Hey Linda, I'm growing some of them myself--and I read that they don't handle transplanting well....so I started them out in peat pots that way I can just transplant them right in the pot and not disturb the roots and the plant.

How long have you had them planted out in the ground for????? Maybe yours will pull through--keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Laura

if you feel you must transplant them, then take a spoon or small trowel and scoop as much dirt with them as you can, trying not to disturb the roots. kinda like scooping about twice as much dirt as the leaves are big. it can be done, but it is hard...

LOL, I love you cindy your great. I read the "bad bird" string it was hilarious. If I can move Zinnia anyone can move Zinnia and they survived me.

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uh..oh!!!!!! you mean zinnias are the same way?? oh dear!!!!!! well, i agree with cindy.....what ya dont know wont hurt ya! thanks for the input on the mg's......i will try to scoop up as much dirt as possible. they've been in for a about a week now.....they haven't died, but i've noticed no new growth on them.....;-(

Thanks, Linda

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learn from others mistakes....you can't live long enough to make them all yourself

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you mean zinnias are the same way?? oh dear!!!!!!

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No, they aren't. They are obviously the easiest to transplant.
I don't think you CAN kill zinnias!
My comment, " Please don't tell me zinnias are hard to transplant..." was in jest because they are so easy to transplant!

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.....they haven't died, but i've noticed no new growth on them....

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Key words here..."haven't died".
There ya go! They'll start growing soon.

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it is suppose to get down to 32 tonight

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O.K....what's up with THIS???
It's almost MAY! ! ! ! !
"They" are saying down to 30 here tonight.
I'm just about in panic mode right now.
Trying to figure out if my Brugmansias will be O.K. if I cover them good, or if I need to dig them up and bring them in.
Maybe I'll sleep outside curled around the Brugs so my body heat will keep them alive.
(Hot flashes might be good for something after all!)

Cindy

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Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car!

I have planted morning glories every year in window boxes and then transplanted them into the ground. Although I have always known they don’t respond well to being disturbed, I move them every year anyway and they usually wilt for a couple hours but I just keep them nice and wet and they always perk right up and pull through...there hasn't ever been a time when they died!! I find them extremely easy to grow...they always germinate within 2 or 3 days and then are about 4 inches tall the day after they pop out of the soil.... Does this happen to anyone else??? Also, at my old house we had a screen house, however a few years ago we took the screens out and I kept some of the morning glories in the window boxes and placed them in the windows where the screens used to be and wound twine diagonally across all of the windows for them to grow up...so once the plants were mature the windows were covered with gorgeous greens and a variety of colored morning glories!! It really was Be-A-U-tiful!!!