HELP! Garden being dug up!

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  1. PinkFinger

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    I need some advice please. We are having some sewage work in our garden. It happened all so quickly and we have workmen in the garden as I type.

    They need to dig up the plants in the pciture. The rosemary has been there for about 3 years, I m wondering how it will cope with the move. :o

    Is there any 'tecnique' to use when moving plants? It will be probably be uprooted for a day or so, where shall we put it in the meantime?
    The plant to the right (something Japonica ) has only been planted a couple of weeks ago, so I dont think it should be too difficult to dig out.

    Please advice on how to best deal with this situation?
    thanks

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    Dig up with as much root system and soil as poss and stickin a big bucket of water if its only a couple of days. otherwise heel in to another area of garden / plant in pot. Rosemary will grumble a bit for a while but survive and the other plant is, i think, a fatsi japonica;)
     
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      Maybe a bit late now but ideally you should give them a really good soaking prior to digging them up.
       
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        thanks both for your replies. They ended up digging another part of the garden and will do this end next week. I will make sure that is well soaked and stick it in a basket :)
         
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