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Could anyone tell me why my palm is going to one side.

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Could anyone tell me why my palm is going to one side. Should I dig it out, or should I leave it thanks .?  
Could anyone tell me why my palm is going to one side.

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Carole Baskin pushed it over
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Brilliant  
+35 votes
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Its normal, not all shafts are straight. Some ladies prefer the bend.  
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@dominance58 omg . @toe83 Fisher what a comment
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This is a Cordyline not a palm tree. This can sometimes happen when the plant is trying to find the sun. Cordylines can be cut at the trunk and grow back so you may want to explore that option.  
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Mine goes like that and last year another one started to sprout off the bottom of the base bending the other way like a v
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@airy71 ooooo I have a single and love it when another one sprouts out! I didn’t know this could happen
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@silverplate yes I didn’t think that either but it did will see how big it will grow whether it will match the other one
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Ahh I really hope mine splits  
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I’ll take a picture tomorrow in better light so you can see
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I like it
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I am trying to get rid of the root of one of these. Any ideas please, taking note I'm in my 60s and not very strong anymore x
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@grainy I would not have a clue get someone strong to do it for you . X
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@grainy poison the root and it will die off
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Is it growing toward the majority of the sun?  
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@decant it is yes I am concerned because it's going towards the fence. It will cause damage eventually.  
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Leave it, it makes it extra original!  
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We cut one right back and put a slab over it but it still keeps popping out.  
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@till72 cut it right back before and still back the same way.  
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Leave it it looks tropical
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@rms0 and topical  
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@strumpet yes that too
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It’s going flower by looks of it x
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Should of put stake in to pull it in when it was smaller I’m afraid you going have to get the axe @martimartial lol  don’t get carried away ( the shining ) lol x
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@lieberman39 oh he will do I don't want to loose it. Had it for many years, only one in my garden . x❤
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I believe its the tree flowering?  
+41 votes
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Is there a new 5g lampost beside it
+58 votes
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Lot are like that in the wild.  
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I like it. You could hang a few lights or candles on it
+49 votes
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Could be the prevailing wind as well as towards the sun
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Looking for the sunlight
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Only gets the sunlight till mid day prob that is why .  
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It's a fair sized garden ours is about the same x
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@alnico it's a huge garden hun lol. x
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@haymo it's lovely x
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@alnico we were wanting to get it all done this year. But prob going have to wait till next now . x
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We’ve got 4 ours flowered through the winter
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@tweeny7720 our 4 stick together lol x
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@pipage lovely xx
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Yours Looks better like that, reminds me of the palm trees leaning over in the Maldives
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@steed it does yes but I am a bit worried incase, it falls into next doors garden lol. x
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We wedged a pole to ours . it growing straght up now xx
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Following the sun xx
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It's heading towards sunlight, though looks great.  
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What type of tree is it?  
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@strumpet Mills I don't know had it for years, prob a cordyline been told .  
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Awesome, thank you.  
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A drunk one!  
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Thankyou everyone for your lovely comments x❤
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Bless it :-) I had to giggle x
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I think it’s either trying to escape or it wants to nosey what’s going on next door.  
+93 votes
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Top heavy
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Sorry, but I think the time to ask was at least 10 years ago.  
+63 votes
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It's trying to see into next doors garden. This particular variety is called nosious buggerous.  
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I like them like that mines in a big pot I spin it round now and again I like it hanging over my little bistro table. Mines turned bit yellow though never done it before any ideas?  
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@castra prob pot bound if it's gone yellow, just take it out of the pot whole and place into a larger pot. Try not to disrupt the roots too much when re potting or putting it into the ground  
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Leave it there its unique
+9 votes
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Perhaps your neighbours garden is nicer and it wants to be over there
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Just makes me want a malibu and Coke and I don't even drink  
+48 votes
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It's just tryna see what your neighbors are up to
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Leave it
+43 votes
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It's beautiful
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Will make a great swing in a few years  
+93 votes
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I always thought plants grow this way because they are chasing/searching for the sun so go start to bend in that direction.  
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@enisle Crook that's correct, they do that and I agree I think that's why this is happening with the plant  
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Going towards the sun, all plants do this.  
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U can cut it to the bottom it will regrow then put a support on it to grow the right direction
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It will grow towards the sun?  
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Whats the plant called please xx
+2 votes
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It’s stunning
+28 votes
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You didn’t plant it where it wanted to live  
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You put it right next to house where I presume you get a lot of shade. tress like sun
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Looks like its searching for the sun   
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Its social distancing from you  
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Growing towards sun. Or is it a windy area
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Looks cool like that!  
+21 votes
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I'm blaming a washing line  warn bark and leaning to the fence lol
+61 votes
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Cut it off has you got new growth
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@alienage95849 no way that's taken years to get that tall
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Danny Glenister mine was same but I keep getting new shootsthis was mine
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This popped up last summer
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Searching for the sun
+76 votes
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Wants to see what neighbours are up to
+60 votes
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Wants to see over the fence
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Growing towards light
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The nosey ‘Palmer’  
+55 votes
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Reach for the stars. ‍♀️
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That will be a perfect hammock tree fairly soon :)
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Mine are in huge pots on gravel boards, we constantly turn them and the plaited willow and acers too. They all want the sun. If you don't you get a good side and a side with less growth and they'll bow.  
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Its the sun x
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Climp up it might be some cocunuts up there  
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@zins30 we already ate them lol.  
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It's a cordyline Australis, they are prone to bend towards the sun .  
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Dressing to the left, must be just it’s preference.  
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@martimartial only because his left coconut hangs slightly lower and further back than his right coconut
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@shellfish common problem  
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If u zoom in on mine its shooting from bottom but I quite like it , i cover top half from frosts every year, late october till now
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Its going towards the sun
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Needs staking to pull upright .  
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My cordyline grew massive but then noticed after the winter it had died. Probably because of the position I had put it (in a fenced corner) so hardly got any light and also dried out. I broke the trunk off close to the root. Do you think it has had it now or do you think if watered it would come back to life? Thanks x
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@concordia mine keeps sprouting
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@alienage95849 thank you. Maybe not give up on it yet xx
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@alienage95849 our beautiful tree an it’s baby
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@pipage wow that's massive. Beautiful  
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@concordia it stands all the frost and just keeps growing to the left lol. x
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@pipage where did you get that from it's a beauty . x
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@haymo we’re lucky it was in the garden when we bought the house last year it’s exactly a year since we Moved in we love it and the ones in the back garden I’ve posted both on here I just waiting for it approving x
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It's following the sun, ❣️❣️❣️
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It's wanting more sunlight n was planted in wrong spot. It's trying to escape n go walk about now. I'd cut it down n plant another
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It’s bent
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Iv just ordered one of these for a raised bed can I keep it in pot? ‍♀️ sorry just new to gardening X
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@misread122 Scott id say no. They can reach 20m. We’ve got a couple and they grow quite quick.  
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@im61291 thank you  x
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You’ll have a hell of a job getting that out I had to have people in to do it But I think it looks nice bent over like that put some solar fairy light up around it
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@flop256 I used electric saw cut it down at the bottom and now keep getting new shoots
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@alienage95849/activity" class="qa-user-link">alienage95849 Mine has just got huge and sways so much in the wind bit afraid it will end up in the window. Electric saw and any other tips @alienage95849/activity" class="qa-user-link">alienage95849 please.  
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@dnepropetrovsk684 mine was swaying and I was afraid it would smash my summer house windows so that’s why I did it but I keep getting new shoots I chop them from the bottom but kept one growing from last year
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Lind did not know it would grow that tall, will use electric saw get bushy part at top first and then see where it goes. I wont mind the shoots, just keep them at bay. Suppose would have to get the roots out to stop the shoots.  
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Tarzi time  
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I would 100% bow saw this off
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I cant hubby wants too but, it's been with us for years now I will miss it lol. x
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@haymo It will sprout new limbs.  
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Cut it back and it will sprout at the cut bit within a year! Mine has.  
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Love it .  
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Definitely don’t chop it down. Fairy lights or put a support next to it to try and train it back up straight little by little
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Pays to keep them shorter, the trunk can't support it's own weight.  
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@quintile how do you keep them shorter?  
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What sort of palm is this please?  
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It's a 'peaking' palm  
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Tie a rope on it then u and ya partner can play tarzan n Jane  
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I don't know why but it's kind of comical!  
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Put eyes and a beek on it and it will become an emu
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When it gets bigger you can hang a chair from it
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That is bloody brilliant I luv it  
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