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bigdog · 10-09-2007, 06:49 PM

Hi Kyle, I was impressed with this one! It's actually not a park, but the landscaping around the Anniston Museum of Natural History. The guy who has donated all of the plants (including lots of cold-hardy palms and other hardy subtropicals) is an SPS member, and a member of this forum. There are about 40 different varieties and species of bananas at the museum!

I lost a Musa basjoo in a pot one winter, just seeing what I could get away with. It's a whole 'nother ball game when they are in the ground with some mulch over them. Anyway, Hayes said that Musa itinerans in the picture has had its pseudostems survive the last two winters totally unprotected. In the spring, it starts growing from the top of the pseudostems! I hope my var. xishuangbannaensis proves to be close to the same hardiness. He also has another M. itinerans variety that was collected in Thailand at very high altitudes, and is trialing it in the ground this winter. It's a 30-footer!

I'm greenhousing my 'India Form' itinerans this winter, and planting out in the spring. You're right about it loking just like the Musa vino-tinto picture on the NP site! Weird.

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