How hard will it be to move these bushes?

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Keeper of The Spirits
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They are good size, probably 6-7 feet tall. There are four of them side by side.


ftworthag02
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as a owner of a landscape company, it is more cost effective to replace those red tips w/ a different 15-30 gal shrub such as Nellie R Stevens Holly, Foster Holly, Yaupon Holly, various Junipers, etc. Phontinias are highly susceptible to entomosporum leaf spot
Keeper of The Spirits
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I didn't even know what kind of plants they were. They were there when we moved in. I don't really need them but hate to see them go to waste. I would like to move them to the other side of the house.
TSUAggie
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I agree with ftworthag, photinias are a poor choice for a shrub. Just get rid of it and install a much more attractive and healthy plant.
AgDrumma07
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Oh...you want to save them? Can't help you.
Keeper of The Spirits
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So it sounds like I can try to transplant them, and if they die, no big loss they were probably going to die anyways.

Any recommendations on the transplant?
capn-mac
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You get a pick-mattox and a couple of shovels (spade and sharpshooter) and you trench around each of these, and dig down two feet.
Then, dig down another foot, since the tape measure will show you are only about 14" down.

You then cut in under plant to make a "root ball" of sorts. You will need a stout wagon or garden trailer to move these around. You may need to rig a jack-pole and block-and-tackle to heave them up, too.

Once on the other side of the house, you need a hole twice as big as the root ball, and half again as deep. Add in appropriate soil amendments, put the plant in--it needs to have the root knot level with the surrounding soil--then rotate the best side out, and backfill. Make sure to make a "well" to hold water with the backfill.

Just be glad these are not wax-leaf ligustrum well dug into Dallas-area Austin Chalk (if you want to ask "how do I know?" you can, but, we'll need some St Arnold Spring Bock handy).
B-1 83
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Photinias are cheap. You can small ones and they will catch the shocked, tansplanted ones. Just remember: Inside every red-tip photinia bush is a red-tip photinia tree crying to get out.

I've always been of the opionion that red-tips get the leaf spot as a result weakening due to poor fertility - namely iron. I always used an iron chelate product on mine in Uvalde and had no problems, while some neighbors were eaten up with disease problems and chlorotic plants.
ftworthag02
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