Article: Homegrown bananas? Popular ornamental plants are suddenly bearing fruit.

Article: Banana trees add flavor to tropical ...
The Virginian Pilot;  October 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... been harvested or are ripening on six banana trees in his Woodhurst backyard in Virginia ... with. A friend gave Chip his first banana trees several years before that, but he did ... add to the ambience. When Chip's banana trees bear fruit, they are about 3 years ...

Article: Travel: Bananas at dawn; Rusty noses, banana trees ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  September 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... rusty nose, beneath the bananaless banana trees. All around, women with eyebrows like ... Which brings me to the bananaless banana trees, for the first thing I asked Joanne ... the trees down La Ramblas were. ''Banana trees,'' she said. ''But they have no ...

Article: BACKYARD GARDEN GOES JUNGLE COUPLE GROW ELEPHANT EARS, ...
Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current);  September 9, 2009 ;     628 words ... ... varieties of canna trees, five varieties of banana trees and a bevy of individual tropical plants ... the summer. One of the varieties of banana trees has reached 20 feet in height, and ... Only a few of his hybrid perennial banana trees can withstand frost and cold winter ...

Article: City allows banana trees at community gardens
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  October 9, 2009 ;     595 words ... ... of any of the city's 10 community gardens from planting banana trees. Plot-holders are not allowed to plant "drug plants ... Nathan Wong, the city's community garden coordinator. Banana trees are allowed because they don't grow as big as mango trees ...

A man looks at his banana trees destroyed by last week's ...
Getty Images;  October 15, 2007 ;     230 words ...THONY BELIZAIRE Getty Images 10-15-2007 A man looks at his banana trees destroyed by last week's flood ... Full Size JPG (1402 KB) A man looks at his banana trees destroyed by last week's flood in Cabaret, 35km north of Port ...

Barara Musselman's banana trees in her yard are bearing ...
KRT Photos;  December 26, 2002 ;     270 words ... ... HOME-GA-BANANAS KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD THOMASON/COLUMBUS LEDGER-ENQUIRER (December 26) Barara Musselman's banana trees in her yard are bearing fruit. (lde) 2002 Document Name|KRTS HOME-GA-BANANAS 1 CO ...

Article: Modern and exotic hideaway Yes, we have no bananas - well not ...
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  July 20, 2007 ;     644 words ... ... a wonderful sheltered garden which contains six feet high banana trees, so there is always hope in these times of alleged global ... and a variety of flourishing exotic plants including those banana trees. John Couch (01803 296500) is asking pounds795,000.