Does Magnolia stellata Leonard Messel tolerate transplanting well?

The tree in question has been in place for perhaps 5 or 6 years, but it is no more than between 4-5 feet tall and wide. I planted it in a bad spot,where it is too exposed to the broiling south-western sun. Italy has been hit very hard by global warming and climate change,and this summer of 2022 has been atrociously hot and dry,yet Leonard Messel DOES still hang in there, in spite of it's terrible location. It lost all it's leaves (it has done so every summer); I shaded it and began watering it every ten days or so (this in the past month) and it is leafing out again,so I think it deserves a second chance and would like to move it to a spot where the soil is deeper and it would recieve afternoon shade. But I know fom experience that some plants just do not accept being moved very graciously, and by doing so one runs a high risk of the plant just dying. Do magnolias accept transplanting easily, or should I just try to improve the conditions of its' present location?

I have transplanted lots of Magnolia stellata.
Dunno about your specific cultivar... but...

I'd be tempted to just propagate by layering... cover the end of a limb with soil... roots very easily.

Then move the rooted pieces.... this way, I'd have the children in places that I thought they might do better while not endangering the original.

If you are determined to move the original tree... I would wait for the temp to break and the autumn rains to come... and then move the tree.

In my area... probably next month.

Thank you , stone. It's a Leonard Messel magnolia. I will definitely wait for autumn t arrive; here in Tuscany, Italy, that is the time to do planting.

@ stone: when you transplanted those magnolia stellatas, what procedure did you follow? Did you root-prune them a year or so before doing it?

Mostly it's been digging of rooted layered branchs.
Where I did move those plants again... I did nothing special.
Just prepared the ground by digging a nice bed and digging in plenty of compost before going back to the tree that I wanted to move.

Rather than just dig a hole to put the tree into... I always prefer to dig a decent sized bed... where I can plug in nice shade plants too.

In my experience, the larger bed provides plenty of room for the tree to send out roots well away from the tree... means a faster growing, healthier plant.