squashed queen palm

[philinsydney]

squashed queen palm

[SeanK]

Espalier?

[Jonathan]

They shouldn't have built that so close to the palm!

[happypalms]

Well that was a bright idea someone had 25 years ago planting it so close to the building. 

[philinsydney]

Someone on Facebook said the palm must be older than the building, or the palm would have grown away from it.

[Jim in Los Altos]

31 minutes ago, philinsydney said:

Someone on Facebook said the palm must be older than the building, or the palm would have grown away from it.

From the looks of that building, it’s WAY WAY older than the Queen palm that is about twenty years old. That building certainly wasn’t built in 2006 or later. I’ve seen many cases of palms “hugging” the walls they are right next to.  

[idontknowhatnametuse]

My Acrocomia is growing like that too but in a few years my neighbors definitely will hate the spiny fronds on their side.

[TropicsEnjoyer]

On 4/18/2026 at 6:52 PM, idontknowhatnametuse said:

My Acrocomia is growing like that too but in a few years my neighbors definitely will hate the spiny fronds on their side.

hope your neighbors like you. Crazy story unrelated to palms but maybe like 10 years ago my grandmas neighbor got annoyed about leaves falling into his pool from the wind and tried dumping herbicide over the fence when nobody was around to try to kill a huge ficus tree. Of course it didn’t work but it was concerning behavior.

[idontknowhatnametuse]

3 hours ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

hope your neighbors like you. Crazy story unrelated to palms but maybe like 10 years ago my grandmas neighbor got annoyed about leaves falling into his pool from the wind and tried dumping herbicide over the fence when nobody was around to try to kill a huge ficus tree. Of course it didn’t work but it was concerning behavior.

They will have to cope with it because in 2016 they destroyed my house's wall without our permission and put their natural gas and water pipes in there. And they even got mad about us showing them that that sidewalk and wall was part of our house, they never removed them. I would gladly plant a second Acrocomia.

[Jonathan]

23 hours ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

They will have to cope with it because in 2016 they destroyed my house's wall without our permission and put their natural gas and water pipes in there. And they even got mad about us showing them that that sidewalk and wall was part of our house, they never removed them. I would gladly plant a second Acrocomia.

Maybe a hedge of Calamus australis...they sound like pretty obnoxious neighbours!