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They are quite capable of living here and growing robustly depending on variety. Not everyone grows them for fruit, some of us grow them for their ornamental value and uncommonness, I have quite a few seeded fruit species that stay out year round and I get 20 foot tall plants by fall, and bananas occasionally on my edible types. A large percentage of us on Bananas.org do not live in year round warm places, its part of the fun. If they were common here I probably would have never bothered as all my plants are unusual or uncommon for this area, I am not into petunias, or marigolds, because everyone here has those. People stop and knock on my door asking for a start of this and that every summer, or ask me questions about my plants. Its the same for palms, here they are a rarity and get a lot of looks, It is a form of art in a way, in California they are considered weeds. I was quite impressed when I saw my first hardy palms, and basjoo growing in zone 6 north of here, and a hardy citrus tree as well.

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