boonefrog
Yamadori
Long time lurker, first time poster, so here goes: I had an opportunity to collect 10 or so Yew and Privet hedges back in August/Sept this past year. At the time it was my first collection so they didn't go too terribly well (i.e., I didn't leave much root ball at all; the dry dirt just kind of fell off and was left with very few feeders). All well and good, so I put them in the ground in my back yard to recover for a couple years and chopped them back fairly heavily commensurate with the amount of feeder roots they lost(leaving 20-30% foliage on yews and next to none on privets). Some of the privets already started to put out new growth within weeks.
Fast forward to today. Everything is still dormant but it's starting to like like we'll be moving out of our house December/January, (a time when it's quite cold here in CT). So I'm wondering if it would be best to:
Fast forward to today. Everything is still dormant but it's starting to like like we'll be moving out of our house December/January, (a time when it's quite cold here in CT). So I'm wondering if it would be best to:
- "Re-collect" them now before they break dormancy, carefully preserving root system, put them in grow boxes, and pamper them to let them get established, grow and hopefully have their roots get used to the gradually chilling temps out of ground by end of fall
- Leave them in, only do minor prunes to make sure energy goes to the right places, and dig them/put them in grow boxes in December/Jan once they're back in dormancy and just hope it's not too much of a shock to the roots.