Breaking out!

For some time I have had a rosemary growing in a large pot outside the back door and I know that it has been pot bound for a couple of years. As I have another smaller one in another pot that I want to plant in the garden, I thought I would move the larger one out the front.
I don't have a front garden but there is a triangular area beside the parking spaces in the home zone outside. At Christmas the workmen had to replace the kerb corners which were pointed and breaking and they put some rounded off corner slabs in their place. Of course, they destroyed the plants that were growing on the corner and there has been a bald patch there which looked unsightly so I thought the rosemary could have a new home there because it gets the sun all day and there is plenty of room for it to spread.
As the soil is so heavy I enlisted the help of a young neighbour who helped me by digging the hole. When it was large enough we tried to get the plant out of the pot but it was stuck fast and wouldn't even move a tiny bit. We tried everything and even used a large knife to cut down round the inside of the pot but the plant still refused to budge.
There was nothing for it but to break the pot and a couple of hefty whacks with the spade did the trick. The roots were packed so tightly around the pot that I was surprised it hadn't broken the pot and I think the only thing that stopped it was the thickness of the pot.
Eventuallt the rosemary was planted in it's new home and watered well in. Now it looks as if it has always been there and I hope that it will soon spread it's roots and grow bigger.