Moving a palm tree

[mnahmnah]

Hi

We are house hunting and are considering buying a house with this palm tree. We love the tree, but it has been planted right in the middle of the garden - not great for kicking a ball about, with DC would be doing!

Can it be moved? We know nothing about gardening! We would love to keep it. Just in a more practical spot.

Thanks for your wisdom!

Sorry - pic!

It would be a huge amount of trouble to move a tree that big and unless you had the resources to do it professionally with eg expensive specialist gardeners it would probably die. To be fair even with that help it would probably die. It looks as though it's at the corner of a patio--would it really be in the middle of the pitch?

Palm tree roots aren't very deep but they do spread out quite wide. You'd probably do a lot of damage across your lawn getting those roots out. I'd say your chances of it living once moved would be low.

Could you see how it goes. If it has to go then you could plant another elsewhere.

Personal taste here, but it stands out like a sore thumb in the garden anyway as it's so unlike the other trees and shrubs.

I think that's a cordyline. Very difficult to dig up even when much smaller and they regrow from any shred of root that's left.
pretty tough though, I'd leave it and let DC use it as a goalpost.

Maybe attach a basketball hoop to it?

Ah. So leave it or remove it great hassle and expense then?

You can see better from this picture that it really is the middle. We want to maximise football playing space by removing the shed and extra paved area. Square it off. We only need enough of the gravel but where the tree is for some garden furniture. We want the rest lawned. And the tree really is in the way.

Ahhh pic!!

@tailinthejam

Wrong sport 😁

If it helps most of the people I know who have one lost it to the frost last winter!

@DIsForDelightful

So it wouldn’t be a massive cruelty to just get rid then?! I would always feel terrible removing a tree!

Definitely not a massive cruelty. Plant another elsewhere and nobody is any the worse off.