I would think that lifting both plants back into place would be worth a try. We had an ice storm in 2014 that uprooted a tall skinny crape myrtle. We tied it to the fence to keep it upright and it has recovered nicely.

Good luck, glad your house is ok! Irma has been quite a storm.

I have done that many times. Do it quickly and don't let the roots burn in the sun. If you can upright them, stake them well and they should be fine.

Give them a good dose of fertilizer to promote new root growth.

Jane

I would prune the Bougainvillea a little and then try to re-root it ASAP. The more green it has the more it will tend to throw down roots. You can do a more severe pruning in a few weeks when you should know if it is going to make it. Needless to say you will need to water it often until it looks like it is taking hold again. If you use fertilizer on it make sure it is a weak organic one or it will tend to burn the roots.

Not so sure about the palm. I would say that if it won't endanger anything if it falls over then go ahead and try to help it out by righting it and staking it.

> Posted by Outdoor_Lady
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> "Is there a way to inexpensively hoist it"

Yesterday I uprighted a downed large mango tree
by using a long nylon rope and my car.

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Tom, how did you fare?

The house and swimming pool enclosure did not incur damage, Four. Thanks for asking.

I didn't lose any trees, but there was a lot of damage to plants. It will take me a while to do all the trimming I need to do as well as pick up more debris. I was fortunate to have help picking up debris right after the storm, so I now have a huge pile of branches on the side of the rode in front of my house.

Thank you for the diagram four. Do you or anyone else out there know if this tree will re-root to the other trunks "above ground" if supported like that, or will it forever be in a weakened state?

For others in a similar situation, I'm posting the *after* pics of up-righting the Bougainvillea. A neighbor offered to help and actually did a far better job than the metal tent stakes and skinny rope I had intended to use. Had I known he would be wrapping rope around the So. Cedar, I would have purchased more plastic, plumbing tubing.

The guy was obviously experienced at this. He dug out a bit of dirt on the uprooted side, set the hose nozzle to "jet," then forced the nozzle into the sand to let the water pressure loosen up the dirt around the roots before we added some manure compost and tamped it down. I'm confident it will survive : ) Now on the boring stuff... more cleanup.