CAN I LIFT MY MAHONIA?

I would say you'd be pushing your luck, as everything in my garden is burgeoning (good word?) and growing like mad, so really it's the wrong time of year - BUT you might have read that we moved a whole lot of shrubs and perennials at about this time last year when our garden room was built - into a temporary bed and then back into a new border. A Cistus (which I know do NOT like being moved) has positively thrived with this harsh treatment! So why not give it a go? Advice normally given is to dig a trench as far away as the branches reach, then lift the shrub with as much of the rootball intact as possible onto a tarpaulin or sacking and straight into its new hole with profuse water. I can see from its position that this may be difficult, so Good luck - hope it survives and is happy in its new home.