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Article: Yes, we can grow bananas
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 23, 1995
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THE VERY idea of growing a banana tree in my back garden seemed
preposterous. I had always thought of them purely as tropical
plants: their luscious, arched leaves should by all rights be
waving gently in the Trade Winds, not in an enclosed London garden.
And what of all those stories about how during the Second World War
no one had so much as seen a banana for six years or more? Such
deprivation surely could not have been caused by the whim of some
embattled bureaucrat, some directive along the lines of "Thou Shalt
Not Grow Bananas". No, far easier to believe that bananas will not
prosper in our northern climes, that they will blacken and shrivel
at the first frost, that they simply do not ...