Bananas offer the garden a very lush tropical feel, at present Palmland stocks two banana plants.
Possibly the most dramatic plant offered at Palmland is the Abyssinian banana – Ensete Ventricosum
It produces the most amazingly beautiful paddle like leaves up to 3m long and over half a metre wide. The leaves are a lush green with a prominent bright red spine.
It grows extremely quickly reaching a height of 1.8 – 2m in the first year. In ideal conditions it will reach 6m metres at maturity. It can be grown in a pot, it prefers full sun but will handle dappled shade.
Palmland stocks the Abyssinian banana in 200/300/400mm pots.
The second Banana stocked at Palmland is The Pink Velvet Banana – Musa Velutina.
A highly ornamental elegant Banana with a slender trunk and leaves less than a metre.
The special feature of the plant is the beautiful red bracts and yellow flowers followed by the superb Pink velvet like bananas. It grows well in a pot or the ground, in full sun or part shade.
