Life still is strange

So I'm carrying a box from my office out to the car this morning and as I'm walking across the parking lot I glance over into the woods.  There's a six-foot palm tree standing there in the woods in Ohio!  OK, when I looked closely, it turned out to be growing in a big pot, but still it's strange to see a palm tree in the woods in Ohio.

I've heard of people abandoning unwanted pets in the woods, but unwanted palm trees?