If the Philadelphus I'd wait until late autumn. The sap has already risen and you will cause more stress to the shrub in moving.

For the opposite reasons you have Gattina. Mines seemed to have survived being constantly flooded last non summer!
I wish yours luck!

Thanks, MG. I shall take your advice and leave it where it is for now. Scottish - a week ago, vast amounts of soil in our sloping garden were washed away by torrential rain and snowmelt - we have bare roots showing everywhere. At least we can shovel some of ours back! I am confidently predicting a superb heatwave a week or so after Easter for the UK (and we'd like one, too, please!). No particular reason, it just seems we need something to raise our hopes and banish the winter blues. Fingers crossed.

It is white here again Gattina though not the heavy covering parts of the country have

I do hope you are right Gattina we are wilting here through lack of sun let alone the plants......
I agree about moving the plant in the autumn, as soon as you get leafdrop. November to march?

Is there no end to it? Luckily, MG, our snowfall APPEARS to have come to an end, and what fell before and yesterday has now melted, but there is unremitting, freezing rain for the foreseeable future. You poor souls. We have been thinking of you all. Since you are still on line, I supposed your power supply has not been interrupted up there in Scotland, thank goodness. We have supplies of firewood, matches, candles, food and drink in hand every winter, just in case we have similar problems, and we've only had to call on them twice so far this year, and not for more than 12 hours at a stretch, but it's not ideal, is it? Even weak sunshine would be cheering. Happy Easter!

There are parts of Scotland that have been without power for days. The farmers in some areas are having to dig the sheep and lambs out of huge snowdrifts and losing a lot of the lambs to the snow and cold. We are getting sunshine here but not enough :-(