It never really occurred to me why people don’t normally move plants. I like house and garden plants as much as the next guy, but I suppose like most people, to me plants are just things that sort of fade into the background. During the many times I have personally had to move in my life, it never occurred to me to take what plants we had along. We simply left them in the flats we were leaving and told our landlords that we had done so.
I was quite moved though when on a move I had chosen to ride “shotgun” on, I saw as rather nice elderly woman saying almost tearful goodbyes the plants she was leaving behind. I then thought to ask her why she wasn’t taking her plants along, she responded that she didn’t think they’d be allowed. I asked her if she meant they were not allowed in the apartment she was relocating to. She responded that she didn’t think movers moved plants. When I asked her why she thought that, she sort of took a while to respond, but she finally said that they were too fragile and bulky. I simply smiled and told her that for local moves, there were no issues with moving reasonably sized plants, which her's were.
If you feel any sort of attachment to any of your houseplants, or if you just think that movers simply don’t move houseplants, think again. Plants actually move better than a lot of items that are regularly moved, remember that these are living organisms capable of regenerating when they are damaged, and they are adapted to life exposed to the elements. Your plants are tougher and easier to move than you think.
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