It is impossible to say. It might not be dead. It might just be transplant shock. I'll leave it in the shade, keep the soil moist but not sopping wet and just see what happens. It is brutally hot right now, so it might not have the strength to pop up new foliage until the weather cools down some.

Thank you for the help Dawn.

I planned to do just that, keep treating it like it was alive and wait to see. Once it cools down more, I hope I'll see some growth somewhere.

You're welcome, and good luck with it.

If it doesn't make it, then you will have learned a painful lesson---the summertime is the worst time to dig up and move anything. If it does make it, then you can just be happy about that but still remind yourself that moving anything in the middle of the summer here is hard on the plants and do your best to avoid doing that in the future. (It saves you a lot of worrying, fretting and providing plants with intensive care to try to save them.)

For what it is worth, because our summer weather tends to be hot and brutal (and often brutally dry in many parts of the state, including mine), I have a strict policy---I do not dig up and move anything perennial between the end of May and the beginning of September. I don't even plant anything during that same time frame except for annual flowers, herbs and veggies, generally grown from seed myself and still small when transplanted out into the garden---or from seed directly sown in the garden. My tree rule, carefully crafted after many years, is even more strict--I only plant trees between October and February....maybe in earliest March if we're talking about containerized fruit trees in containers of a decent size.

Following these self-imposed rules, which I gradually formulated for myself over several decades of gardening, means that I very rarely have to worry about any trees or perennial plants struggling/dying in the heat of the summertime. I feel like we gardeners already have so many other challenges to contend with in the summer as it is without making it harder on us than it has to be.

If you live in an area that is very rainy in summer (mine is not), then you may get away more with summer planting or moving of plants, but I've learned in my area that it tends to end in plant death and tons of gardener frustration.

Dawn

You're right! I know better but I am moving soon and wanted to "try". Mistake. I probably should have left it and started over, but I was overzealous.

I probably won't make the mistake again. You're SO right about the brutal summers.

I don't get any special credit for mentioning the brutal summers. I'm pretty sure that by the time a native Okie is three years old, he or she already knows that summers here are brutal. (grin)