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
