With ideal growing conditions, you can cultivate a delicious banana tree of your own. Growing a banana tree is an exciting venture that offers both visual charm and delicious fruit. While most banana ...

What is a good fertilizer for my banana tree? My tree is three years old, but has never produced fruit. Why is this and what can I do to help it produce bananas? There is a fertilizer specifically ...

Q: About 15-20 years ago my son gave my husband a banana tree that was about 3 feet tall. It sat outside in the hot sun in the summer and in the low 20s in the winter. We live in the Tanque Verde area ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For a tropical plant, the banana tree is amazingly at home in the Los ...

There seems to be something about gardeners, some fatal flaw or linked gene that predisposes all of us to insist on growing things we just shouldn’t try to grow. If the wild type of a plant has white ...

A three-meter tall banana tree in Ha Tinh Province has produced a two-meter bunch with over 350 hands. Dam Thi Loan, a resident in Son Hong Commune, Huong Son District, said her family had to use ...

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 terrible ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A man fed up with a private road in poor condition near his southwest Florida business has a novel solution: plant a banana tree in a pothole to warn motorists away. Last week, ...