Sunday 23 September 2007

Coming Soon

Saturday 1 September 2007

Its been a long wait.....

but at last our Banana has flowered. I don't know if it will show fruit but apparently to fruit properly it needs a male and a female flower to cross pollinate and they tend to flower at different times of the year (not very clever is it, could be the fruit equivalent of a panda).

The variety of banana is the Musa Basjoo which is not edible, but one of the hardiest varieties, therefore good for trying in UK gardens.

Its now about 15 feet tall and frost will destroy the plant down to the ground (but roots survive) if not wrapped. Its been in the ground for about 5 years now and last year I had to wrap it with the aid of a very wobbly step ladder.



More photos can be found on my Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/waveydavey001/

I'm using ShoZu now on my N95 so by the time I'd got in from the Garden my photos taken on the Nokia were already on Flickr. Brilliant.