If you're lucky enough to live in a tropical clime, you might have experimented with growing fruit like bananas. These trees find it trickier to produce fruit in colder regions, so it's worth taking ...

Growing banana plants in containers is a rewarding way to enjoy lush tropical foliage, at home, especially if you don’t have ...

Native to the steamy rainforests of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, banana trees have been cultivating their dramatic presence for thousands of years (archaeological evidence suggests humans ...

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 ...

Q: About 15-20 years ago my son gave my husband a banana tree that was about 3 feet tall. It sat outside in the hot sun in the summer and in the low 20s in the winter. We live in the Tanque Verde area ...

Banana trees are a common feature in New Orleans area landscapes. They are primarily grown for the tropical look they bring with their enormous leaves waving in the summer breezes. SUSAN POAG / THE ...

No plant can match the hardy banana (Musa basjoo) when it comes to adding a tropical flair to your garden. With 12-foot-long leaves, these Japanese natives are actually herbaceous perennials. In the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- David Flynn lives on the hill just off the Greenbelt with a green thumb and beautiful green-leaved banana trees that are bearing fruit in Egbertville this year. Flynn says the ...