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tropicalEye has contributed to 13 posts out of 2512 total posts
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20 Most recent posts:
General Discussions. »
New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Oct 19, 2007 11:18 AM
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awesome! I would love to see a 12ft banana tree growing outside in Toronto!! I also got into bamboo this year I found some hardy "golden" bamboo from a guy off craigslist I have two clumps planted outside on my land in Haliburton..hoping they will make it through the winter. They are both about 2-3ft tall. I have a nice big clump in a pot at my place in Toronto. I just moved it inside for the winter. It is over 7ft and cost me $50. The two smaller ones were $15/ea. I still have my dwarf cavendish and grow a couple monster "bird of paradise" in pots.
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Oct 19, 2007 09:21 AM
(Total replies: 37)
GioGio & Phil are you still visiting this forum? how are your banana trees? have they survived the past couple Toronto winters? what else are you growing now?
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Oct 14, 2005 09:11 AM
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me wrapping the trunk with insulation, before covering with burlap 
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Oct 13, 2005 05:49 PM
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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.
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Oct 11, 2005 04:27 PM
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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 
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Oct 8, 2005 12:42 AM
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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  
Palm tree growing tips- How to grow plam trees. »
Palms for Zone 5 Oct 8, 2005 12:34 AM
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"Have you seen any of the Palms you have listed for sale in Ontario?" have you been to Humber Nursery Gio...they have palms. i was there a couple days ago and they are $142.99 for a palm maybe a foot tall i bought some hardy cacti for $20ea. Humber is the best Nursery i've been to in Ontario for selection..by far
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Sep 27, 2005 11:53 PM
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Edited by tropicalEye on Oct 8, 2005 at 12:36 AM
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Sep 27, 2005 11:50 PM
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Edited by tropicalEye on Oct 8, 2005 at 12:36 AM
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Sep 26, 2005 05:59 PM
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wow! check out some of the plants this guy in eastern Ontario is growing http://www.hardypalm.com/photos/ladouceur/album.php
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Sep 24, 2005 07:11 PM
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i think i'll bring the "cavendish" in for the winter the pic of Alocasia was just an example i found on the net not a pic of the ones i grew...sorry for any confusion the following is a pic of my brother in his backyard (Cobble Hill, BC) he planted his musa basjoo collection 3 years ago http://www.sighost.us/members/tropicalEye/rj_bananas.jpg
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New Thread on....New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Sep 22, 2005 11:26 PM
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nice musa plants whinewine ! great advice on winter protection too. am i crazy to risk leaving the cavendish in the ground over the winter!? i'm really interested in pushing the limits and will never know if it could survive unless i try last summer i grew some really big and beautiful alocasia example: http://mgonline.com/alocasiagigantum03.jpg and plan on growing them again next summer too i'm a big fan of ornamental grasses and euphorbias are probably my favourite plant to collect gardening is such an addictive hobby 
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New Owner of a Musa Basjoo Sep 21, 2005 09:54 PM
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Hi GioGio & Phil I too live in Toronto (beaches area). This spring I purchased 2 musa plants from area nurseries A musa basjoo from a Canadian Tire garden center for $15. It was roughly 16 inches when i bought it (early June), and now stands about 7 feet ! I am so impressed by the amount of growth this plant has put on in less than four months. The other musa I have is about 3 feet high and was purchased at Humber Nurseries http://www.gardencentre.com/catalogue/catalogue.htm i believe it is a "dwarf cavendish" but could be wrong. It was also $15 and now has 3 pups and a trunk about 6-8 inches in diameter! They are so beautiful i hate for this summer to end. My brother lives on Vancouver Island and has about a dozen musa in his yard, some 20 feet in height. He wraps them with insulation and burlap and checks on them over the winter. He has suggested to me that I do the same. I'll likely do this sometime in October. Then, when the leaves freeze and die i'll cut them back and mulch the trunk with as many leaves i can get my hands on. I'm going to cut the pups off soon and attempt to grow new parent plants. Then leave both bananas in the ground over the winter. Best of luck with yours, hopefully we'll have a mild winter. If anyone would care to swap pics of our musa plants cowboy.bones@gmail.com I too want to grow hardy bamboos Humber Nursery has a good amount to choose from, however they are pricey ($90 - $130) I've found some at a local store and am debating whether to buy it now and chance it surviving the winter. Another plant i am growing this year for the first time is miscanthus floridulus "giganteum" example: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Flowers/Perenls/miscanth.htm It now stands about 10 feet or more with the plumes just beginning to emerge. i highly recommend this grass for a tropical feel. I've trimmed off some of the lower leaves and the stalks are now more visible and bamboo looking. Hardy palms or cycads would be fantastic! |
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