Again, thanks for all the interesting and helpful comments. My friend does has a lot of room to play around with. She has twelve acres enclosed with deer proof fencing with trails and special vignettes with seating and memorial plantings throughout. She is a very experienced gardener with many years experience and has done quite a bit of research on trees. As mentioned above she has one Chinese pistache and likes it. She wants to play around with silver maples just for fun. Incidentally, she planted some Mexican White Oaks which she got from a special source and she feels they are the 'real thing' and not mixed. The original question remains: CAN ANYONE POINT TO A RELIABLE SOURCE THAT SELLS BARE ROOT CHINESE PISTACHE AND SILVER MAPLE? Or if that's not a possibility then separately. She'd prefer them bare root and shipped together to cut down on costs. She would prefer to have tree nursery recommendations from you all rather than taking a shot in the dark. Many thanks!

FIRST... YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL WATERING THIS YEAR .... insert your finger to the second knuckle and water deeply when the soil at the root level starts to warm or dry ... superficial watering will not do ... and provide a 4 to 6 foot ring of good mulch ... to a depth of about 3 inches.. once it settles... keeping it off the bark ... SECOND ... is it possible that what you are seeing is the tree growing its bark from a juvenile to mature type of bark .. without a picture ... it is hard for me to say ... it would answer that as the trunk matures and swells.. from the bottom up .. that this might be happening... very familiar to me on oaks... so smooth and grey in youth.. moving .. from the ground up into the cragly bark of an older tree ... but you say the thing was thriving... before you moved it anyway ... PLEASE DONT HARM THE THING with too much love.. trying to fix a problem that really isnt there ... and stop scratching the limbs... you did your test.. i know you are anxious.. but too many wounds MIGHT end up worse than just allowing some patience .. you will know.. soon enough.. if it will make it through spring ... good luck ken

pic very far away .. if all there is is some growth from the trunk proper ... then we can probably assume everything above is dead .. but you could give it another month .. if it wont drive you crazy looking at it ... yes .... you can probably retain is back to one trunk ... but im not sure i would want that project out in front of my castle ... in which case.. remove it ... unless of course its a grafted tree.. and whats coming from the trunk is not the same tree ... when all is said and done.. you pruned it.. most likely ... because its too big a tree for its location .. and if thats the fact.. then why bother regrowing a tree that you know is too big for that spot ... with no insult to the root mass .. presumably... it will probably regrow rather quickly .. since it has a root mass sufficient to what is dead ... personally.. i would remove it ... and if you want to replant.. you might be better off with a shrub in the shape of a tree rather than a tree ... its all about future potential... those trees have a proclivity to never stop growing... where a shrub usually does ... relatively speaking ... ken ps: if you decide to plant a new tree ... lawn irrigation is not the proper way to water a new transplant ... https://sites.google.com/site/tnarboretum/Home/planting-a-tree-or-shrub

There are definitely reasons to intervene in a young tree's structure. I'm not at all saying never do anything. Heck, I myself have probably pruned tens or even hundreds of thousands of trees in my time. But in this case-and others like it-it may be helpful to realize the two great factors controlling where and how trees grow; First is phototropism, the tendency for plants to grow towards the light source, which in the great outdoors is, of course, the sun. So, you will see trees along rivers bending way out to grow where there's sunlight. Why don't these trees-trees with actual very "crooked" trunks-fall over? Because of the adjustments they make to gravity. It's unnatural for a tree to not simply grow straight up, so when the first force-phototropism causes them to do so, they have to make adjustments. These adjustments consist of the formation of a different wood type-reaction wood-which for the sake of brevity enables the plant to hold itself up. The second factor you may want to investigate is the way trees grow; If you can, imagine (under the bark) a new tree growing over the "old" tree each growing season, like a kid's toy where one piece nests inside the other. Because of this, new wood layers are under no obligation to retain that squiggle. They will, in time, bury that business deep inside. I'ma leave it there for now or I'll end up writing another book. But hopefully this makes some sense. And best of all for me in this thread-I got to use the word squiggle, repeatedly!