Banana Man in Winter Garden SHOCKER !!!

Thanks everyone, whiley even when its all jungly again its great for running round like a looney, and there's always toys to be made and played with :D Is it too early to be wishing for summer again ?

 

I want some monkey slippers like big mini 'Nana!!!!

I have wrapped my Musas and Ensettee in fleece, so hopefully the "trunk" will survive.

My Brug goes into the greenhouse (unheated). Its first winter here it caught the frost and I lost the trunk, so had to start back from ground level.

My Lasiocarpa will be dug up and put in the greenhouse and my Elephant Ears will have a bucket of fleece or straw over the top.

The TF's will just have the crown stuffed with straw...

BM what are you doing with your T Rex? I haven't a clue what to do with it!!!! It is flowering like mad and the leaves have been fantastic - can't wait for 2008!!!!

..... but I absolutely adore the cold crisp frosty days we get in January!!!!

Are you wrapping your trunks or letting them go back to ground level??

 

T-rex's I am told are ok, but you may lose the tip. They grow like mad so not a issue ?

Mine are being covered in one sheet of landscaping fabric (much like a fleece) laid over rather than wrapped just to keep the air frost off.

The bananas won't die completely I am prepared to lose a couple of feet of trunk. Trials with much smaller bananas suggest that in my garden I will be ok.

I have been thinking about the brug and its going to get a 2 layer cylinder wrap of corrugated PVC with some weathering on top (aka a binbag)

I can send you mini bananamans slippers but they are a bit holey :D

Their christmas present arrived today, I can't wait to drive it with them on the deck

 

hello there Bananaman, long time no see, I hope you're keeping well. Love the garden, I bet your boys (grandson's) just love playing there, kid's imaginations are something else aren't they? Keep up the good work

 

I want a car tooooo!!!

And monkey slippers.

Oh its just no fair. One day i'll make my own jungle.

 

Sarraceniac, I meant Chamaerops.

One day I will try Bananas when I have a decent size garden.

 

Strongy. You can try bananas now. They're about �£1 a kilo at Tesco.

 

:rolleyes:

 

Bargain ! :D

 

Keep your car just give me your garden :D . I could sit and look at your garden all day so keep up the good work.

 

You sure that's for the boys!!!????

.... and a little birdy told me you were going into Melons next year......

 

I am not sure how to anwser that without incriminating myself in numerous ways :D

 

Originally posted by BM:

Not in this neck of the woods mate.