In early June 2008, I dropped off 5 plants for a customer to put around her pool. She lives out at Folly Beach, just south of Charleston and 8 miles from me on James Island. I shot these pics yesterday.
She is a first time banana grower so I would get emails like:
"My plants look like hell(in winter)"
"The leaves are looking funny( a flag leaf had popped up)"
then it was "I got Bananas!"
Finally, it was "Can I cut that 'pod' off yet?"
Anyway, when I stopped by, she had a broken hip and was house ridden and could holler at me from a window. A big rack of Ice Creams and a big rack of Saba have grown.
one ice cream:
and one saba I believe.
The yard guy had tied them up from leaning and trimmed the dead leaves so they just looked great.
Sometimes I have to double check and see if we are really just in zone 8!