Musa Basjoo is a spectacular and flamboyant plant that offers a tropical look for climates that are nowhere near the Equator, climates like the Pacific Northwest even. It’s actually a banana tree.

Early in the fall, Linda, who gardens with her husband Glenn in Langford, sent me an email with several photos: “I wanted to show you our banana plant that has produced bananas. We planted it in the ...

Why grow a banana tree in your garden? Hmm, because gardeners in Toronto can’t? No, the real reason we like to do it is that it gives the garden such a lush tropical, desert-island look. Musa basjoo ...

The Japanese fibre banana, Musa basjoo, can thrive in surprisingly cold temperatures We all have our own annual milestones that coax us out of horticultural hibernation, kicking off a flurry of plans ...

There seems to be something about gardeners, some fatal flaw or linked gene that predisposes all of us to insist on growing things we just shouldn’t try to grow. If the wild type of a plant has white ...

The plant has flowered for the first time since it was acquired in 2019 Horticulturists at a garden in Harrogate have celebrated the blooming for the first time ever of a 15ft (4.5m) banana plant. The ...

Horticulturists at a garden in Harrogate have celebrated the blooming for the first time ever of a 15ft (4.5m) banana plant. The Musa Basjoo banana plant has flowered at RHS Garden Harlow Carr. The ...