Shrub is in the way can I sell it?

[skipskip]

We need to move our fence and driveway and this shrub is in the way.

it's about 6 feet tall

APR 179 by skipskip, on Flickr

I hate to saw it up and toss it out.

do people buy these?

Can I expect them to dig it out?

What type of tree is it?

Whenever I go to buy a tree or bush, they want $50 for a stick.

 

[GirlnAgarage]

Cut it up, dig it out. No sense trying to save it.

You should dig it out if you want it to live. No one wants to go do work in your yard for a free bush that probably won't survive a transplant.

Been there, done that (helped neighbor pullout bushes and I replanted them in my yard. They died, the main root was too mangled to survive.)

Ain't worth it. Dig it out and get on with the real project of driveway and fence.

ETA: Yes, new plants & trees at the nursery are expensive. But there comes a point when the plant is too large and established to survive unless dug up professionally with a digger that can scoop out earth and root ball in tact to survive the transplant. You think anyone wants to pay for that? Nope. Too expensive. Easier to go buy an new young plant from the nursery.

 

[kazlx]

Get out the sawzall and let 'er rip.

 

[Zeke]

I see free shrubs, bushes, trees, you name it, on CL. I always thought that was a poor version of Tom Sawyer.

 

[southalabama]

Zeke hit the nail on the head. I see them on cl and wonder if it ever really works. Free firewood-you cut tree and haul.

To the op, try cl but I doubt you'll get any takers. Prob just meth heads. Be easier and quicker to cut and dig it.

 

[Regnar]

Not to mention if they get hurt during the removal. Guess who the lawyers are going after.

Back a truck up to it, wrap a chain around it and drive on with your day.

 

[psychob0b1977]

my father has gotten rid of 5+ bushes and various shrubs on CL... people come and dig them up and take them away for free.

no idea if they survive tho...

 

[upndown]

Had a bunch of Gnarly shrubs at the cabin, neighbor came by with his Backhoe. about an hour later and $50, shrubs gone and 9 new Pine trees planted.

 

[dwm]

Survival depends on getting the roots and replanting fairly quickly. I moved 5 shrubs from my back yard years ago, including two that were larger than the one you have. All survived. Their root systems were broad and shallow. I dug them out, set them on a large mat that I nailed to a 2x4. Dragged the mat with the tractor to their new location that was pre-prepped.

Of course, years later when I moved the fence, the deer had access to them. And proceeded to strip them clean every winter, which killed them in a few years. Palm slap forehead. They did the same to some burning bushes that I really liked.

 

[PugetDude]

Dig it out, haul it to the curb, put a FOR SALE-$25.00 sign on it and the crackheads will steal it overnight.

 

[JMartel]

I ripped out a small tree out of my yard, and my wife put an add on CL saying it was free. Someone took it within an hour.

 

[zkling]

I see free shrubs, bushes, trees, you name it, on CL. I always thought that was a poor version of Tom Sawyer.

This. I always get a good laugh out of the "free firewood, you come cut down dead tree and you can have the wood, must take all and not mess up my property" LOL seriously? Saw one once that stated something about must grind stump down to flush with surrounding ground. Uhm, OK.

If your shrub is healthy you may find someone that wants it, especially if it is a rarer shrub for the area and if it is a flowering type.

 

[nicksnothereman]

People accept "used" trees. Not sure if they'd actually pay money for them though.

It happens with palms here when they get too big for where they planted them...but those are a pita to remove. Your yard is already chewed up so it won't make much of a difference how they dig it out. Not sure the trouble is worth what they'd pay though (5-15 bucks). No one is going to pay 100 bucks for a shrub.

 

[Zeke]

Dig it out, haul it to the curb, put a FOR SALE-$25.00 sign on it and the crackheads will steal it overnight.

I see this type of comment posted often so I guess at least some are serious. Why bait thieves? There is no good reason.

 

[Kevin54]

The shrub looks to be a Taxus. When houses are built, contractors throw a few of these in the ground and call them landscaping. I wish I had a dollar for everyone that I have tore out over the years. When they go in, they are just small things, then over the years, they get larger, larger, and large, to the point that they are too huge to trim unless you're on a step ladder and they end up consuming the front of a house and taking away the aesthetics of the house. The size that it is, you'd be doing a lot of digging to try and remove it to save it. Lob it off, and if you have to dig up the roots, make sure you have your axe sharpened up, you have a good shovel handle, a spud bar, and possibly a demo blade on a sawzall.

And instead of planting anything else like that, plant a nice ornamental tree of some sort. Japanese Maple is a slow grower and adds great color to a landscape. There is also weeping cherry, and beside our house, we have a weeping Crabapple that give a nice umbrella of green after the blooms are done. It's so dense that our cat will get up on top and lay there for a few hours.

 

[rsanter]

Some plants are valuable and can be sold
When I had the house for sale I had a guy affecting to buy a few of the plants ( because I was selling the house anyway) but I told him no because pictures had already been taken.

That does not look like one that would have value enough to sell

Bob

 

[PugetDude]

I see this type of comment posted often so I guess at least some are serious. Why bait thieves? There is no good reason.

Joke, Zeke...why pay dump fees when apparently crackheads will haul it away for free?

 

[Kevin54]

Some plants are valuable and can be sold
When I had the house for sale I had a guy affecting to buy a few of the plants ( because I was selling the house anyway) but I told him no because pictures had already been taken.

That does not look like one that would have value enough to sell

Bob

Yea, but those pl;ants will get you a few years in the pokey.

Just kidding. We had people do the same thing when we were selling out house. We had all sort's of plants and trees that we planted, and they wanted to know if we would sell any. It must happen quite often.

We did find that a lot of the plant places that gets toward the end of the season, you can go and make an offer and usually get everything. One year a local place selling annuals, like petunias and such, and also selling perennials was closing up in two days. This was on a Saturday morning and they were closing Sunday evening. There wasn't any business in the last few days as it was getting to the end of the season, and we drove by the place every day. I made an offer of $300 for everything. She threw up a closed sign, and we ended up with 5 truckloads of annuals and perennials. Our house looked really great by the end of summer.

So for the ones that do look for plants for landscaping, don't hesitate to stop at the smaller mom and pop yearly plant places to make purchases. You can get some real decent deals. Also don't hesitate to buy up veggie plants, even though it seems like it's getting too late to plant them. All that means is that if we have a decent Fall, you will have veggies all the longer.

We have large flowerbeds. Most of ours are about 6' out from the house. We'll plant pepper plants in with the flowers. We'll plant the red, green, yellow Bell peppers, along with Jalapeno peppers and chili peppers. The wife dices and freezes peppers so we have them all winter long. She'll use them in Sloppy Joes, Shredded Beef BBQ, Chili, and a lot of other foods.

 

[BirdRacer]

My mother had some around 40 year old boxwoods lining her driveway that had grown to 7or 8 feet tall. Some landscaping company knocked on her door one day about 4 or 5 years ago and offered $100 each for them. They brought their equipment, dug them up rootball and all, fixed the yard, and took them away. I think she had around 18 of them.

 

[Arps]

I see this type of comment posted often so I guess at least some are serious. Why bait thieves? There is no good reason.

My experience has been that if you put it out for free nobody will take it, but as soon as you assign it a value its gone in minutes.

 

[Hpozzuoli]

I paid about $750 a piece for 2 shrubs a little bigger than the OP's. I might have tried a replant if I found one. I still had to bring home/unload and plant the shrubs I bought.

 

[Falcon67]

Send it to the Knights who say Ni.