Get Moving If You Want To Move Plants

By Phran Novelli

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - OK, let's move it! Just as fall is the best time of year to plant new trees or shrubs, it's also a great time to move plants, and for the same reasons.

Fall planting gives your plants the advantage of many months of rain and snow ahead, along with three seasons to grow deep roots that will help them survive next summer's heat.

Maybe it's a shrub you put in the wrong place to begin with, so you need to move it to where it will get more sun or shade. Others might be volunteers; plants that popped up from seeds that fell on their own, or perhaps were planted by some squirrels who forgot to come and get all the acorns they'd buried before they grew into oak seedlings.

So, get out your shovel and go see what plants in your yard would be better off somewhere else, so you can dig them out and move them now before the ground freezes hard.