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Hi all, iv'e just planted my bulbs (daffs, tulips, and other things i dont know the name of) and have now just put my house up for sale.
my question is ,can i dig them up? i know that sounds mean but i spent a fortune and want to take them with me.

I would!  Like a shot! 

thanks for that EJ, my OH thinks im being daft if a little tight. im glad others think alike.
Shall i just get them out now and put them back in the netting? or are they ok where they are until before i go

If your house has just been put up for sale you don't really know when you'll move so I would plant them all up in pots then they can keep growing. You can then enjoy them whereever you are.  Be careful when you dig them up as they will have started to grow roots.

As someone who brought over 300 pots of plants and shrubs from my last house .........I dont think you are mean at all  ;)  ;D

Yes, definitely not nets - they want to grow now, and need moisture.
If you really have a lot, and not many pots, I would go for getting some cheap plastic storage boxes ( the sort you put in the garage or loft) put some compost in and cram them in them. Drainage holes in the bottom of course. At least they'll be easy to transport!

Quote from: jennym on November 16, 2005, 10:55:11
I would go for getting some cheap plastic storage boxes ( the sort you put in the garage or loft) put some compost in and cram them in them.

I'd agree and you can have them very very crammed in so long as you feed them.   The Eden project did some work with just laying bulbs on top of a roof and covering them with compost.  they still flowered really well and carried on doing so without losing all their energy.  Yuo cuold do likewise in a cat tray or similar

Iain

Definitely! though.....

Make sure you do it before contracts are exchanged as there is small print aobut garden contents etc.. you have to be a bit careful about it (though bulbs I am sure you will not have a problem with, as they will not be visibl when people are looking round I guess so what they don't know won't hurt them).

I was an estate agent for a very brief time and got a very irrate buyer on the phone on their moving day once as they arrived at the new house to find the previous owners emptying the back garden into a van pretty much! turned quite ugly in the end!!

If you put them in pots then it is easy for you to take them with you, and if on the really pessimistic side, you have not sold your house by the spring they will make it look good - we sold our house with lots of daffs after it had been on the market for ages.  Sorry, I don't mean to put a damper on things for you but it is a win win situation if you have them in pots ready to take.

Thankyou all for your good ideas, we hope to sell our house very quickly as we've put an offer in on another. At least I'm only moving up the road and i don't have to move lotties. Think pots are the way to go :)

I would also pot them up. I've put hundreds of daffs into my front garden over the years, and also into pots and tubs. I always think that if we're going to sell, we need to put it on the market in March as the front garden is in full bloom at that stage.

If you pot them up into nice tubs (you can get plastic imitation barrels for instance) you can just scatter them around your new house and create an instant effect - and plant more new bulbs in the ground next year when you know where the indigenous ones are! I've a tub of narcissus jetfire which I was going to plant into the garden but never got round to, and it still flowers its head off each spring, placed by the front door.

(I've also got a hanging basket of Tete-a-tetes which has been going for years - you'd have thought that by now they would be exhausted, but they're already coming up for next spring!)

moonbells