Musa Basjoo is a spectacular and flamboyant plant that offers a tropical look for climates that are nowhere near the Equator, climates like the Pacific Northwest even. It’s actually a banana tree.

Early in the fall, Linda, who gardens with her husband Glenn in Langford, sent me an email with several photos: “I wanted to show you our banana plant that has produced bananas. We planted it in the ...

The Japanese fibre banana, Musa basjoo, can thrive in surprisingly cold temperatures We all have our own annual milestones that coax us out of horticultural hibernation, kicking off a flurry of plans ...