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Old 11-01-2017, 07:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hello all, this is actually my second post... I forgot to introduce myself first! My name is Nick and I live in Virginia. I am crazy about most plants but the Musa basjoo is what got me into banana plants in the first place. I discovered how cold hardy they were and decided I had to have one. I bought 2 4" potted basjoos online but that was not enough for me. I then bought 2 large ones for $45 apiece from a nursery and later 6 medium sized ones for $100 total. My good friend at another nursery gave me over 150 (not even exaggerating) and it's safe to say I finally have enough. I also have 1 zebrina and a dwarf cavendish that grew a ton this summer. And I also received a musa aeae in the mail today as well.. I made a thread about it under Ornamental but I am not quite sure it submitted.

I also love pretty much all plants.. I have quite the collection at home; I am in college now and have 19 different species in the dorm.. my roommate thinks it's awesome but I think I may be becoming a plant hoarder (lol). I have a ton of cold hardy plants at home alone with some really cool zone 6a palms, yuccas, and 1 type of agave that can withstand that as well. I also have 5 super rare plants.. the dracaena draco, dracaena cinnibari, opuntia echios var echios, opuntia Galapagea var galapagea, and as of today, the Musa Aeae.

Anything else you want to know, I'd be happy to discuss it. Here is a picture of what I planted around the pool and also 100/150 of the basjoos I acquired this summer. Enjoy.

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the plant is not musa aeae it's most likely some form of thai variegated banana plant (i was mislead by the picture on best price plants.com.. it showed a picture of a young aeae... it is still a cool plant though)
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Growing: Ensete ventricosum 'maurelli', Musa balbisiana 'Thai Black', bordelon, basjoo, Dwarf Cavendish, Dwarf Orinoco, itinerans var. itinerans, lasiocarpa, orinoco (tall), saba, sikkimensis 'Red Tiger', TaNee, zebrina, VDN (green), 1000 fingers, praying hands, ornata purple, veluntina, french red, super dwarf cavendish, dwarf iholena, red iholena, balbisiana (yellow), kru, mananzo, zebrina var. gran nain.

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