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One thing you can do to help a plant that will be transplanted is to prune the roots a month or 2 before the move. To do that, you just take a shovel and push it straight down to cut a circle around the plant about where you will dig when you move it.

What that does is cause the plant to send out many new roots inside the region that will be moved (inside the circle). These new roots will help support the plant when it is moved.