Washies Will Grow Anywhere

[Xerarch]

If Washingtonias aren’t sprouting up in every conceivable place, and plus some inconceivable places. You must not live in a palm friendly climate. Here are couple gems.

This one growing up high on the side of a building in a drainage gutter 

 

This one growing inside the stump of a cut down tree. 

[Darold Petty]

I attended an IPS Biennial in Los Angeles, CA many years ago. One of the attendees was from the far north of England where he struggled to grow W. robusta as a houseplant.  He was speechless to see it sprouting in the concrete cracks on the 405 freeway !  

[Mazat]

2 hours ago, Xerarch said:

If Washingtonias aren’t sprouting up in every conceivable place, and plus some inconceivable places. You must not live in a palm friendly climate. Here are couple gems.

This one growing up high on the side of a building in a drainage gutter 

 

This one growing inside the stump of a cut down tree. 

but that's exciting and looks funny somehow.
i've never seen anything like it. a friend here once had a very young trachycarpus fortunei hanging in a wooden basket on a rope on a balcony. i just said to him, are you sure it'll hold and that's my opinion.
well, he had then planted it in a larger pot on the ground and no longer hanging ...

[TropicsEnjoyer]

A thread for palms growing in unconventional places would be pretty interesting. I remember seeing a royal growing out of an oak tree one time, I always wonder how palms like that end up later on if they even survive.