Bob

So its been a pretty good year here for the bananas so here's some shots. you can see most of them got pretty big and will have to be overintered dormant as I supsect several more have buds well up the p-stem. some will go int the front porch as will a lot of the pups I removed yesterday..
Here's what you see from the street looking in to my driveway towards the back yard( for some scale the yucca rostrata in the middle is about 6 ft tall).:

this brought a lot of people and even some strangers to the door asking for a tour.... all of them got it and most were mentioning Jurrasic Park once they spotted these two Ensetes... The E Glaucum was the little one I grew from seed last year and never made 2 ft tall ... this year it did well and the base is over 15" wide all around

The plumeria has had its best blooming year ever and has done fine after spending its first year completely unpotted and dormant in the root cellar:


Here's the main garden bed as seen from above:


and from the ground:


Not the best shot but my " lucky banana"( turned out to be a Nam Wah tall ) won in Mitchels contest grew the tallest of any of the true bananas and the p-stem alone grew to over 9ft and overall maybe 15 to the top of the highest leaf..... when its standing up in the wind anyway... the "Stuttgart" cannas in front of it got to be over 6 ft tall the first year and formed a nive clump from one small plant!:


On the other side of the house in the new garden put in this spring the Colocasia Gigantea dominated:

and just yesterday the little M. Velutina sent up a flag:


I put a new small pond in towards the front yard on the other side and the variegated Iris and Papyrus are thriving along with the lillies and goldfish:


and the "seasde garden" next to it did surprisingly well to and contains sea side goldenrod, various Ice plants , beach wormwood and some sedums as well as a few other unidentified plants rescues from some crumbling dunes.


Altogether not a bad year I'd say ... what I wouldn't do with 6 months more of warm weather

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Dalmatiansoap

Bravo Bob! Great plants and Jurasic look U have there
Its just TOO BAD U cannot keep that all year arround.

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Kostas

Trully awesome garden you got there Bob!!!! It's hard to imagine you lanscape it annually... It already gives a sense of maturity!

Those Ensetes do give that Jurassic look with their huge leafs!!!

Well done!!!

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palmtree

Beautiful yard! All your plants look fantastic! I agree, this summer was a great season!!!
Good luck and thanks for sharing!!!

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Bob

Thanks all. I plan on digging the Velutina( Dasycarpa) since its so small I really think I'll be able to pot it for the winter without disturbing the roots.... we'll see how it goes and whether it does well or fails I'll post it so folks can see.

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CookieCows

WOW beautiful!!!!

How are you going to overwinter the ensetes? I have a small one that only got to about 4 feet tall to top of leaves and about the same width around and I'm worried about what I'm going to do next year with no green house!! This year I was able to dig it up and put in the house.

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Bob

Hey Deb, do you remember the link that was around here a couple of years ago with that guy Roland from Germany overwintering his Ensetes and other things? I dont know any German but read( ok, looked at the pictures) his web site over and over and picked up that you can overwinter them dormant like I did with the Maurelii's last year but the trick is to keep them as upright as possible or they'll rot, so thats what I'm going to do with both of them and all my bigger bananas again in the attached root cellar under my house.

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CookieCows

Ok well that sounds do'able as we have a really tall dome like metal workshop. I got to thinking that a green house wouldn't do me any good anyway as when I do get one it's not going to be one of those big commercial ones anyway. Thanks!

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Blake09

WOW Bob!! Simply Beautiful!!





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hammer

Very nice Bob good pics.

saltydad

Looks great, Bob! Next time I'm going up to visit my son in NY I'll give you a call and see it up close and personal. BTW, the IC pup had some rot, so I cut it back and it's now on it's 2nd full leaf and looking good. Thanks again!!

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natej740

Your plants look great! I hope my Maurelii gets that big one day.

Bananaman88

Great pics, Bob!

venturabananas

Beautiful yard Bob. With your talent, just think what you could do it if you lived somewhere with warm winters!

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Bob

Thanks all, I wonder myself what i'd be growing if I were in zone 10 for example. No doubt I wouldn't have any lawn left at all...... and could use my porch and basement for.... sitting, laundry, storage

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