3 Things, You Should Know, About Moving Plants <br />to a New Home.<br />Apartment Therapy asked experts <br />how to keep plants alive when moving.<br />Here are 3 of their tips.<br />1. Limit exposure to extreme temperatures.<br />Avoid exposing your plants to extreme <br />heat or cold, as both take only <br />a short time to damage house plants. .<br />Will Creed, owner of Horticultural Help, <br />suggests that plants are “last on, first off” <br />when moving to keep them safe. .<br />2. Protect your plants.<br />Smaller plants can be wrapped in plastic or bubble wrap for safer transport.<br />For larger house plants, Creed recommends covering the surface of the soil with plastic and securing it with packing tape.<br />This helps keep the soil in place, protecting the roots of the plant and preventing a mess while moving. .<br />3. Do not repot your plants. .<br />Many people believe that repotting plants in plastic will somehow make things easier on moving day. .<br />However, Creed cautions that plants should definitely not be repotted in the time leading up to a move.<br />People have strange reasons for doing that. None of them are valid, Will Creed, owner of Horticultural Help, <br />via Apartment Therapy.<br />Hopefully these tips will help you <br />get your plants to their new home while keeping them , healthy and happy
