Yesterday on the radio show I had Steve Guiness who enjoys playing around with tropical plants. He takes people on gardening trips to the South American continent, so he was the perfect person to ask about my hardy bananas and how to prune them. I have now neatened them up by taking all the dead leaves off, but leaving the stems:
The Tidy Bananas
Apparently if you lop the top off the stems, you can tear off the growth area. Mine were rotted though so I did take those peices off. I think the leaves come out from the central area.
You can listen to the radio show about tropical plants at: http://radiosandysprings.com/showpages/mastergardener.php and look for February 7th.
After the show we talked about bamboo which is quite commonly grown in Georgia. Mine is a golden bamboo and restricted between a concrete drainage channel and the concrete that surrounds the pool. It does try to run over to greet the bananas though, and I had to dig a few runners out of the ground. I don’t want to put them into the compost, so they will join the group of plants that I leave to dehydrate and then put into bags for the city recycling crew.
Rampant Golden Bamboo - A lovely plant though
Tags: bamboo, hardy banana
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