RogerEvenBove

So what plants are you pushing aside from bananas? Here in SE PA my 'indestructible' Basjoo gave out after about 12 years and much abuse. At one point it recovered although, when I tried to move it from construction, the root splintered into pieces no move than 3 inches long. Passiflora Caerula (I think), which had escaped from a pot of Thompson and Morgan mixed passionfruit also went through 10 years of freezing to the roots and regenerating but expired after a second move. (I am only sure that it wasn't P. Incarnata because that is a weed on another part of the property.) This year I have three hybrids in the earth in a sheltered area under a raspberry patch that look robust enough to survive. Of course I have figs, which do well after a mild winter. However, the big success are so-called tender kiwis, originally grown from seed and later supplemented with numbered varieties from the Pacific Northwest. These have been cut to the ground twice and are now coming back into production.