First up is something I actually started last year in early September. I dug a juniper .
The juniper was growing at my local shopping centre and I noticed that they were removing a section of plantings that were looking a bit old and tired ‘yay’ . I went to the management at the beginning of winter and asked if I could remove the juniper in spring . They were happy for that , I think it saved them the work and they were only going to take it to the tip .
This tree had been bashed by cars parking against it since 1986 so it has developed an interesting trunk .
So it ended up being quite a dig , it took me about 4 hours and luckily for me I managed to rope in a passer-by to help me lift into the back of the ute . The main trunk (which I don’t have photo of yet ) was bigger than I expected and was buried under years of debris mixed with river rocks that had been used as a mulch .
So the after care which is the most interesting part, has been putting it into a glass house and
basically sweating it . I have a mister set up in this small glass house with no ventilation and while the glasshouse is mostly shaded by a deciduous tree the temps inside have been very high sometimes in the 40 ‘s . I had to make up a grow box and this has had sheets of plastic covering the pumice to stop any water getting into it . It’s been watered twice since I dug it in September the only other moisture getting into the box would be trickling down the trunk from the misters .
I ended up bare rooting it because it had a lot of clay mixed with large pebbles and removed a couple of roots as big as my arm but I didn’t touch the top . It’s been pushing growth which is a good sign . Now it just has to survive winter and when it does
in the spring I will have to pull down some of the glass house to get it out . At the time I put it in I had to do the planting work inside the glasshouse because I physically couldn’t lift up the tree and the box by myself 
your nuts but if it was me I would have dug it as well 
it's pretty unique and different. Never seen anything like it. Look forward to seeing it progress. 
