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Gardening Project: Transplanting Small Silver Buttonwood Trees – East end of the yard.This week, My husband, Pete, cleared out an area of our back yard that had overgrown shrubs and room for little else.
You can see two small Buttonwood shrubs laying in their approximate spots ready for transplanting. I dug them out from the front yard.
The holes are dug and filled with water to check the drainage.
You can see the size of the hole is twice as wide as the rootball of the shrub. And is only as deep as the rootball.
Once planted in their selected spots, I also moved a medium sized Croton back near the fence to add a little color contrast in the area.
Then I outlined the two Buttonwood plants with some small divisions of Agave to delineate a path to the Croton area.
Each of the Buttonwoods’ branches are clipped halfway to encourage branching, and reduce the amount of stress on the plant from the transplant.
For complete information on the care and maintenance of Buttonwoods please click on the following link:
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/CONEREB.pdfAnd for the information on care and maintenance of the Croton:
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/shrubs/CODVARA.PDFSo now the transplanting is done. We’ll come back for another few snapshots in about 6 months….you’ll be amazed at what you see. With any good luck at all, these two little shrubs will be well on their way to become light shade trees. Hopefully they will look a lot like their twins in another part of the yard. See below:
Thanks for stopping by!
LILMOM
