Very nice. Kinda wished I lived out in BC.

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Phil
Thanks for the information how to post the pictures.

Not sure why I could not see your brother's pictures.

i took Phils advice and used sighost to host the pics of my brothers gardens. they were big files so i could only post one at a time. i'm not a paying member of sighost, therefore I can only upload one or two pics max. Everytime i want to post new pics here i have to delete the old ones.
make sense?
anyway here are some pics of my garden in the beaches, Toronto

Very nice pictures! I see that you have some Bamboos. What varieties are they and what else have you permanently planted in your garden?

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thanks Phil
i want to plant some hardy bamboos, but have none yet
Humber Nurseries has a bunch but are rather expensive
what you see in my pics are Miscanthus floridulus giganteum or Giant Chinese Silver Grass
they grew to over 12' this summer and are in full bloom right now
it's very hardy and sometimes known as Chinese Bamboo Grass
I pruned off some of the lower leaves to give it a bamboo look
I dug up my Cavendish musa and brought it indoors for the winter and wrapped the musa basjoo on the weekend
the following pic is the basjoo with its winter sweater on..haha

Very Nice, I especially like the burlap sweater. Do you leave your Basjoo like that all winter or do you cut of the leaves and further cover it. Also, did you spray it with a fungicide?
The grasses are really nice and I will definitely try Giant Chinese Silver Grass next spring.

Thanks for the pictures and keep them coming.

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"Do you leave your Basjoo like that all winter or do you cut of the leaves and further cover it"

this is my first year growing musa plants
i bought the basjoo in May (about 16" tall) from Canadian Tire and planted it directly in the garden.
the pic above has 3 batts of pink insulation wrapped around the trunk, and then the burlap around the insulation. It now has a plastic tent around it so the insulation does not get soaked.
I have hammered four wooden stakes into the ground around the trunk. I intend on wrapping burlap around these stakes and filling the gap between the trunk and said burlap with straw.

I did NOT use a fungicide and hope that was not a big mistake.

I am leaving the leaves as is until a good freeze or snow kills them off. I'll then cut them back, (possibly use a fungicide then) and cover the entire plant and its box with plastic.

I bought my first clump of Miscanthus floridulus at Humber Nurseries in the spring and it cost me $22 for a 10" pot. I later found more at my local Dominion Store garden center for $16 ea.
For some reason the Dominion plants did much better (grew twice as tall) as the more expensive Humber purchase.
Humber is GREAT for selection, but their prices and quality of some plants are a bit questionable.

This is a good site to view regarding winter protection of Hardy Banana Plants.
http://www.hardytropicals.com/Bananas.htm

They state that they lose more Bananas over wintering from fungus than the cold. However, I would probably leave it for this year. It's your call. Based on my experience last year, I will to wait for the first good frost to build my cage similar to the one outlined on the above website. It worked well last year but I did lose the stalk because of the few very cold days nights last year. -24C/-11F.
I totally agree with you regarding Humber good selection but the quality is suspect at times along with their prices.

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me wrapping the trunk with insulation, before covering with burlap

I read all I could about the info you gave PhilMusa and it was very good. I like how you winter your plants and i think thats how I would like to try mine. What I would like to know is will this work where I live in Vancover B.C.The frist few years of wraping my tree worked just fine at one point my trees a clump of them got to 18 feet.However the last 4 years I have lost to fungus doing the same method and i'm sick of losing them.They do come back but never that tall because they have to start all over.If it would work the way you do them that would be to cool.Could you or someone let me know.Thanks

Hi Guys,

I haven't burlaped mine yet but hop to do it this weekend. As Phil mentioned will you not cut the Branches off?

I do have a question for you guys... I brought in my 4 fo my pups and two of them appear to be dieing back. I'm hoping it's just in shock. Do you have any advise?

Thanks GioGio

here is the Pic. of my Musa taken in September. http://giogio17.blogspot.com