Occasionally trees grow in places where they can no longer continue to reside. A particularly satisfying job for us is to move a tree that means a great deal to our clients to a new home enabling that tree to continue to thrive and give pleasure. The process takes time and planning and a good deal of grunt not to mention much TLC in terms of the aftercare but is immensely gratifying when successful. Which up to now has been 100%. We don’t use specialist machinery and are therefore limited to the size of trees that we can move, but have been completely successful with every tree we have moved thus far.

Here is an acer that we moved at the tail end of this winter:-

p.s the blue pipes allow water to go directly down to the lower roots encouraging them downwards