Max, I feel your pain because I try to zone push myself. I do find the maurelii easy to store. I only leave the lead leaf on stick it in the cellar upright. It still grows a couple of leaves over winter. he problem with living in zone 6 is, you can't even trust putting plants in the garage (at least not in an old garage) for fear of freezing. When I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, I would just shake my head watching palms growing through cracks in the sidewalk with no care.
