Musa basjoo - the 'hardy' banana
I'm seeing new growth on my bananas. New leaves are emerging. This is the 'hardy' banana, Musa basjoo, from the foothills of the Himalayas. I grow it unprotected in my Plymouth garden, accepting that, if we have a really bad winter, I'll lose the tall pseudostems to ground level. Fortunately, we haven't had one of those for a few years and the pseudostems have grown tall. Tall enough that, perhaps, one or more may even flower - and then die. They leave offsets - but these take time to grow from the rootstock. So, hopefully they won't all flower at once...
...and continue to provide these sort of displays in my small rear garden.
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