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Does everyone else have to move a plant at least 5 times before they are happy?

Or is it just me......................




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Yes yes yes, my hubby (who is not a keen gardener) goes mad at me when I say I am moving a plant. He thinks once in situ it should stay there!!!

11 Oct, 2010

 

LOL.....At LEAST 5 times.

11 Oct, 2010

 

I move my pots on occasion, just to make a change, but I am usually satisfied where I put my pots and plants first time.

I just move pots to make a nice change.

11 Oct, 2010

 

Maybe not five times now, but when I'm planting a client's garden with lots of plants, I often find myself changing my mind halfway through and repositioning things - and then digging up a couple more and positioning them 6 inches back or over... So no, you are most definitely not alone, lol!

11 Oct, 2010

 

LOL. I often shift a plant a couple of inches! They have to be 'right'. :-)))))

11 Oct, 2010

 

Same here, they're quite often shifted about after their initial plunge ;-)
They 'do' have to look right.

11 Oct, 2010

 

Anyway, its only like moving the furniture and ornaments about really, isn't it. I mean if you put a vase of flowers on the table, you might move it a couple of times, or turn it, till it looks right, not to mention moving the sofas, etc., to the best position, you might end up doing that several times.

11 Oct, 2010

 

Yes I very often move my plants around, I like to colour co-ordinate too, so your not the only one, its creative isnt it.

11 Oct, 2010

 

I do too, though perhaps twice or very occasionally three times! :-)

11 Oct, 2010

 

9 times no... once yes

11 Oct, 2010

 

Only 5 times - nah more than that definitely. but then again the sofa has been in more positions than I care to remember and the bed well that's another story. Change is as good as a rest or so they say!!

11 Oct, 2010

 

I usually keep them in their pots, shuffle them around until I think it looks right, walk off and have lunch, come back and shuffle them again--rarely not--go to bed, and look again in the morning, maybe tweak a few, then plant. Kind of like pruning bonsai, that! ; )

12 Oct, 2010

 

Always! And often! I sometimes think the poor things will pack their little roots and take themselves off just to get some peace and quiet. We've been here on our mountain for 4 years now and I'm still struggling with the terrain - very rocky; the weather - very 'full on' of whatever is around at any given moment; the altitude - some plants just sink into their roots and sulk; and the fact that there are very few, and not very good, GCs here, so I have to rely on seeds and the local market. :o(

12 Oct, 2010

 

LOL I'm glad it's not just me.
I always worry that I'm going to finish the poor plants off but so far they've bounced back surprisingly well :-)

I'm obsessed with colour co-ordinating my borders too bullfinch. My husband thinks I'm mad because I was complaining about some of my gladioli (from a 'mixed' packet) being the wrong shade of red for the border I put them in. I'll have to make sure they go in a different border next year :-)

12 Oct, 2010

 

Oh that's me, as well - an Oriental Poppy was wrongly labelled, and flowered coral in the middle of my pinks and mauves - I 'had' to move it, I just couldn't bear it there! I did the deed while it ws in flower, though! LOL. (It seems to have survived, too, which is a little surprising!)

12 Oct, 2010

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