Almost 45 years ago my Grandmother gave me a start of a pretty perennial yellow flower. I have moved several times since and each time I take a start of the plant with me. It always makes me happy when it blooms in the Spring because it reminds me of her.
Hi! Love your videos! If your buyer is a single man in his thirties, and doesn’t strike you as the gardening type, do ask to take the greenhouse as well ! Friend of mine did not do this, and heard her buyer was commenting on social media that he was looking at how to get rid of it. Also, we got the offer for our house accepted even though there was another higher offer because we stated that gardening and growing veg was one of the reasons why we were so keen on the house, and that it was clear that the owners had taken great care in setting up the garden and choosing the plants. We got the house though we offered 5K less than the other buyer. The estate agent said he’d never seen anything like it. We’ve now set up a potager in raised beds, but all the fruit trees are in big pots because I’m never leaving them behind!
Good overview of considerations when moving a garden. I too have felt I was betraying my plants and garden memories when moving to a new home. Propagating important plants is a great way to maintain and enhance sentiment. I have plants in my new garden that are descendants of perennial vegetables, fruits, and flowers that go back to gardens from two or three previous moves over a period of 20 years. I still hold memories of those original plants, where they grew, and how they influenced my gardening. I hope you can take as many with you as you have room for.
I can see both aspects of plantings left behind when buying and selling houses. We bought a new country house a little over a year ago, where the previous owner left nearly all of the perennials behind. We really appreciated all the cone flowers, daises, canna lilies, hydrangeas, etc that they nurtured. The house we bought about ten years ago had very neglected creeping junipers across the front of the house and several old cedar trees that hung precariously over the driveway. We removed those and the seller was upset with us. They even told a neighbor that if they knew we were going do that, they may not have sold it to us. In our opinion we improved the overall look of the landscaping. When we sold it about 18 months ago, we left everything intact that we planted, including a banana tree that was hardy to our zone 6b growing zone. It came back every year, and the buyers have left it in place. I still grows at least 10 feet tall every summer.
Congratulations on your new purchase! Wife and I are so happy we are not leaving tbis property in anything but a pine box!🤣 We've been here on our 1 acre of waterfront property for 30+ years! I hope your next home is more of a long term proposition for you and yours! Great video and good information...we own a couple rental houses and my tenants are awesome and do some gardening and I encourage them...to the point I drop off starter plants...tomatoes, etc., in the spring! I need to get more people into gardening! Have a great day and an awesome move and again Congratulations! Mike👍😁🇨🇦
When we moved from the house we lived in for thirty years, I only took a few things in pots etc. I realised later I’d left a special anniversary present Rose and mentioned to a previous neighbour. Unknown to me she went to ask the new owner, who not only refused to let her dig it out for me, even offering to replace with another but was incredibly rude. I was horrified when I found out later as we had left them a lot in the house (curtains/blinds etc) as they were a young family and said they had little budget after buying the house. What really upset me was to hear that a month or so later they had ripped out most of the plants and grassed over and the rest was a mess. 🥲Lesson learned, next time we’ll be taking as much as we possibly can! Good luck with your new garden, so exciting 😀
This is so important. We are retiring to Panama in a few years and fortunately our young adult children are staying here. But leaving my twenty plus year old garden is heartening.
I have moved 13 times. I can pack a house in 2 days and unpack in 2 days. I never, ever, store rubbish. I never keep clothes I don’t wear and the loft is empty. I walk out the door and never look back. I love it. I have always potted up plants I want to keep from the garden before showing people around.
Congrats on your new home! I moved countries during this pandemic, bringing a whole lifetime’s worth of stuff with me and my three little dogs (two still with me, one who has left us I stringed a travel-safe container for h his ashes and got a death and cremation cert, so I could take him with me on the flight rather than risking shipping with my furniture.) It really was a nightmare few months leading up to it! Flights kept being cancelled and I ended up changing airlines and going through Qatar, as European airports were just a mess and actually the airline I went with ended up being much more helpful and kind and the flights were shorter for my dogs. Two weeks before the flights, my destination country changed the requirements needed from people coming from the country I was living in and it ended up that neither myself nor my dogs were required to do quarantine (we sorted out their rabies vaccines well in advance, so that helped ensure my dogs settled well in my new home once we arrived.) We still did the stay-at-home period when we arrived and a Covid test once we were able to leave isolation, just to be responsible. I still never want to move countries again, though!
My gosh, you are a much stronger woman than I am....I couldn't bear to leave all that effort and creativity behind no matter how practical the reasoning and tip suggestions are!! I wish you the best of luck in all your move preparations and will definitely keep following to see what your new world will bring!
I've heard of people not wanting to move because they couldn't bear to give the garden up. I don't feel that way about this garden, but I probably will about the next one :) Thanks very much for your best wishes Rita
Excellent information. We left our last house with the garden as it was. Everything! The buyer complained about us leaving the summerhouse, shed and seats behind. So we had to pay for a company to clear it all. We won't move again as we live in our ideal home now, but if we did the garden would be discussed fully with the buyer.
Actually complained...some people! You're right to be very clear the next time you buy though . It's makes things easier and no one is surprised at the end of the process.
I'm new to your channel and was brought to your channel from the chamomile lotion video. I have a feeling, I'm going to be getting that book! I fell in love with your lil brick bed that housed your Chamomile plants. Sounds like you are going to have some FUN projects with your new house, and I am eager to follow you on that journey, and maybe join in and do a few flower beds here at home inspired by you! Take care, and stay safe!!
we watched you sow this beautiful home garden and i'm sure we ALL can't wait for the new home garden...i received my soap making guide and watched it at least 3 times already...i'm hoping it will give me the courage to make that first batch...take good care and best wishes for your move...
Just bought your soap making e book and the photos are beautiful. I've never made soap before but it will be a good winter project for me to learn how!
@@Lovelygreens Perhaps since the new buyer had said such a reply to you as to your wanting to take the spiral...maybe he would be happy for you to take other things. Perhaps ask if there is anything else he will be removing that you could take from the gardens.
Oh come on!! It should be called, "a woman and man's garden"! Your gardening is fantastic! We all learn from it. From IN, USA. Thanks for sharing! Great video as always! Looking forward to watching your new home garden grow.
Garden’s in my experience are always sentimental. It’s sure hard to leave them behind. Even though you know your going to start a new one. I’m excited to follow you on your new adventure. Congratulations 🎊
Thank you :) I think that as soon as work begins on the new house my mind will be completely focused on that. For the time being, I'm a little sad to be leaving our little garden. It's been a lovely place to grow!
Excellent video Tanya and I don't have the problem of moving the garden if I moved home because I only have an allotment. I have to make sure I don't move too far away from the allotment.
Yes this is the issue that a lot of people have. Very little gardening space at home, and if you're lucky to have an allotment, you feel as if you can't move too far from it. Such a conundrum
When we have moved, there has always been a tick box list of what will be left inside and out, in both the house being sold and the house moved too. Usually done before exchange of contracts.
First off congratulations on the new house. But that was such a dilemma I had when I moved last year as well... will the buyer realize my taking that small tree? Especially since they aren't really plant people... But I think you should grab as many plants/shrubs as humanly possible....you will regret it if you don't.
That's the plan! I'll leave the roses because they're well established where they are, but anything smaller (especially in the herb spiral) I'll be taking with.
Thank you for this video. We’re (hopefully) moving to a bigger piece of land relatively soon and I’ve been wondering about how to take parts of my beloved garden with me.
Hello! I am wondering what the situation is regarding moving plants from UK to Rep of Ireland? Do you happen to know if this would be possible? I am currently renting in UK but will be returning to my home in Ireland in a couple of years and would like to bring some of my treasured plants with me from this garden. They are my own plants that I have put into this garden, although I am happy to leave most, there are a few that I really love and would like to bring with me. Any advice/information would be much appreciated, thank you :)
Last time I was selling a property, there was a form to fill out fairly early in the process, where we listed all fixtures and fittings that were included in the price, and everything that was not, and even prices for anything that was not included but could be if the buyer wanted to buy it (ie curtains). That flat didn’t have a garden but I would imagine the same would apply, to make things clear from the start.
Hi Tanya! It does sounds as though the buyer of your home will have no interest in gardening just by his response to your request. Please don't take it to heart, but my gut tells me that all of your work will be plowed over, leveled off and replaced with grass seed. It sounds to me that anything that will tie him down, other than the weekly grass cutting, is undesirable to him. I am excited for your move and I'm very curious to see what you will create at your new home. However I so loathe the very thought of moving at the same time.
There are plenty of great greenhouse companies, but many of them are regional/national so different from country to country. Maybe ask someone local to you? The one you see in my videos is a vintage model and no longer for sale. I have my eyes on the ones through Griffin Glasshouses though www.griffinglasshouses.com/
Hey there I live on the Isle and I am hopefully starting a vegetable patch next year the people I live with have kindly offered me a patch of the field that they are plowing over. I am relatively new to growing my own food and I would love if you could maybe give me some tips.
Take it away. So I will. lol. Since you are moving to a larger property, I would en-devour to negotiate in verbal transitioning to printed protocol of what can be removed and what can stay. A paper trail is invaluable in legal matters. A garden cannot have enough tools and structure.
