In article , Natalie
writes

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


We had 2 of them and found, a) they were not all that attractive 'in a
border', and b) they blew over very easily so got rid of them both. A
friend down the road has one and that is leaning all over the place.
(Laying flat this morning I expect with this wind)

Mike
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O ruddier than the cherry, O sweeter than the berry,
O nymph more bright, than moonshine night,
like kidlings blithe and merry.
John Gay 1685 - 1732