If your banana tree lives outside, potting it allows you to bring it indoors to shelter it from cold weather and overwinter it indoors. Banana trees need at least a 15-gallon container for optimal ...

I said yes you can because I saw a banana tree growing in the corner of the main teaching greenhouse at Ohio State University – Agricultural Technical Institute.

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. Should I cut my banana trees back to the ground now? They look ...

Figs are the easiest fruit tree to grow. They thrive in poor soil, fruit when very young, and can be kept outside in the ...

Bananas have sprouted in a London back garden due to higher temperatures experts say have been caused by climate change. Caroline Williams, 65, has fruit growing on two of her 12-foot-high banana ...

Banana plants are easy to grow in any soil and aren't affected by any major insect or disease problems. Plant them in a spot that receives direct sun for at least half a day or more.

Craig Riddell's banana tree in his front garden in Deal “But I Googled it and it’s very rare for these trees to produce fruit and flower in the UK. I don’t know if that’s the result of ...

You’ll see a robust banana tree throwing its elephantine leaves up to the heavens. Below those leaves, a clump of more than 100 green bananas pokes up from the trunk like a green mitten.

My friend said the banana he ate was a little bitter and overripe, but he could taste it was a banana. There are 70 species of bananas, or Musa, in the world with over 1,000 cultivated varieties ...