pmurphy
05-24-2014, 10:17 PM
Well, we here in Lotus Land had an especially hard winter with a lot of rain and then a week of -10C (14F) not once but twice! - once in December and again in January. And I don't have to tell you that subzero temperatures when the ground is saturated is not a good thing.
My "exotics" were hit pretty hard and a lot of the bananas (not to mention other plants) that I had planted in ground did not survive their first winter. However I was able to pull pups from some of them and wintered them inside, just in case........and now I'm glad I did.
My lovely mat of basjoo (that started at 4ft last spring) has been reduced to nothing but today I saw a couple starting to poke above the ground. I also thought I had lost my beautiful yellow banana - Musella lasiocarpa - but again today I see it rising from the ashes like the phoenix.
And being spring, I decide to clean out the greenhouse and bring all my babies (both newly purchased and winter survivors) out into the sunlight.....
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56105&size=1
Musa velutina with m. 'cali-gold' in the background
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56104&size=1
M. 'apple'
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56106&size=1
m. pitogo (a recent purchase)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56101&size=1
a trio of siam ruby ?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56103&size=1
m. 'mekong giant'
and rising from the ashes......
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56100&size=1
Musella lasiocarpa ..... and, FYI, that plant is 6" across at the base, or what's left of it :woohoonaner:
My "exotics" were hit pretty hard and a lot of the bananas (not to mention other plants) that I had planted in ground did not survive their first winter. However I was able to pull pups from some of them and wintered them inside, just in case........and now I'm glad I did.
My lovely mat of basjoo (that started at 4ft last spring) has been reduced to nothing but today I saw a couple starting to poke above the ground. I also thought I had lost my beautiful yellow banana - Musella lasiocarpa - but again today I see it rising from the ashes like the phoenix.
And being spring, I decide to clean out the greenhouse and bring all my babies (both newly purchased and winter survivors) out into the sunlight.....
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56105&size=1
Musa velutina with m. 'cali-gold' in the background
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56104&size=1
M. 'apple'
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56106&size=1
m. pitogo (a recent purchase)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56101&size=1
a trio of siam ruby ?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56103&size=1
m. 'mekong giant'
and rising from the ashes......
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56100&size=1
Musella lasiocarpa ..... and, FYI, that plant is 6" across at the base, or what's left of it :woohoonaner: