Transplanting Rhododendrons

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 14 (Supplement)

Transplanting Rhododendrons

rE close, matted, fibrous roots of the azalea and rhododendron enables transplanting to be done over a much longer period than with most plants. With care, a good water supply and probably a little shading during bright weather there is actually no close season for planting rhododendrons. Under ordinary garden conditions the best time is April and May; the weather has cooled down, and the soil is moist; the present season it has not followed this programme exactly. Transplanted early in the autumn, the plants will go ahead and will have little or no effect on the moving. Fairly large plants of rhododendrons can be moved, provided there is the means of lifting and transplanting a fairly large ball of soil. So long as the ball of soil has not to be reduced too much, and in consequence too many of the hard-wooded roots bared, the transplanting of these plants becomes reasonably sure.