Just Fruits and Exotics

Bananas are the best way to add tropical splendor to your landscape. Lush and fast growing, bananas can be used as a backdrop or as a focal specimen.

Create a summer windbreak or privacy screen, or create an instant shade garden. Mix in elephant ears and gingers for a South Seas paradise.

Bananas will grow and produce fruit regularly in the colder regions of the Lower South (Zones 8B and 9). It takes two things to be successful: a variety that will fruit in 9 months (most varieties take 2 years), and plenty of water and fertilizer. Bananas fruit year `round in Zone 10.

Ornamental Varieties

ABYSSINIAN Outstanding specimen in the summer garden. Deep red foliage and thick red trunks add tropical beauty. Reaches 18-20 feet. Ornamental only. Zones 8B-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

BASJOO Super cold hardy, snow banana! Will survive to zone 7. Beautiful lush green leaves, ornamental white bloom. Reaches 12 feet. Zones 7-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

CHINESE YELLOW (Musella lasiocarpa) Shrub-like specimen with leathery gray-green foliage, reaches to 6'. Grown for its large, bizarrely beautiful yellow flowers that resemble giant golden artichokes. Zones 7-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

ROJO RED Gorgeous deep burgandy foliage dappled with green. Grows 6-8 ft. Wonderful in containers. Zones 7-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

Fruiting Varieties (Musa spp.)

APPLE A petite banana with a crisp apple flavor. Yummy! Zones 8B-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

BELLA Tall, vigorously growing tree (to 15-20' high) is reputed to be wind resistant and relatively cold tolerant as well. Grows the first year, preferring full sun, and fruits the second, with large, good quality bananas with an orange interior. Juvenile foliage is often highly colored. Quickly gives a luxuriously tropical look to the landscape whether or not it fruits Zones 8B-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

DWARF ORINOCO Grows 10-12 ft. Cook as a plantain or eat fresh off the tree. Large, thick fruit. Good grower in Florida. Zones 8B-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

PINEAPPLE Finger banana. Grows 8-12 ft., with thin-skinned, 5-inch long fruit. Has a distinctive pineapple flavor. Very unusual. And an offshoot of Raja Puri that fruits readily. Zones 8A-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

RAJA PURI If you only want one variety of banana, get this one. It is the strongest, and easiest to fruit. This native of India rarely exceeds 8 feet in height. The tough trunks are wind and disease resistant. Hands of bananas are large, 30 to 40 pounds, and each fruit is 5-6 inches. The flavor is excellent. Its dwarf size make it an excellent container plant for colder climates. Zones 8A-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).

THOUSAND FINGERS As the name implies, this variety will produce as many as 1000 bananas. This plant only produces female flowers and will continue to produce fruit until the stalk reaches the ground. The fruit is small, with a sweet pleasant flavor. Zones 8B-10. $29.99 3 gal (4-5ft).











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