Transplanting wild shrubs

[BAKPAKR]

How about Eastern Black Walnut? The squirrels apparently didn’t make a big enough dent in the cache I left for them last fall.

 

[kwyeewyk]

I thought lupine is toxic? Though they are very pretty.

Cool thread that I hope to put to use someday! Agreed, Neemo Foto

Never heard anything about toxicity, but everything I read says deer don't like them.

Lupine is similar to larkspur, have alkaloids toxic to livestock and wildlife, but I definitely see lupine that have been browsed by something, probably mostly rodents clipping seeds.

 

[hank4elk]

Some pics of instigation, water, and a bare place around homesite. Site was scraped clear 16 years ago. Not much here before. I always looked for the clump of aspen glassing, which meat water to me. A leaking valve got a patch of sedges growing by big tank. Locust and Mtn Mohagany fill the sunny west side.,aspens in back. I'll take some pics of the elk habitat enhanceement plot(cage) while planting natives. Lots of wire mesh involved to save a base. Native high plain grasses and wildflowers in summer.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Care to share any pics of your non-lawn?
I've got about a 60' x 20' patch of turf at the back of my lot that I've got grand plans to convert to natives but haven't gotten around to it yet. My local commercial nursery stock is poor to say the least. I think when I get going with it I'm going to have to order plugs online which I have had zero experience with.

I’m not at home for another week or so to take pics. I ripped out a 10’x20’ crappy weed infested sod and replaced with flowering plants (still weed infested, but ). It’s a work in progress. But it’s a lot of nursery-grown native cultivars (Achillea, Liatris, Rudbeckia, Gaillardia, salvia, penstemon, phlox), things that came with the house that I moved from other spots in the yard (daylillies that will one day be replaced), natives that have come up as volunteers (prairie rose, showy milkweed), a few drought-tolerant non-natives (Russian sage and some ornamental grasses), and a few anything-that-will-grow-in-that-spot selections (I keep planting different things there until something lives). I let it go wild and self-sow all over, so it looks different every year. I also now have a new crop of baby plants every year to either transplant or give to friends/neighbors.

If you are looking online, High Country Gardens has quite a few native selections and I’ve had good luck ordering from them in the past. Also for work we can often get a surprising variety of native shrubs from the local soil conservation district. Might be worth checking with yours.

 

[Caseknife]

Another good option is heirloom roses, no fuss and too thorny for the critters to consume. These are Harison's Yellow or Yellow Rose of Texas that we transplanted a few years ago. They just keep growing.

 

[Caseknife]

Second, High Country Gardens. Found a native penstemon that is real close to our native Gairdner's, loves where it is growing in a rock retaining wall facing west.

 

[Aperventure]

I’ve tried transplanting dozens of gambel/scrub oak, zero luck. Had to buy from nursery @$100/ea. then spemt $5.20 to kids @$0.05/ acorn picked and planted. Time will tell

 

[Aperventure]

I found this a very good resource to answer the water sun drainage soil type questions

Plants at the Garden

Located in West Jordan, Utah the Conservation Garden Park showcases waterwise landscaping examples as well as interactive educational exhibits on how to achieve a waterwise landscape.

conservationgardenpark.org

Will send pics later

 

[Kaitum]

Someone asked for pictures. Pollinators along the walkway: penstemon (variety unknown), beebalm, autumn sage (Salvia spp.), dianthus, chocolate flowers, another autumn sage, Echinacea, butterfly milkweed, and another type of salvia. It's about the only greenery I have right now and the rabbits have been hard at it. And so has my .22.

 

[hank4elk]

Plant acorns in gallon pots. Oaks are tough to transplant.

When digging a hole for plant in native hard soils, cut notches in the walls for roots to find a crack. Squared off whole.

If possible cut a ring shovel deep around your plant/tree your after. Leave it a week, go back and dig it up. Roots will have healed and sprouting near ends.

 

[Ben Long]

great thread

 

[Kaitum]

If possible cut a ring shovel deep around your plant/tree your after. Leave it a week, go back and dig it up. Roots will have healed and sprouting near ends.

I hadn't considered that but it's a great idea if you're able to make a return visit.

 

[Caseknife]

Flag the plants in the summer when blooming and then you dig the correct plant in the fall to transplant.

 

[Aperventure]

Plant acorns in gallon pots. Oaks are tough to transplant.

When digging a hole for plant in native hard soils, cut notches in the walls for roots to find a crack. Squared off whole.

If possible cut a ring shovel deep around your plant/tree your after. Leave it a week, go back and dig it up. Roots will have healed and sprouting near ends.

Good ideas & actions, thank you!

 

[Akcabin]

My Mom told me that her Dad, my Grandfather that when you transplant a tree to flag or mark north or a direction. And replant it in the same orientation

 

[Salmonchaser]

Time is your friend. 30 years ago this was an open hay pasture, nothing but grass with the exception of the cottonwood back by the daughter’s green house. I’m having to thin out a couple of pines every year to keep the ponderosa going. I target damaged trees, snow breaks or suppressed trees. The pines are now 50 to 60 feet tall. We’re a quarter mile off the county road but I had to build the fence so sweet pea couldn’t see the cars go by when she was in the living room. I had started clearing out the dead wood, mostly Hawthorne in the riparian area. Amazing how much dead material was in there. Been at that project for three years but at least the area near the house is mostly green and living. (Trying to manage privacy screening and fire management). We’ve also started working around the house, east side left to do, get the flammable material a little further out.
Good luck.

 

[Dsnow9]

Keep the roots moist and dig bigger than you think. You can bare root transplant stuff to save on weight but it takes a lot of care and time. Some wet burlap or rags wrapped around the roots, cool day, and out of the elements on transfer.

Speaking of transplants. One of my employees forgot to put the shade tarp on an Aspen for the drive down I70 and wind burned part of the tree. I was hoping it would recover but it didn’t look great. I removed it bare root and put in a new one and am going to try and save it. I don’t have high hopes but better than just throwing it away.

 

[Caseknife]

Native Oregon Grape loves its new location in amongst the rocks.
High Country Gardens penstemon doing good, past its bloom, lovely pink.
Rosa rugosa likes the heat from the west facing concrete wall.
Kinnikinik draping over the wall above the Rosa rugosa.
Native potentilla on its second transplant, bigger than the shrubs still in the wild.
Transplanted rose from an old non-existent homestead, likely Yellow Rose of Texas.

 

[hank4elk]

I stuck a aspen in a trash bag that SCE had dug up @ Huntington lake. Ripped a bunch of newspapers and soaked then drove 4 hrs home. Planted it the next day and it made it by the creek. 12 ft with few roots left on it.
Planted a redwood burl chunk in that creekbed and it grew into a little grove.

Disclaimer, everything grew on the Central Coast.

 

[Dakota79]

Has anybody had luck transplanting Yucca from pastures to the yard?

A guy was telling me he took some small branches off of Cottonwood trees and stuck them in a bucket of dirt and then later put them in the ground and they are doing great. Is this possible?