Question

Looking for advice - if you spend loads of money doing up your garden with plants, decking, planters, pallet creations, etc, do you just leave them there if you move or do you take it/some with you? I imagine the work you'd have done would help the valuation of your home but also all that time, effort and money would then need to be replicated in your new home. What do people do/what have you guys done?  

Answer 1

I’d take everything I could take with me.  

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@factfinding thank you x

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Anything that isn’t easily removable I would leave behind. I moved to a house years ago and the people before me even took the patio slabs and light bulbs with them  I wouldn’t do that  

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@factfinding oh wow haha, that was nice of them! X

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@factfinding when I was young we moved house and the previous owner had removed all the door handles. ‍♀️

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@schweinfurt omg that’s hilarious  I thought lights bulbs was bad enough

Answer 2

If in pots I’d take them pallet creations I’d also take unless difficult to dismantle x

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@round709 thank you x

Answer 3

It’s classed as fittings and fixtures so if you are selling you would pop a price next to anything like summer houses / garden furniture but decking would be included in the asking price x

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@adios5651 thank you x

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@standley no worries That’s just how it worked for us when we were buying and selling x

Answer 4

I use pots so if I moved I can take them with me. The only thing I have is a clematis which is on the wall and would have to leave.  

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@garcia17 thank you x

Answer 5

I would leave anything except movable furniture and pots as when they buy they buy into the lifestyle so taking plants up etc would be very weird

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@retinue thank you x

Answer 6

I’d take it all too x

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@nihon647 thank you x

Answer 7

You need to be clear with any buyers what you are taking, that includes anything planted in the garden. If your not specific and take a plant that they thought was included it can cause all sorts of headaches

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@leery73 thank you x

Answer 8

Decking would stay - same as any patio laid - everything else I’d take. no way I’d be leaving behind my raised veg beds - my 18 ft pine lodge or shed . oh and my bamboos!  

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@miscreance thank you x

Answer 9

I dug up the plants I wanted to take etc and wrote down what was staying. We had to literally list what was staying i. e. 3 shrubs, 1 tree lol

Answer 10

Or take out the things you want to keep before you put it on the market. The buyers will be clear about what they're getting for their money.  

Answer 11

I would leave and start from scratch. New garden new ideas.  

Answer 12

Technically it counts as fixtures and fittings but when we moved we took a clump of bamboo from the back of the plant and the people we bought from took out a tree fern.  

Answer 13

I've taken anything in pots with me, and left anything bolted down or in the ground behind in the past.