June 2008 Weddings
naylon511
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Gardening Question
Disclaimer: I have a brown thumb and don't really enjoy outside house tasks.
With that said, the end of our front walk, like as you come off the sidewalk, has a dead rhododendron (and I only know it's a rhododendron because my Momma told me so). There is one on each side flanking the walkway - one is dead as a doornail and the other alive. I know I can't fix the dead one - so I guess I'm facing digging both up. Is there anything special to do to 'un'plant something. Stop laughing. I'm serious. Do I need to get all the roots? Just dig enough to pull the damn thing out?
Re: Gardening Question
How big is it? If it's not too big, just digging it out should work.
We had a huge one in our back yard when we bought our house. It was 15 feet in diameter. My father, brother and H went after it with a chainsaw and shovels, and an axe may have been used.
My father in the monster with the chainsaw
That whole pick up bed is full of the one plant.
LOL Holy crap, after seeing yours I feel very inadequate. Here is the best picture I have of my puny bushes. You'll see them juuuuust peeking out of the snow drifts by the sidewalk. Lefty is still alive. Righty is dead.
I guess just dig 'em up. PS, like my wild and crazy sea grass in the front? It's now so large that it's touching in the middle and hits Jane in the face every time she walks by. I need to cut that shiit down this year too. That I actually know how to do (you just cut everything off horizontally down near the base) but we never do it and it shows b/c it's taken on a life of it's own. Sigh.
Yeah, just dig it out. Shouldn't be too big of an issue. I had no idea what any of the plants were until somone told me.
The previous owner of our house had no interest in doing any more than lawn mowing, so everything that was planted (by the previous owner's parents since it was their house first) got so overgrown it was ridiculous. We have lilac trees, not bushes. Since the Rhode took up the whole backyard, it had to go.
If you own an axe and trimmers, you pass in my book. I have a tiny little gardening shovel thing and a rake thing. a hoe? Anyway, they are hand-held and they are pink b/c it supported breast cancer research. I threw away the gloves when I was attacked by spiders the last time I did yardwork.
I am POSITIVE I should never give gardening advice.
My BIL who is an hobby landscaper (and amazing) used to take care of everything. Then my sister went and had another kid and now he's too busy, lol.
I double checked with my master gardener (aka my husband). He directed you here in the event that you are wanting to transplant the live bush (i.e. move it):
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/landscape/shrubs/hgic1055.html
I have no advice but this made me laugh.