Not only was this a large plant to move, we were also planting it in the second raised bed next to the pond. Fortunately we have a sack barrow which helped get it close, but we still had to lift it up onto the bed.
Next to Bed 2
Mark preparing the planting hole.
The temporary steps.
To get round this we built temporary steps from concrete blocks and scaffold board, this at least made it a three part lift rather than having to heave it up in one go.The next problem was how to get it out of the pot. We decided that we would have to cut the pot apart to get the plant out, a shame as these big pots are useful but it was just too heavy to lift the Yucca out of the pot.
I didn't take any pictures mid-cut but here's the remains of the pot.
I cut the bottom off the pot with a Stanley Knife and as the pot doesn't have vertical sides we were able to lift it into the hole using the pots handles and then slice the side of the pot to get it out of the hole.
Yucca faxoniana in its new home, with Mark back filling the hole round it.
This turned out to be a much simpler job than either of us had expected, so may well adopt this technique again in the future.
