Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Musa 'Margarita", 1 by joegee

joegee wrote:
You don't live that far from me and I grow musa basjoo outside all year round. ;) Here are my babies this year, as of last weekend (they've been outside for three years now.) They're at about eleven feet. They should hit twelve to thirteen feet before the first frost. :)

The door is on a west side, the wall to the right is on the north side. I dug out a window well and filled it with wood ash, then very rich soil. After the frost knocks the leaves down I cut the trunks back to about a foot high, then I build a low cage of chicken wire over top of them and fill it with two feet of fall leaves.

They're very easy to grow, and as you can see, very dramatic. :)

-Joe