The hardy banana (Musa basjoo) is a different species than the tropical bananas we're used to (Musa x paradisiaca). It still needs some extra care in our climate; hardy bananas have survived ...

Horticulturists at a garden in Harrogate have celebrated the blooming for the first time ever of a 15ft (4.5m) banana plant. The Musa Basjoo banana plant has flowered at RHS Garden Harlow Carr. The ...

Why grow a banana tree in your garden? Hmm, because gardeners in Toronto can’t? No, the real reason we like to do it is that it gives the garden such a lush tropical, desert-island look. Musa basjoo ...

The plant has flowered for the first time since it was acquired in 2019 Horticulturists at a garden in Harrogate have celebrated the blooming for the first time ever of a 15ft (4.5m) banana plant. The ...