Hi, I have a really cute 4 year old green smoke bush that sent up a sucker two years ago. The sucker is now about two feet tall and I'd like to cut it away from the mother bush and grow it elsewhere. Can you tell me how to do is safely? Thanks!
It's easy and basic. Carefully excavate and use a pair of loppers or a saw to make a clean cut through the larger roots of the sucker. Extract as much of the rootball and native soil as you can with a shovel. Transplant it into a similar soil and growing condition. Kneed the roots with your fingers as you back fill the soil, to get any air pockets out. Water in when the hole is about half full of soil, then top it up with more soil.
Thanks so much, David! And when is a good time? Now, and before spring growth, or wait until full growth begins in spring?
