Money Moral Dilemma: Should I take my garden plants to my new home?

jussab

Definitely do it!! I know how long it takes to get a garden looking like you want it - not the same as decorating a room - it takes a lot more time and patience.

Besides - who is to say the new owner isnt a garden person and simply slabs the whole garden. If they want a nice garden then up to them to make it their own

Seakay

depends how you sold your property.
Did you say in the specs that the garden would be stripped before you leave?
Or did you allow you Estate Agent to point out the beauty of your mature garden as a selling point?

pennypinchUK

It depends on what was agreed and/or what would reasonably be expected between you and the purchasers. If by digging up plants you make a material change to the garden and you've not mentioned it to the purchasers it would clearly be wrong.

That said, it's certainly done, and particularly if a certain plant has an emotional attachment. But, really, all of them?

Seakay

tallgirld wrote: »

Take the plants and the turf. Also if there is a tree in the garden uproot it. :-)))))

What a hilarious dilemma!! Do people really take plants with them when they move??? Wow I am lost for words :-/

Oh they do! My friend bought a wreck of a cottage with a lovely little garden; it was the best maintained thing in the place and the Estate Agent listed it as a feature and made sure it was admired at every viewing.
When they moved it it looked like a scale model of The Somme - everything had been dug up and the whole thing was a mess.

Legal action is ongoing

Seakay

jussab wrote: »

Definitely do it!! I know how long it takes to get a garden looking like you want it - not the same as decorating a room - it takes a lot more time and patience.

Yes, that's why a property with a well maintained mature garden sells for more than one without.
As the OP has sold their property with a garden then they have to hand over a garden

bris

People look closely at the gardens and take it into consideration when buying a house, I would be livid is some stingy git decided to rip out all the plants.

I put it as low as taking the light bulbs.

After exchange I can't see how it would even be allowed.

sun_claw

As long as your buyer is aware that the plants will be removed, I'd say take them. If there is anything you can't/won't use offer to leave them behind but it is your money and hard work that has grown them

mrs_sparrow

We rented and had been there a while and had plants in the garden, inluding some MASSIVE buddlia plants and twisted willows. When my neighbour (really nasty horrible woman) found out we was going, she came round and asked if she 'could have them'. I said no, we was taking them with us.

I got back from work one day to find she had been in our garden and helped herself to loads of 'cuttings' - she butchered as many plants as she could.

We took them, but they died as the soil was very different here to where we was before and they just would not take for som reason.

Voyager2002

The law is very clear on this: you can take pot plants, but not plants that are rooted directly in the soil.

Obviously you can negotiate with your buyer and come to some arrangement, but by default the plants, trees and shrubs are just as much part of the sale as the staircase and windows.

Rufus20

You can't dig up your plants once you have exchanged. They are considered fixture and fittings! You can only remove plants in pots.

You should dig up any plants you want to take before the estate agent takes photos and before any viewings start! All my nice plants are currently in pots waiting to be planted in the new garden. I bought loads of cheap bedding plants to fill the empty gaps.