Yes We Have No Bananas!

Yeah, I know. It's a bad pun. But I like bad puns.

We do have bananas as it turns out - but they are still in the form of trees. Actually, banana trees aren't really trees but I'm not going to get into the plant lesson at the moment. :)

Someone Bill works with gave us some banana sprouts last fall. They are temperamental, but they will grow up here with the right kind of care. Each fall, the plants start making little sprouts at the bottom and those need to be cut off and planted in a pot full of dirt, and brought inside to survive the winter. We get too much cold weather to just leave them outside. We had 6, we are now down to three because three of them didn't get brought inside in time and they froze - it wasn't even below freezing but right at 32 degrees, but they keep water inside and it doesn't take much for it to be too cold for them.

There are two in this picture, one is small and is behind the tall one.


This is the third one. It's next to the pink pot that holds my prickly pear - which is also coming out of winter dormancy. The person we got them from said that he always plants his on April 15 and not before. They need lots of water, even in winter dormancy. They will produce bananas, and then at the end of the summer they will make more little sprouts and then these will die. We'll see how it turns out. Basically, they just need to be planted and then watered frequently. They have a habit that I've discovered - all that water is drawn up into the leaves like most plants, but then they leak. I keep having to clean up small puddles, which are NOT dog related for a change.



My redbud tree. This is the 3rd year for it, it has gotten taller but this variety won't be a huge tree. But it survived the winter just fine, and it started budding out this week. Leaves will be showing up soon.

A closer shot.

The new fence that the neighbor installed. You can see a ladder on the side of the picture, it's been there for over a week now. I think that her fence is through, the fence installers must have forgotten about it. If they don't remember, it probably won't stay there long with all the traffic we now get behind us because of the housing being built.

We actually preferred the view before the house construction - the cow pasture was much quieter and more private. Just the occasional moo!