Hi Steve,

Welcome home! Believe it or not I was thinking about you a little over a week ago! I collected seed from the Lavatera this year, and when I googled it to be sure I was remembering the right species, guess what popped up! Your site! Was glad to see you were posting more again--and wondering how your Commuting Relationship is going--and, do you have gardens on both ends now?

I really just came to say, hi! Not sure I can help you with your question since I'm not a Shrub Person, but with perennials, they can be planted absolutely any time the soil's not frozen, so I'd be inclined to say that if they're not too big, I don't see why you couldn't move them now. If it were me I'd probably watch the weather and look for a time when you should be getting at least a couple nites that will be above freezing right after you transplant them, but I'm not sure if that would make any difference or not! Hopefully somebody with a little more shrub-sense will show up with some additional/better advice!

Hope all is going well with you, and that we'll see you around here a little more,
Skybird

Steve!

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Steve

Well, hello there Dee and Steve! Nice to see you guys are still here! Yes, Dee, Santia and I are still commuting but we are down to 9 months left of it. Can't wait till my wife finally shacks up with me! We do garden in both places, although it's hard to put a lot of creative energy into two homes, and the California house is a rental, so more effort goes into the Utah house. This is where we'll stay until my little guy grows up, and then we'll move to the west coast somewhere after that.

I'm glad my lavatera posts have helped. I had trouble getting those seeds to start but then winter sowed them last winter and I got a bunch to work.

Anyway, I did not get to my shrub moving yesterday, and now we are blanketed in snow. I'm thinking this will be a project for early spring.

Dee, we are coming to Denver for a conference early next August. We'll have to get together. Finally!