Musa Basjoo is a spectacular and flamboyant plant that offers a tropical look for climates that are nowhere near the Equator, climates like the Pacific Northwest even. It’s actually a banana tree.

Early in the fall, Linda, who gardens with her husband Glenn in Langford, sent me an email with several photos: “I wanted to show you our banana plant that has produced bananas. We planted it in the ...

When we think of banana trees, places like the Caribbean come to mind. But Lucie Hérard has managed to turn that image on its head by growing them in her east-end Montreal yard, year round. She said ...