Patience, my pretty: Good things come to those who wait

You can also take a surprising number of advanced shrubs or trees with you when you move, not just potted ones, but those that have been growing for five to 10 years or even more in your garden. An elderly friend dug up her favourite rose bush, about 60 years old – the bush, not the friend – so she could take it with her to her retirement unit, which had a garden big enough for two chairs, one small table, one giant rose bush, various clematis and other vines over every available fence, and far more potted shrubs than you’d think could possibly fit there. Any spare space between pots was filled with alyssum, primulas and other annuals of the season.