Almost exactly a year ago a new plant arrived in my sunroom, courtesy of my ever patient dearly beloved. Apparently he gets a kick out of my excited reaction to such events! I was delighted beyond words with this lovely little plant, potted it in what looked like a huge pot, and started to care for it.
He had special ordered it for me, and when it came in the nursery had ordered others too. They put them in the “water plants” section. Well, I guess that's okay for a start. |
I returned to the garden centre at the end of the growing season, and those “water plants” were showing a lot of stress. They had not grown at all, and looked very sad with the cold nights that had started, unlike my juvenile DC.
Growing up in subtropical Zululand in South Africa, bananas just casually grew! Seeing bunches of bananas was a common, everyday sight.
My little banana is of the variety ‘Dwarf Cavendish’ Cavendish bananas from the regular full-height plants are the ones you usually see in your supermarket.
As young plants go though, you can always identify the Dwarf Cavendish by the red splotches on its leaves. They are its signature, and I recognized it right away on this plant. So I knew I could definitely hope to have a crop of bananas one day in the future - who knows when?
Next Week: An annual update
Vicki