Bananas, known most often as a healthy, convenient food, are also popular ornamental plants in the southern United States. Banana plants are highly prized by many as one of the most beautiful ...

Question for Dan Gill: Should I cut my banana trees back to the ground now? They look terrible. — Joe Sanders Answer: If you want your trees to flower and produce fruit, only trim off the damaged ...

Banana trees are a common feature in New Orleans-area landscapes. They are primarily grown for the tropical look they bring with their enormous leaves waving in the summer breezes. In addition to ...

Damian and Gloria Ondo are dwarfed by the huge banana trees in their beautiful garden as they walk through with their dogs Simba and Caesar. Even though the original tree Damian started with was from ...

Last spring the Peruvian government announced that they had detected a much-dreaded plant disease in the country’s Piura region. A few banana trees in a small plantation had dried up, quite ...

PHOENIX — Are you trying to become one of the lucky few to bring a blue java banana tree home? First things first: Yes, blue bananas are real. Yes, they actually do taste like vanilla ice cream. Now ...

Give your leafy friends a boost with a homemade batch of banana water for plants If that has you intrigued, read on to learn how to brew a batch to help your plants thrive. You’ll love this trick, and ...

I wrote last time about a flowering shrub called pineapple guava, a plant that produces fruit that resemble neither pineapples nor guavas. Today I’ll talk to you about banana trees that produce fruit ...