wow pretty ambitious for zone 5. good luck,fellow zone pusher

Hi Steve;

You are going to have to cover and probably insulate the palm in the winter. If you have vinyl, concrete stucco or brick siding, you will have to insulate between the house and palm as the cold will migrate. 6" is probably not enough space. If your siding needs to be sealed, stained, painted etc. you will need the palm farther from the wall than 6" to protect it from damage.

I would suggest that you insulate the soil, down 1 to 2 feet below the surface, around the base of the palm with 1" or thicker styrofoam to keep the soil from freezing.

If you have it fully covered and insulated (including 3 layers m/l of 6 mil clear plastic on the sunny side), you probably won't need to heat it.

Allen

Nucci60 ~ I'm hoping in the right spot, With enough sun, With a hardier than average specimen, etc,etc,---Here's to hoping at least 😆

Allen ~ Thanks for all the info, Insulating the ground around it sounds like a great idea and should help get it through with no additional heat.. Now that I have a plan, it is just the waiting.......... 8)

~ Steve

Steve I would divide them first. I still doubt they will survive in your zone but...

Think I'll let nature divide this one up for me..........
These and Pygmy Dates seem to take me hours to untangle and then at least 6 months sulking afterwards.

This one is growing so well I'm almost afraid to take it out of it's container 😆

~ Steve

Very easy & takes 10 mins or less... Slide it out of the container, spray all the soil away with a garden hose and gently grab the base of each plant a tug them apart. I have done it many times with Livistona. Haven't lost any yet...

Maybe worth a try, The other times I've attempted this has been late in the season which probably didn't help.

~ Steve

The get very fat trunks before they start to gain any height at all. They are veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy slow growers. I will try to remember to take a pic of the Livistona's out in front of the local hardware store this week end. They have been in the ground for 12 years now.

Does anyone know how, or what's become of the Livistona chinensis palms planted at the enterance to a condominum complex in the False Creek area of Vancouver BC? They had at last report nearly outgrown they're environment and where being considered for relocating. This story goes back some years now, perhaps 6 or 8 years ago and where originally planted by Gerard Pury in the late 1980's sometime.

Cheers, Barrie.