I have always lived in a cold zone – the zone 5 growing area. This is where we grow apples and pears, and the tulips and daffodils get a lot more than 5 weeks of cold. It is where we buy oranges, lemons and bananas in the grocery store. Oh so many years ago we visited grandma and grandpa when they lived south of Orlando. That was before Disney, when there were groves of orange trees instead of hordes of people. I learned about the smell of orange blossoms and growing oranges on trees.
One of the surprises of spending winters in zone 25 are the bananas growing next to my kitchen window and in the botanical gardens. The banana plants by my window haven’t produced yet but there are lots of bananas growing in the Naples Botanical Gardens. Click on a photo to get an up-close view and to view the third image that for some reason isn’t showing the gallery.
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No chance of that happening here! 🙂
I would love to just go outside to pick a banana to eat.
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Bananas are such a popular fruit, but I wonder how many people know what the banana palm looks like. Great pics, Pat. Glad you’re enjoying being in the warmer zone for a while. 🙂
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I was most surprised by the flower and how the banana seeds grow out of it. Amazing – and they taste so good!
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Such an exotic flower for a fruit we think of so commonplace and ordinary !
Fantastic colours .
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“bananas growing
next to my kitchen window…”
that could be the beginning
of a poem or a novel …
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I go bananas for bananas too Pat, we have one for breakfast every day.
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banana
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They are such exquisite plants. I love the colors and shapes in the second photo. And for what it’s worth, the third photo is showing up in the gallery and once I click to view larger. Wonder if you’re experiencing a caching issue.
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