Starting New

If you follow this blog you probably noticed the long absence.  Well we've moved!  So I have been very busy starting an all new Cheesehead Garden.
First, let's rewind to the selling process.  So many people people tried to tell me that I would not be able to take any of my plants with me.  It's simply not true, at least here in Wisconsin.  However, you do have to let your sellers know before you even put your house for sale.  I stated that I would be taking 25% of the perennials with me.  In the end my buyer wanted no plants, so I was able to take 100% of my plants with me.
I had to dig up all my plants in April and May when most weren't even up yet.  So as much as I had things labeled, I still have some that were mislabeled and some I have no clue about.  I put them in pots, pails, cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and fabric plant pots.  Basically anything that would hold a plant.  We had a great realtor who let me keep my 600+ plants at their house until we were ready to move.
So we moved at the very end of May.  It took me until a week or two ago to put all my plants in the ground.  I did have a little set back in July when my gallbladder decided it absolutely, positively must come out.  So now I just have to weed and mulch and I'll be done for this year.
It's a work in progress right now, but I am very excited about what it will look like in a few years.

Moving?? Do you take all your plants with you?

 Today could be the day!  It could be the day we decide wether or not to put our house on the market.  Honestly, I have outgrown (no pun intended) my yard.  My husband and I have been casually looking, mostly on the computer, at houses with bigger yards.  We kept saying we were only trying to get ideas of what was out there, but things are starting to look more real now.  We stopped at an open house on Sunday and really liked the house and yard.  So tonight we have the realtor coming out to give us the market value on our house.  If it's in the right price range, the house is going on the market.  If it's too low in the current market, we will stay here for another year or two.

So what happens if we put the house on the market??  I have spent the last 9 years collecting hostas, and have over 400 different varieties in my yard.  There are some that are irreplaceable, and I already know those are going with me.  Do you think it would depend on the buyer, or should I stipulate right away that many of the plants are coming with me?  I could obviously divide and leave parts of most of the hostas with the house.  Perhaps the realtors will have more answers for me.  I just know that I have invested a lot of time and money in my plants, and I don't really want to start over completely.