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Anyone have experience with banana trees?
Posted on 2/22/23 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 2/22/23 at 3:18 pm
Looking to add some more tropical flair around the pool area. Not so much concerned with getting actual fruit, just ornamental purposes.
Thoughts on them? Easy to maintain? I know they send out new shoots... are they easy to keep contained? Don't need new trees popping up everywhere.
Thoughts on them? Easy to maintain? I know they send out new shoots... are they easy to keep contained? Don't need new trees popping up everywhere.
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Posted on 2/22/23 at 3:30 pm to thatguy
Posted on 2/22/23 at 3:57 pm to meeple
I suppose that helps
Posted on 2/22/23 at 4:18 pm to thatguy
You will have them forever! I personally wouldn't add them unless I was going for fruit...
Posted on 2/22/23 at 4:28 pm to thatguy
i like them, i planted them on purpose.
you can contain them, its not that hard
go for it
theres a reason they are so widely planted
you can contain them, its not that hard
go for it
theres a reason they are so widely planted
Posted on 2/22/23 at 6:10 pm to thatguy
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Anyone have experience with banana trees?
worst trash ever discovered, if you hate someone, really really hate them, tell them to plant banana trees
Posted on 2/22/23 at 6:18 pm to keakar
Suggestions for tropical plants that have an upright growth habit that aren’t palms (or bananas I guess)
Posted on 2/22/23 at 6:32 pm to thatguy
Plant ANYTHING but a banana tree...you'll thank anyone who says this
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:15 pm to thatguy
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i like them, i planted them on purpose
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worst trash ever discovered, if you hate someone, really really hate them, tell them to plant banana trees
I love this board.
I had banana trees at a previous house. I didn't hate them, but the worst part was chopping them back every winter and carrying the remains off. They grow back quickly once spring comes.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:59 pm to BMoney
quote:best possible compost. Chop up with a shovel and feed back to the beds. Natures fertilizer
the worst part was chopping them back every winter and carrying the remains off
Posted on 2/22/23 at 9:39 pm to thatguy
I had some at my last house. They look pretty cool, are extremely easy to grow, and are not prone to pests. The thing is, they are totally intolerant of frost and die to the ground with the first frost….that’s why people don’t like them. On the positive side, they sprout anew every spring, so the foliage is always attractive and green.
Plant them with some elephants ears and some ginger plants and they look like a tropical paradise!
Plant them with some elephants ears and some ginger plants and they look like a tropical paradise!
Posted on 2/23/23 at 5:04 am to Spankum
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Plant them with some elephants ears and some ginger plants and they look like a tropical paradise!
They are a PITA to mess with every year, but they do look nice around a pool. The above advice is money in South Louisiana.....but all three die back with a freeze. And all three come back lush as hell the next spring. Just a little work in the winter removing all of the dead shite above ground.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:21 am to thatguy
Don’t frickin do it, you’ll wish you never did. Had some at my old house that the previous person planted. Biggest pain in my arse
Posted on 2/23/23 at 7:19 pm to RiceGravy11
I put some in when i lived in btr .... big pita to haul away each fall and really heavy.... just nope nope nope...
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:31 pm to OntarioTiger
Ours were mosquito central for us. I don’t know if it was from the plants or the plants blocking the wind. It took chains and 4x4 suv to pull those damn root balls out. A Polaris side by side couldn’t do it.
Posted on 2/24/23 at 7:38 am to thatguy
Plant them in a large nursery container, say 25 gal.
Sink the whole pot into the ground. This will keep them from spreading. Much easier to remove if you decide to.
Sink the whole pot into the ground. This will keep them from spreading. Much easier to remove if you decide to.
Posted on 2/24/23 at 8:33 am to thatguy
I spent 8 hours yesterday with a rake, a shovel, and a wagon completely pulling up 2 flowerbeds of banana trees, elephant ears, and ginger plants...they are beautiful when they're full bloom but mother frick the maintenance of them...NEVER again.
Posted on 2/24/23 at 9:00 am to Roux57
that’s every tropical
OP said he wanted tropicals, which die back in every freeze then come back reliably every spring. I have one 1/2 sun bed dedicated to tropicals and I just let them die back, cut the dead stuff with a cane knife and then spread it out in the bed. By March/april they are back and beautiful
OP said he wanted tropicals, which die back in every freeze then come back reliably every spring. I have one 1/2 sun bed dedicated to tropicals and I just let them die back, cut the dead stuff with a cane knife and then spread it out in the bed. By March/april they are back and beautiful
Posted on 2/24/23 at 10:11 am to Roux57
Y’all that are digging up banana trees, can I have them? I’d like to grow a forest around my fence line so I don’t have to wear swim trunks anymore
Shoot I’ll come dig them up if you want me to as long as you’re in br
Shoot I’ll come dig them up if you want me to as long as you’re in br
Posted on 3/1/23 at 10:49 pm to thatguy
I have 3-4 growing in the back left corner. They die back every winter but come back well. I guess the constant reset cycle keeps them under control because they don’t last long enough to be a problem. In Mandeville. I speculate that a little further south and they may be a problem controlling.
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