Musa Basjoo doing nicely..

I can't help but smile when I see this Musa Basjoo, and it's off spring.

Grown plenty in my time and are so easy to grow. One of my favourite foliage plants (and I don't care if the leaves get shredded a bit)

 

Personally I prefer Musa sikkimensis - wider, more paddle-shaped leaves, and nice red colourings too. Not as hardy though ...

 

That's a impressive specimen @scott333 do you protect it in the winter?

 

I'd expect [a mature] Basoo with no protection, or perhaps just some dry mulch over the roots, to do 10' in a year, following an Arctic winter that cut it down to the ground

M. sikkimensis might be dead that same Winter :( I only managed to protect the straw-wrapped pseudostems of about 50% - 75% of mine last Winter, and that was exceptionally mild)

 

Well mine didn't.
I grew plants unprotected for years until 2009, then the clumps got hit hard that winter.
They struggled on making 4 ft max from the roots each year after that.
I finally gave up on the old roots and propagated a new plants from them, overwintering under cover for at least a year before planting out in fresh soil.

Just getting back to a reasonable size now.

 

Useful to know, thanks Pete. I'll make sure to wrap mine best as a I can, along with the Sikkis

 

I wrapped mine, though might have got away with it last winter.

Even so, I lost the biggest stem on a Musella lasiocarpa.