Kern, who is chair of the West Los Angeles chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers, finally gave up growing Gros Michel, but ...

This hardy banana plant grows to the size of a small tree, often surprising gardeners when the foliage dies back with the arrival of the first frosts.

Hardy Banana Plants have large, paddle-shaped leaves and can produce small, light yellow flowers. You can plant them in the yard, in a pot outside or a larger pot near an inside window.

You might be surprised to learn that there’s a winter-hardy banana that you can grow in Maryland. It’s not used for fruit, but has the same human-sized leaves and certainly makes a memorable ...

First of all, a banana plant is actually an herb, not a tree. As for fruit, bananas seldom produce fruit this far north, although a cold hardy variety may produce if conditions are perfect.

Then there is a super-hardy banana hybrid (Musa basjoo) that can grow almost anywhere in the United States. Where its rhizomes are heavily mulched, it can survive temperatures as low as -10 degrees.