The Saga of the Indian Hawthorn

So I recently joined Freecycle, where people give away stuff, and someone was giving away an Indian hawthorn bush. Since I have a lot of yard to landscape and not much money to do it with, a large, free flowering shrub sounded like a great idea. The woman said I could come dig it up. She described it as about four feet tall and five feet wide.

"Can I dig it up by myself?" I asked. She said she would help me, and she thought together we could get it into my Toyota hatchback, maybe with some...