Found this one today at Lowes. I love the leaves on this one. The edges are red, the underside of the leaf is red, and the trunk is also red. Ensete ventricosum "maurelli"
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Beautiful.....
Our Lowes hasn't brought out the bananas yet.. that one you have is gorgeous..
I lost a couple of mine this year to frost, will take the ones I have left inside come this winter.
We don't have a Lowes, waaaah! That nana is gorgeous!
Gosh, that is a beauty. Wish we had Lowes close to us, but out of luck, I guess.
Beautiful nana~!
The Lowes around here doesn't have nice plants like that :( Really nice nana you have there.
Jean
rylaff, that is like the one I got last year from Home Depot, only mine is abyssian, I think that is how to spell it. I just love mine. By the way, it did winter over in the ground, with lots and lots of pine straw piled up on it. I do not think that these make babies, though, but I am hoping.
Very pretty. I am gong to need a banna too.
I got one at the Plant show here a few weeks ago, and it is called ro jo. Looks like a blood leaf nana to me.
Whew!!!! Giving me a reason to go to Lowes!
Also, Home Depot. May be not in yet though; still a little cool.
I drove 50 miles today to go to Lowes and I got my nanna! Hee hee, I'm tickled! They also had a few echeverias that I didn't already have, so it was a good trip.
We all need to keep a close eye where we can get an AEAE nanna and not have to mortgage the house to get it. Has anybody ever seen one up close and alive instead of just a picture?
I have only seen pics, and at a 100$ a plant, that is as close as I will ever get. Maybe someone will come along and cross it with anyother that is easier to care for, hardier, and cultivates easier so it will be cheaper.
I had one, note the past tense of that verb. It didn't survive the move. I had it wrapped up and it was in the moving van instead of the horse trailer. It still got too cold and slowly withered away.
I have 3 Lowe's and 3 Home Depots ... all within a 50 mile radius or so, I don't think I have ever seen a nana at them. Will have to check.
I bought a maurelii on EBay last year, and it survived the winter here with minimal damage, is coming back nicely. I have seen the AeAe at the NOBG spring show and sale, but it is still out of my price range, and from what I hear, is tough to grow anyway, so certainly don't want to spend that amount of money on something that would probably die anyway.
I hope somebody hits me on the head the next time I buy something hard to grow cause I just have to have it. Now I am agonizing over a doggoned fern tree that just teases me daily. I wish I would not have bought it. I wish I would never have seen it so I would not want it. It is so tempermental.
Roz, they have fern trees here. I'm glad you told us they are tempermental. Now I can talk myself out of it!
I've heard that most people kill their first AeAe and sometimes the second one too but by the third one, they've learned how to grow them. Guess that would be an expensive lesson.
I got my fern tree at Lowe's, and I only paid 12.00 for a big one, so it is not so expensive, just aggravating cause it is so pretty. At the plant show at the Coliseum here, they had those things for 30.00 and up.
Hey Waterloolily, how are you? Like you I have alot of Lowes and Home Depots around. Like you, I've never seen that plant, if I had, no one else would have.:) That's a beautiful plant.
What in the heck is a fern tree?