with my near beach sand .... i HAVE TO remove potting media ... and plant in native soil ... ergo ... i would bare root a potted plant ...

when moving a plant just across the yard.. there would be no reason to bare root ... and here is the important part .... IF I CAN LIFT THE CLUMP ... AND HOIK IT AROUND THE YARD ... without hurting myself.. or my bert.. if i had one.. lol ...

so.. perhaps you are mixing potting info.. with in ground plants ...

ken

btw: dig the new hole first ... approximately ... so you can dig the plant.. and just hurl it into the new hole... when you are to tired to dig the next new hole.. you know its time to not dig another hosta.. lol ...

ps: btw ... with the sand ... its near impossible to dig a ball of soil... it all falls off by itself ... so whether i want to bare root it or not... it kinda does anyway ... except on a huge old clump .. where all the roots hold it there ... this was a problem with moving conifers... and trees ...

Thanks for explaining that Ken.......when I made the post about the June reversion, dhaven commented on “why bare bare root?” ——his explanation made sense. I don’t bare root when moving a plant (Bert doesn’t move them all, lol) but I assume when untangling Leaves that are reverting, most of the time bare root would be necessary to separate the leaves. Is that right?

a simple transplant ... dig new hole.. dig hosta.. throw in new hole.. from as far away as possible ...

micro surgery to remove a sport or reversion ... remove enough soil to see what the heck you are doing.. then throw it in the hole ... but maybe treat the presumably smaller piece with a little more respect.. but not much ... lol ...

ken

Gotcha!!