Originally Posted by aruzinsky

That is not my experience in the Chicago area which was recently changed from zone 5b to 6a, but, it is still 5b 30 miles away. I think the change was part of the global warming propaganda conspiracy under Obama. Anyway, my bananas grew like crazy in the ground but I just let them die there when it got cold.

Here is a picture taken in 1987:


The red thing is a musa coccinea flower and the fat ass is me.