Advice on moving your plants: part two or three

 - Outside on moving day. If you have plants to dig up, wrap the root ball in plastic sheeting making sure that the soil is moist. Box up pot less plants with cane supports to stabilise them for the van ride.

 - Pots & Troughs. Most garden pots and troughs are never moved, and therefore any frost damage is not discovered until the removal men pick it up and it falls to bits. This is quite common so you will find that the removal company will not be liable. If you are worried about this empty the contents out to take some of the strain from the pot. The removal men will take great care, but outside pots tend to be covered in moss. Even worse if wet they can be extremely difficult to lift, and there is often a large thorny branch waving about, usually in your ear.

 - Storage. For obvious reasons plants cannot be put into storage, although some of the smaller removal firms, will if for a short period of time store some plants. These will be stored loose so they can be watered and outside plants are often left in an outside compound.