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 ...

The hardy banana (Musa basjoo) is a different species than the tropical bananas we're used to (Musa x paradisiaca). It still needs some extra care in our climate; hardy bananas have survived ...

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 ...

Anyone who spends enough time gardening eventually gets sucked into what we call "shock gardening," that time-honored practice of growing something that just shouldn’t be there – or at least gives ...

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 ...

When we think of banana trees, places like the Caribbean come to mind. But Lucie Hérard has managed to turn that image on its head by growing them in her east-end Montreal yard, year round. She said ...

For the first time in 10 years, a B.C. man's banana plant is bearing fruit. Typically, the climate isn't suitable for growing bananas. The weather, however, has been unusually warm and dry this year. ...