Though a perennial herb, the hardy banana can grow nearly 20 feet high, with trunks up to 12 inches wide. Leaves grow to 2 feet across and as long as 6 feet, forming a broad, bushy, umbrella-like ...

As for the banana tree, it's a seldom-fruiting hardy type called Musa basjoo. "I got a 'pup' at Lowe's in a little pot for $5.98 last May," he says. "Look at it now.

Hardy banana plants reach 12-18 feet tall with ample water and fertilizer, but its fruit, if produced at all, isn't edible. Still, the plant has considerable value in the landscape as an attention ...

The plants come in different sizes and varieties, but the only one that will make it reliably through a Mid-Atlantic winter is the Japanese hardy banana, Musa basjoo, and then only in its roots.

Hardy banana plants can reach 12-18 feet tall with ample water and fertilizer, but their fruit, if produced at all, isn't edible. Still, the plant has considerable value in the landscape as an ...

Q: I have a banana plant and a side-shoot baby plant growing in the ground and I am hoping they will both survive the winter. I think it is the hardy banana, but I am not sure. I cannot bring it ...

Cold-hardy banana makes a show in summer gardens. ... Each year, scores of area gardeners carefully tend their banana plants, growing them to the size of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex.

Hardy banana dwarfing the otherwise-large leaves of Elephant Ear in a mixed garden bed. Q: I’m a relative newcomer to Maryland but have always been attracted to the garden aesthetic of tropical ...