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I also have an Ae Ae in the garden, here it is with a newly opened leaf. I gotta re-plant those sunflowers surrounding it. They provide some shade, but don't last very long.

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Heres my Sahakalin Basjoo

nice Papaya Yug!
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Hi,

finally, I`m back. :)

Look what I got today - two beautiful "Hua Moa" pups from bananimal. Now they have to get along with an exceptionally cold German summer...or at least the rest of it...

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Jack - I've just seen your facebook posting for Ante, and that is soooo funny!:ha: (and very true in lots of cases)

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Thanks, I have about 7 in a row, but they're nothing special.

Nice mountain you have there!

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What are they, dwarfs or regular?

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Just wanted to post this picture of two sikkimensis bananas and a moso bamboo to the right. As you can see the banana to the left is much more red than the other, but they come from two different seeds which probably explains it.

These bananas are the one who have grown by far the fastest and the center one has already produced 2 pups. The bamboo has also been growing incredibly fast dispite the cooler weather and has reached 1m (planted it out when it was about 20cm).

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Here is my musa ice cream.

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Hi, here is an update of my garden (August 2011)





Bananas are invaded by Clerodendron Bungei



Gunnera manicata, trachycarpus fortunei, Eryngium pandanifolium,Hibiscus sino-syriacus...


same plants and hedychiums ,the small tree with white flowers is Clerodendron trichotomum



small sikkimensis



gunnera manicata (still young)





Clerodendron bungei blooming




young sabal palmetto


asplenium scolopendrium and erythrina crista galli



chamaerops humilis cerifera ?leaves are not very blue (the wax is destroyed by too much rainy days in this area)



young jubaea chilensis






unidentified banana :was given to me as an orinoco banana but seems like a cultivar of Basjoo...I remark that leaves are wery wide for the size





Musa hybrid Helen's keeps the same size for years why?



Canna indica and Brugmansia suaevolens



Thalia dealbata and colocasia jack giant



The thalia is jus beginning to bloom





two species of Tetrapanax papirifera growing together (the regular and steroidal giant)



young phoenix theophrastii



Ligularia (i don't remeber the name of the cultivar)



another sort of canna and clerodendron trichotomum



Butia and Parajubaea (certainly TvT)





beschorneria yuccoïdes completely surrounded by weeds



young beschorneria septentrionalis in ground since spring





both of my butias are blooming ,but to late in the season for having fruits

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:woohoonaner:

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Ante, your garden with this mountain behind looks like picture from Chile to me :waving:

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Hello, everyone!

Here are a few pictures of my garden last summer (2011)



M. basjoo





Musa 'Dajiao', gift from Ante



M. basjoo and 2 x Cupressus sempervirensa




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May 2011

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Jack, hows PK doing?
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The papaya? They're about as regular as they come. (just saw this question)

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Last weekend, about two weeks eariel than usually I planted my bananas in the garden.
Here is M. basjoo



and E. Maurelli

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Nice! Did you store them dormant in a basement or something?

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Actually I kept them indoor, spread all over the house :) I had to shorten the leaves because these which grew indoor were not very wind resistant, as you know.

I have just realised I did it not the last weekend but the one before so these photos are from the last weekend of April.

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Well to cut it short, my - for the moment - only banana (Basjoo) last August


the full size was abt 3m when freezing hit in Nov.

unfortunately the winter wrapping was not perfect so i had to get rid off all that remained from last year, but it sems the rhizome survived well and ...


Janos

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Szia Wanti. :bananas_b

This is how my Ensete looks now, it had a bad luck this spring and couple serious stors damaged almost all leaves. Also the strong Sun has burnt gentle winter leaves.

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In case anyone likes photos, I took these this morning while checking on the garden.

Ae Ae bunch progressing nicely


Bungulan now has wider leaves that can handle higher light intensity


Williams is growing well, but nothing special


Double Mahoi is taller than my neighbor's fruiting ones, but still no bud. On the
left is Hawaiian sugarcane - Ko Honua Ula - about 7 1/2 to 8 ft high.


Gros Michel 'Cocos' doing well

GM has nice color on the petioles


Dwarf Namwah growing slower, and leaves still roundish


Hua Moa with 6 ft p-stem, and 10 pups


Manai Ula has stopped growing, but the pup is taking off


Manzano bunch slowly getting fatter


I liked my daughter's SDC (left) so well I bought one with 2 pups (right) for me


Saba and pups - largest pup has 7 ft p-stem, main plant is 14 in at base


Ko Halai'i - variegated Hawaiian sugarcane, about 7 ft high


That's enough for now. :08:

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Wow, Yug, you crushed us :exercisenaner:

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Nawww, I just had a head start on the growing season because even when it is cold here, it is still pretty warm. :08:

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Ante, I see you turned to flowering plants this season, do you know that my parthenocissus which climbed on the garage almost all died this winter, only couple branches survived.

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My Musa velutina:0517:






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Hi Guys, I only have a small city garden so I don’t have many varieties of bananas in there… most of my collection I have on my allotment in a polytunnel.
Here are some pics of my garden!
E.ventricosum “Hiniba”


And here I have E.ventricosum “Maurelii” M.sikkimensis gigantean and M.lasciocarpa.



Thanks, Tony

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Maybe small but beautiful and very well composed.
Very nice collection of exotics. Your fatsia japonica is really huge. My fatsia suffering during winters too much and year by year is almost the same size (or smaller ;)).

this are couple of my bananas, this season.:

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Nice mini-jungle :08:

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Maurellis doing great

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With Balana girl for scale




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Not bad for over wintering period


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Ante, I wish I could over winter my nanas in the garden like that… it would be so cool!!
We in the UK have just had the coldest spring (March/April) in 50 years with cold winds coming from the northeast and my garden looks very bare at the moment, that’s all set to change at the weekend though because the wind is going to change direction and come from the south.:woohoonaner:

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You are lucky Ante,
Here spring is delayed for almost a month, I still have some snow, actually today is the first warmer day this "spring".

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Very nice Ante,well done! :) How come you have so much green already? All those leafs survived the winter unprotected? You must have had quite a great winter!Frost got mine in Pyrgos this winter too unfortunately,in February...I Melissia,i got snow for a few days,like usual,just less duration with not too low minimums.
How many leafs did you get from each banana till now? In Melissia,i only got 1 from my Ice Cream and my potted plantlets are working on their first acclimated one while in Pyrgos,i can see from the cameras i have 2 or more leafs on each of my potted bananas but i cant see how many on my in ground ones.

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Thanks,
I got most of damadge thanks to wind and combination with cold and dump weather results in loosing leaves. I dont have frost here. All others that arent protected from wind lost all green.

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Cigar anybody?


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wow and look at all the sunshine you have besides the beautiful plants!

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My basjoos are in the garden as well but mu E. venticosum died in basement during the winter :(
Ante have you moved?

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No, this Basjoo is planted in our garden up in the village.

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Looking very good Ante!!! :woohoonaner:
Are you expecting any flowers from your bananas this year?

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Maybe on daijao or maurelli but it will be in the Fall in the best chances

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I see... I am not expecting anything from my Ice Cream in Melissia either this year but i am expecting both my 'Kandrian' and 'Orinoco' to flower in Pyrgos relatively early this year! :woohoonaner:

How tall can 'Dajiao' and 'Fen Ba Jiao' get btw? I cant find much info on their final size.