Re: Landscape Nanner
@Zac, you are right. Musa basjoo has winged petioles. I self have expericences with Musa basjoo in my yard since 2000. Last winter my first basjoo was killed back to the ground and came back with 14 new pups last spring. Now the plant is 5 feet tall, but grows quickly, it might be 7 or 8 feet tall at the end of this month. And the basjoo "Sakhalin" at my greenhouse has survived the past winter as the best, the pseudotrunks survived but cutten back to approx. 1/2 foot above the ground, they regrew by the telescope principe, now the tallest is as tall as me self, now as large as one mature Dwarf Cavendish on Tenerife.
I protect my basjoos and sikkis with a very thick mulch layer of straw, hedge cut, leaves, garden waste and dirt.
@JoeS475, I feel the same with you! I also hate cold climate, the climate is the problem to increase our banana collections. And I hate cold and dark winters. I try to start my own business and plan to emigrate to Southamerica. I currently learn Spanish and will also learn Portugese too. In December I will travel to Peru over the Christmas Days and New Year and check there. It will be great to celebrate the Christmas Days and New Year in the summer, in Southamerica the Christmas Days are always in the summer. I hope that you will find a new job in FL, CA, TX, GA or HI or start your own business. Then you sell your house and yard in New Jersey and buy a new house and yard or one banana plantation in the subtropics. Good luck!
Happy banana growing
Joachim
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