PLace to buy bananas in Pensacola

modenacart · 02-11-2008, 06:25 PM

I am on a busness trip to Pensacola and sinces it FL i suspect there are good places to buy bananas. Does anyone know of them?

Thanks

MediaHound · 02-11-2008, 06:42 PM

Don't know about Pensacola but if you were down south I could suggest a couple.

tophersmith · 02-11-2008, 07:24 PM

[quote=modenacart;29231]I am on a busness trip to Pensacola and sinces it FL i suspect there are good places to buy bananas. Does anyone know of them?

Thanks[/QUOTe

If you have a car head towards Navarre there are a ton of nurseries on both sides of the road.

john_ny · 02-11-2008, 08:04 PM

Don't know where Navarre is, but not all of Florida is steamy. Pensacola is in the panhandle, near Mobile. It's not exactly tropical. I was in flight school, there, many years ago, and we had enough snow to build a snowman.

bigdog · 02-12-2008, 12:04 AM

It's definitely plenty steamy in Pensacola! My grandmother lives there, and I try to get down there at least once a year to visit. It's a zone 8b in the 'burbs, and zone 9a in Gulf Breeze and on Pensacola Beach (Navarre is just down the road to the west of the beach). There are a bunch of nurseries down there, one is called Floral Tree Gardens and it is pretty big. Don't know about bananas though, but they have palms. Olive Road Nursery is run by an older gentleman, and he has a few ornamental varieties at his place like Musa velutina and such. He also has a huge mat of Brazilians around his house, and he might dig you a pup if you chat with him for a while (but he'll still charge you).

Another great nursery down there for some really rare and unusual palms is the Palm Source. I picked up a 7 gallon Phoenix theophrastii, a 3 gallon Guihaia argyrata, a 5 gallon Butia yatay, 1 gallon Trithrinax campestris, and a few others there. I don't recall bananas there, but I could be wrong. You're best off just looking through the yellow pages and calling around.

tophersmith · 02-12-2008, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by john_ny

Don't know where Navarre is, but not all of Florida is steamy. Pensacola is in the panhandle, near Mobile. It's not exactly tropical. I was in flight school, there, many years ago, and we had enough snow to build a snowman.

John,

Ok so you were a Navy man surely you knew where the Airforce Special Opts base was. If you were to drive it you would have to pass right through Navarre. Granted the pan ahndle is only Zone 8 but I have been able to find many tropicals there. Potters Nursery is a little out of the way but there proces cannot be beat.

modenacart · 02-12-2008, 05:22 PM

It looks like I am not going to be making it around town anyways. Thanks for the info though.

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