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Post by sweetpea on Jul 24, 2012 16:38:50 GMT
Morrison's selling them for a fiver......couldn't resist. Mind you I'll probably lose it when winter comes  Will stick a pic on when I can get round to it. They have both the red leaved and green. |
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Post by Rosie on Jul 24, 2012 18:49:12 GMT
I googled it Sweetpea, it's really nice, but i wouldn't bother having one up here  |
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 24, 2012 21:59:27 GMT
In my Jungle Seeds catalogue from a few years back they were £16.00 upwards. Not really a plant for Aberdeenshire Rosie.
I remember Pam ( esther) had one in her garden.
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 26, 2012 18:12:25 GMT
This is the one, planted out: okay for a fiver I thought  |
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Post by esther on Jul 27, 2012 4:32:48 GMT
That was a real bargain Sweetpea ;D Mine survived the winter in the cuttings greenhouse last winter - have you sunk the pot or planted the Banana?
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Post by grindle on Jul 27, 2012 4:35:37 GMT
that was a bargain SP, I tried to keep one but it didn't survive, I think it got too cold for it
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Post by jrae on Jul 27, 2012 6:47:05 GMT
That's a cute plant sp, is it a dwarf type? What are you going to do when it starts growing a lot of suckers ;D it's going to look like a jungle in there if the weather stays nice.
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 27, 2012 11:47:59 GMT
Esther, it is planted in the ground. I had to cut the pot away from it as it was growing through the drainage holes.. i know this means wrapping it up for the winter and hoping for the best but at worst I've only lost a fiver. Jrae it is not a dwarf plant and if it is allowed to grow it should reach c 6' although somehow I doubt that happening. Jungle would be nice though  Grindle. I lost a musa basjoo last year and that is hardier than this one so I am taking a gamble. Our climate here in Pembrokeshire is very similar to Cornwall so you never know. |
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Post by jrae on Jul 27, 2012 14:44:14 GMT
sweetpea this might help my mom kind of does it like this when she overwinters her bananas (she kept them for 4 years then got tired of all the overwintering plants work). www.cooltropicalplants.com/Protecting-cold-hardy-bananas.htmlShe has my dad help out too because after that process you see in the webpage (when it's all wrapped up and covered with pails/pots at the top) they put up some sort of teepee around the whole thing then stuff it again with straw and cover it with fleece. |
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 27, 2012 16:08:32 GMT
Thank you for that Jrae. Very comprehensive. I have everything except the straw. No doubt I will get everything ready and we will have a heatwave over winter |
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Post by esther on Jul 29, 2012 11:23:20 GMT
Sweetpea - we just sink the pot in the ground rather than plant it |
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