Hello from Jacksonville!
I'm so excited about this forum! Although I do like other plants like bromeliads and gingers as well, Bananas are much more fascinating to me for their prodigious growth, ability to feed the world's most impoverished regions and their rich history.
Though I live in an apartment with an epiphyte festooned balcony, I garden and landscape for my mother at least weekly with a strong focus on a tropical style. Since the yard backs up to a swamp thats only inundated after tropical storms, the ground is always moist and it's great for thirsty bananas and other plants that normally need a lot of watering.
I have started growing a maurelli abyssinian banana, a double mahoi, super dwarf cavendishes, musa "zebrina" and just picked up a red iholene, which I'm very excited about. Anyone have any notes on cold hardiness on the new red iholene? Thanks!
Steve
"He's the bonana king, Chaaarley!"
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