3998@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>2. Tiger Lilies.  Hemerocallis has long,
>slender, grass-like leaves coming out of the ground with separate flower
>stalks.  
We had a bunch of these in the back yard when we moved into our house.
We dug most of them up in the fall and separated them (you get many
root-like things intertwined).  Planted a bunch of them in front and
along the sides, and gave a bunch away.  They grow like mad - we had a
virtual hedge of lilies this year.  You have to like orange, though.
>
>5. Great gronking evergreen hedge.  Your big problem is going to be
>getting enough roots out to be able to move it without it keeling
>over and dying.  I would send out for someone with a back-hoe or a
>work crew with shovels.  Don't expect it to be easy.

We had pretty good success by digging around the roots with a shovel (to
about a foot deep), then wrapping a chain around the base of each bush
and pulling it out with a pickup truck.  Our hedge was only about 5 feet
high, though.
-- 
=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
	"You don't get to choose how you're going to die.  Or when.
	 You can only decide how you're going to live." Joan Baez