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Speedjester
04-07-2015, 06:37 PM
Not sure if this is against policy here...( feel free to delete if so) but wanted to share some info about a company I found... The Yellow Banana company in Leesburg Fl...they have a good selection of pups and trees for sale.....I've brought quite a few specimens from them in the last few weeks from Blue Jave ,Saban , cenyon and Texas star..to name a few... Small company husband and wife ...Very good people...check out there web site..

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jeffaroo
05-07-2015, 12:03 AM
First I'd like to remind you of all the bother of a return or mixup with Florida Hill. Just email, no phone #, just a one sentence response in email form, if the problem is hard to explain..... tough, you just get email once a day.
I recently seen this post and gave the guy a try, boom..... phone number on a Web page!!!!
I called and left a msg, within 2 hours ( forgot his name )
Called me back. He didn't talk to me as a customer, he talked as if I was a long lost friend. He answered every question I had and thanked me for looking him up. His wife even did extra research for me in my area and made a recommendation to save me some costs.
A++++ to the Yellow Banana Company..... a new customer till the end !!!

Foreverlad
05-07-2015, 01:36 PM
What's their definition of Large and Small banana plants? I'd love to get my hands on Saba and a few others, but there are no photos to gauge by.

jeffaroo
05-07-2015, 01:42 PM
He is a hands-on kind of business man. Shoot him a email or a phone call. It's a husband and wife operation and they would be happy to go over things with you

Speedjester
05-07-2015, 03:15 PM
What's their definition of Large and Small banana plants? I'd love to get my hands on Saba and a few others, but there are no photos to gauge by.



I picked up a few 7ft( stem) Sabas ,Blue Javas , Texas Stars.. Not sure what he has available now..He lets you pick what you want before he pulls them..

Kat2
05-07-2015, 08:53 PM
I e-mailed about shipping 3 or more pups; I'm 70 miles away and not up for a road trip. I was told $10 per $5 pup and $20 per $10 "tree". Gulp! Too rich for my blood. Oh, well...

Grannycore
05-07-2015, 09:12 PM
In their defense, their plants are huge. $10 was a great price for it - other nurseries charge three times that, without shipping. I just got an amazing raja puri plant from them. The pstem was almost 5 feet tall (not including leaves) and has been the best plant I've received by far. The thing must have weighed 30 lbs. it's also adjusted to my garden really well. so for $10 + $20 shipping I got a much better plant than I received from other places, even though their plant+shipping amount was $5-10 less.

Kat2
05-07-2015, 09:42 PM
In their defense, their plants are huge. $10 was a great price for it - other nurseries charge three times that, without shipping. I just got an amazing raja puri plant from them. The pstem was almost 5 feet tall (not including leaves) and has been the best plant I've received by far. The thing must have weighed 30 lbs. it's also adjusted to my garden really well. so for $10 + $20 shipping I got a much better plant than I received from other places, even though their plant+shipping amount was $5-10 less.I'm not disagreeing with the value but I was looking at pups and I live very close so wasn't expecting a high shipping cost. Sounds like a great deal if you can pick up or live farther away.

TommyMacLuckie
05-08-2015, 10:29 PM
Tell all yer friends:

Avoid Ty Ty "nursery".

Period. It's beyond ALL COSTS to avoid them, let people know they are a COMPLETE SHAM.

Bad mouth them, anything - they are awful people.

This is not spam. I am not promoting those bungholes. This is absolutely serious.



On a lighter note, Stokes Tropicals in Louisiana (Home Page (http://stokestropicals.plants.com/)) has a nice selection. Things improve as summer starts. I've had great success with plants I've ordered from them.

Kat2
05-08-2015, 11:05 PM
Tell all yer friends:

Avoid Ty Ty "nursery".

I guess I thought every gardener knew about them but possibly not. When in doubt about a nursery/source it's a good idea to check garden watchdog. Guide to Gardening by Mail, Mail Order Gardening, and Catalogs (http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/) They don't catch all the bad guys and the new/small sources aren't necessarily listed. (I couldn't find The Yellow Banana Company there.) But it's been very helpful to me over the years.

And this is coming from someone who has never been highly displeased with cheap plants she received from Michigan Bulb. I did say cheap, didn't I?:ha: Best fig ever was $3 in the 80s from them...

Richard
05-09-2015, 01:01 AM
Not sure if this is against policy here...( feel free to delete if so) but wanted to share some info about a company I found... The Yellow Banana company in Leesburg Fl...they have a good selection of pups and trees for sale.....I've brought quite a few specimens from them in the last few weeks from Blue Jave ,Saban , cenyon and Texas star..to name a few... Small company husband and wife ...Very good people...check out there web site..
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What, if any, business affiliations do you have with this company?
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PR-Giants
05-09-2015, 08:26 AM
What, if any, business affiliations do you have with this company?



Yellow Banana Company is this member (http://www.bananas.org/member-jessedian.html)

Many of the cultivars are still not identified correctly.

Yellow Banana Co. (http://yellowbananacompany.weebly.com/banana-varieties.html)

Grannycore
05-09-2015, 11:04 PM
I'm not disagreeing with the value but I was looking at pups and I live very close so wasn't expecting a high shipping cost. Sounds like a great deal if you can pick up or live farther away.

Yes, it's probably very different being in Florida, and I didn't think about that... you guys seem to have a lot of good stuff close by. I always try to stop somewhere when I'm down there. Up here we have surprisingly little choices, so I have to mail order most things that are interesting, including all the bananas. Our local nursery chain has $50 basjoo, and Walmart had something just labeled "banana" and that sums up the whole of my local choices (:

Grannycore
05-09-2015, 11:05 PM
Yellow Banana Company is this member (http://www.bananas.org/member-jessedian.html)

Many of the cultivars are still not identified correctly.

Yellow Banana Co. (http://yellowbananacompany.weebly.com/banana-varieties.html)

Which ones were you thinking?

Kat2
05-09-2015, 11:27 PM
Yes, it's probably very different being in Florida, and I didn't think about that... you guys seem to have a lot of good stuff close by. I always try to stop somewhere when I'm down there. Up here we have surprisingly little choices, so I have to mail order most things that are interesting, including all the bananas. Our local nursery chain has $50 basjoo, and Walmart had something just labeled "banana" and that sums up the whole of my local choices (:I never considered growing bananas when I lived in MD or OH. Dumb me has a few "not supposed to grow here" plants (cheap) started now hoping to zone push--I do have some great shade but doubt they'll acclimate. Then again I took a fig from a warm zone 7 to NE OH that died back 2 winters then actually bore the next summer so I'm optimistic--as are all true gardeners.

PR-Giants
05-10-2015, 06:59 AM
Which ones were you thinking?

Just look at their photos.

Click on the link and read their threads, they joined the org so someone could tell them what their growing.

Speedjester
05-11-2015, 07:13 AM
What, if any, business affiliations do you have with this company?
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Does anything I've posted.. Lead you to believe I am affiliated with them???

jeffaroo
05-17-2015, 12:16 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=57902&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57902&ppuser=18939)
Just got my Saba today