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 ...

If you have a single clump you can plant them closer. Keep the banana plants moist but not too wet in the early days or they may rot.Maintaining the patchThe most common cause of banana plant death is ...

This tropical dwarf tree can thrive indoors all year long as long as you give it enough humidity and sunlight. It'll even produce fruit after a few years.

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 ...

Yes, that's a banana tree growing in Hylton Hobday's Hampden Twp. front yard. Hylton Hobday's house would blend into Hampden Twp. suburbia if it weren't for his banana tree in the front yard... And ...

A banana plant looks like a tree, but it is not a true tree. It is a giant herb, and what seems like a trunk is mostly ...

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 ...