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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My Under Gardener was seriously impressed by Monty's banana  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • paul_in_surreypaul_in_surrey Posts: 239
    I know this is probably a stupid comment, but whenever I've been lucky enough to jet off to a tropical island somewhere the bananas have always been growing in great big trees, rather like the coconuts, not from a head high plant. Am I missing something or is Monty intending one day to get an actual banana from his banana plant?
    “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Dovefromabove, I remember him gazing rather fondly at mine when you were here . Go on, treat him to one. He deserves it. 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    And where do you suggest he should put it? 

    We don't have a big polytunnel like you have  @Hostafan1 ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Dovefromabove said:
    My Under Gardener was seriously impressed by Monty's banana  ;)
    Mine knows enough now to have seen that shot of him wheel-barrowing it along and said 'Oh gawd it's the banana again'.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    Ah, but this was a different banana ...  plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose  ;) 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's bananas then. What about ships and shoes and sealing wax? 
    I think we've already covered cabbages elsewhere.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Dovefromabove said:
    My Under Gardener was seriously impressed by Monty's banana  ;)
    ooh err missus...have I stumbled in on a new Carry On film?   :dizzy:cold_sweat:

    Bananas, shmananas....can't get excited about them. I'm with Obelixx on it.
    Mind you - they'd normally suffer here, so not worth the bother, although it's been so weirdly hot and dry here for ages that I could have done with one to sit under today   :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Meh. Anything with so little root would last less than half an hour in my garden before it blew over. Even it didn't get frozen and ripped to shreds. I find dahlias too much of a faffle - I'm never going to have the stamina for a banana :lol:
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    @paul_in_surrey , I think Monty's banana plants are strictly ornamental.  You'd need a lot of warmth, and the right sort of banana plant, to produce fruit... and strictly speaking they're herbaceous plants rather than trees.  In Madeira and the Canaries, fruiting banana plants are no more than 10ft tall, on the whole - I believe 'Cavendish' is the variety.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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