11-01-2014 Before it all disappears!

After a few beautiful days of colored leaves, blue skies and crisp air, snow is now falling on our mountains.

Tonight or tomorrow our first frost will kill tender vegetation in the garden.

Bananas!!!!

Bananas have been a little different this year; last winter having been colder than normal with some serious frost, my Cavendish type plants did not bloom at all this year. It took them longer to grow back in spring but a good amount of rain during summer helped them acquire good height but...still no flower!

Then, late fall, surprise, surprise! My other variety, a Red Abyssinian (Musa Ensete Maurelii for those who want to be picky!) started blooming, way later than expected but welcome none the less.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves and, possibly, help you understand why I love banana plants, other than I met the woman of my life in a banana field 39 years ago in a place far away.
 :)

For more banana flowers, from the Cavendish, and more details about my love for the genus Musa,see an older post: http://thisweekinthegarden-roland.blogspot.com/2012_08_01_archive.html

Late blooming gladiolus.