gardeners

[bONES]

check out this pic my sister-in-law just sent me.

that's my brother in his back yard in Cobble Hill, BC

I have a couple banana trees in my backyard this summer, but nothing like his!

dang

[bradm]

Are you sure that it's not an average-sized plant and your brother has shrunk to about 5" tall?

Does he grow anything else?

Aloha,

Brad

[Kaidy Mae]

Wow, what a beautiful tree!!! I love it.

Cowboy, what happened with your trees? Will they survive the winter? I'd be into growing some of these babies.

[bONES]

Wow, what a beautiful tree!!! I love it.

Cowboy, what happened with your trees? Will they survive the winter? I'd be into growing some of these babies.

i have 2 different musa (banana) varieties

a musa basjoo which has inedible fruits but is the hardiest banana of them all. (zone 5)

musa basjoo

those are what you see behind my bro

and the other is a dwarf cavendish (zone 8)

i may or may not bring the cavendish inside for the winter

the basjoo is definately staying in the ground

i'll wrap the trunk with insulation and then burlap and mulch heavily with leaves and straw.

my basjoo is roughly 7' tall and the cavendish is over 3 feet tall.

this is a great banana forum

i'm tropicalEye

cheers

[Kaidy Mae]

Thanks Cowboy! That's awesome.

I'm going to look into getting a musa basjoo, if it's not already too late.