You can't eat the fruit, but you can add the tropics to your yard with a banana plant

You can't eat the fruit, but you can add the tropics to your yard with a banana plant | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

There is nothing that can add a touch of the tropics to the backyard, porch, patio or pool than the coarse-textured foliage offered by bananas, and the Japanese fiber banana is one that almost anyone can grow.

I recently had the opportunity to see a wonderful presentation shot mostly in northeastern locations like New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York.

Though many of the wonderful homes featured cottage gardens and were at houses dating back to the early 1800s, I could not help but notice the use of bananas either in the landscape or in containers. This is certainly appropriate because our ancestors of the Victorian period certainly placed importance on the role of tropical foliage like bananas, elephant ears and castor beans. Too bad they did not have access to the Japanese fiber banana.