The usual advice is to wait until the leaves drop as a sign that it's
dormant, but that can't be far off.

You perhaps just need to be all the more careful that you get up a good
amount of soil with it so that it hardly knows it's moving. My guess is
that the root spread might be considerable though if it's five feet
tall. How long has it been in the ground?

Janet G



It was planted about 2 years ago. As a grafted tree it was 5ft tall when I
first got it. I didn't realise how much the canopy would grow...it is far
too big for the position.

Natalie