Thanks everyone. I am from Montana originally, but have lived in Brazil off an on over a lot of the past 30 years and have been in Manaus since 2000. I have a spot on the other side of the Negro River, about 2.5 acres where I am developing a garden focusing a lot on palms. But, bananas are a quick satisfaction plant and provide good fruit as well. This is our dry season and I do not have a good irrigation system to keep newly planted things in the open watered properly so I am going to wait a couple of months until the rains come back to get a bunch of bananas planted. I have a few red bananas going and another one that was on my land when I bought it. But, I do not know which one it is.
It is the little one in this picture.
And, I am going to put some dwarfs called nanica here on this slope along with some low growing fruit trees like barabados cherry.
And, this is the same area looking down the slope toward the Negro River. As Bob mentioned a lot of tropical fish come this area. It is up the Negro in the area of Barcelos, about 400 kms up the river where most come from. The Negro river is black water that looks like tea.
This is looking out over the river at high water time, now. During the low water period, October there is a sandy beach here. The pictures are of the same spot, just a little different angle.
