The best way to be sure you get the same as the parent is to take a cutting or a graft. If you grow from seed you wont know what you will get unless it is a true species.

In the fall tends to be the best time to transplant firebush [Hamelia patens], and indeed just about any plant. Specifically, a popular autumnal month tends to be October. The reason lies in getting the plant adjusted to the new location before the cold weather sets in. By the time the cold weather is over, the plant feels at home in the new location and is ready to bloom on old wood or put out new growth.

It is best to move (more properly, "transplant") any type of tree or shrub when it is still dormant, but a bit before it will begin new growth in the spring. Here in south Louisiana, that is late January to early February.

I've heard that it's best to do in fall, and water lots.

by putting old would on the stump and burn it

It depends how big he is. Usually he can cut off any part of your bushes overhanging his property back to the boundary. He sould offer you the trimmings back. UK law.

Mulching, removing, spraying, and using landscape fabric or mulch are ways to kill weeds without killing the myrtle among which the weeds are growing. Removal can be done -- but carefully so as not to damage or destroy the woody plant's body parts -- by hand, hoe, rake, or shovel. Spraying must involve a non-residual, specific, target herbicide so as not to adversely affect the Myrtus genus member in question.

If you are trying to get the vines to spread, trim the areas you do not want them go, as often as you see fit. The untrimmed "runners" will continue to grow towards the early sun if possible. Actually moving the "runners" by hand, and guiding them in the direction you want them to travel, will help alot. Honeysuckle is a VERY hearty plant. You really have to go out of your way to kill it. P.S. If you do not like bees "hovering" around, please go out of your way and transplant or terminate the plant.

Have some burning bushes dying while others are doing great. Why?

Your area is great for the azalea. I would make sure that you have a moist environment for them in a shaded area and I would recomend that you use a Mushroom compost soil to plant them in. Make sure that you mix the soils well and fertilize with Holly Tone. Azaleas love acidic conditions.

I would start by using cayenne pepper in the beds and use plenty of it. If this doesnt work I would try and find some Crimson barberry shrubs and place them in the bed.

I have just spent the morning at the garden center looking at ninebark trees. The average looks to be 10-15 feet tall 6-8 feet wide

A woody plant that grows healthily within the confinements of a container is what a container-grown shrub is. A shrub may look as thick and wide as a bush or as branch- and trunk-defined as a small tree. Either way, some realize their life cycles in bare ground whereas others will tolerate the restrictions of such containers as barrels and pots.

A container grown shrub is a shrub grown in a container for all year round sale.

When it is untidy but do not do it after the end of August in cold areas.

Once a year unless pruned.

Clumps can be split in Spring just as growth starts.

These set their buds in the fall, so if you want to have spring flowers, you do any necessary pruning in the spring after they have flowered. They may not be hardy in cold weather, so you need to water them when a freeze is expected to protect the roots and cover the foliage.

The white, foamy stuff on plants is actually caused by spittlebugs. You can use a water hose to wash the bugs off of your plants.

The best time to trim a potentilla, and any other summer-flowering shrub, is in the spring before the potentilla buds out.

When all the leaves have fallen, as the tree becomes less likely to be traumatised by the move.

check the base of the plant to see if rodents are eating the bark. chances are that this symptom is caused by a physical damage to the plant.