AllenF

Thanks for your input. I really do appreciate it.

I plan to put my DCs, Raja Puris and Dwarf Brazilian in a shelter on the south side of the garage and provide heat to about 55*F over the winter in the hope of fruiting them.

I had no plans for the M. basjoo when I bought it and still do not have plans for it. Because of it's hardiness, I think that I will be able to get away with heat just above freezing from Heat tapes. I have the palms in a shelter on the south side of the house and have reserved the rest of the south wall of the house for a couple of Sabal minors. The other bananas will go against the south wall of the garage. I would put the basjoo on the west wall of the garage except that I have chased my wife's sweet peas from the south wall of the house to the south wall of the garage to the west wall of the garage and there isn't anywhere else to move them to. I wouldn't sleep comfortably if the sweet peas did not have a place.

I'll post pics of the 2 shelters that I built this fall.

Allen

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