johninbideford
04-09-2015, 03:52 PM
Hello, I'm new to Bananas.org - but not to bananas!
I live in Bideford, N Devon, in the UK - on the Bristol Channel coast.
I am currently growing M basjoo, M sikkimensis, M balbisiana, M itinerans (Mekong Giant) Ensete glaucum and E maurellii. I have also grown Musa (Musella) lasiocarpa which perished in the 2010/2011 winter, together with a M basjoo with four "trunks." It was not so much the intensity of the cold as its duration and the strength of the wind which, together, served to provide an unusually penetrating frost which, I believe, froze deep into the plants, and deep into the ground.
So there you have it. I'm looking forward to reading posts and, possibly, making one or two of my own.
I live in Bideford, N Devon, in the UK - on the Bristol Channel coast.
I am currently growing M basjoo, M sikkimensis, M balbisiana, M itinerans (Mekong Giant) Ensete glaucum and E maurellii. I have also grown Musa (Musella) lasiocarpa which perished in the 2010/2011 winter, together with a M basjoo with four "trunks." It was not so much the intensity of the cold as its duration and the strength of the wind which, together, served to provide an unusually penetrating frost which, I believe, froze deep into the plants, and deep into the ground.
So there you have it. I'm looking forward to reading posts and, possibly, making one or two of my own.