Transplanting big old trees involves more than shovels and a big truck. It requires skill, patience, the right conditions and often thousands of dollars. It’s risky — for the tree and the mover.

Water it all in well. Transplanting is a fairly traumatic experience for a shrub or a tree but if you look after it, it will be absolutely fine.

Jim Gansmiller has had a lifelong interest and appreciation for trees. In 1991, Gansmiller and his wife, Margot, started Arbor Care Tree Sales and Transplanting to spend more time together and ...