too bad about your bananas...........I'm sure they will bounce back soon.

Yeah They will they are already sending up new leaves the stems weren't damaged really.

They def look healthy, just enough damage to toughen them up and give them something to talk about around the grove.... 8) Good luck.....
I covered mine a few weeks back for a night when the temps dipped and I COOKED a few leaves...I'll never do that again...

Heck, my (former) musa looked like that after being INSIDE all winter 😆 😆

Nice trachy.
Do you know the name of your spike plant?

Barb

Barb, I think it's a Cordyline australis.

Thanks Bryce.
I'm starting to really like Cordylines.

Thanks Bryce.
I'm starting to really like Cordylines.

Yes you are. I remember last year you decided to try to keep yours and not throw out as an annual. Any luck? Mine are already getting ready to bloom again. So warm here this year that people left them out in their gardens and many survived and are still growing. I of course went trash picking...

Keep an eye out Bryce.............

We may be flirting with more frost Fri-Sat if we don't get some help from the clouds overnight.....

hopefully for the last time this spring!

Oh sorry, Mike...I had thought that idea was Tim's! (to dig up the cordylines and keep them indoors overwinter).

Yup, they turned out great, my Red Star Cordylines, even growing during the winter.
Thanks again for a great tip.

Post pics of yours when in bloom please.

Barb

Oh sorry, Mike...I had thought that idea was Tim's! (to dig up the cordylines and keep them indoors overwinter).

Yup, they turned out great, my Red Star Cordylines, even growing during the winter.
Thanks again for a great tip.

Post pics of yours when in bloom please.

Barb

Will do, they are such cool plants!!! And very fragrant...

Post pics of yours when in bloom please.

Barb

Here ya go , Barb...Smells so great too!!!!

Due to the warm winter, mine began growing and burst through their protection- a thick layer of mulch with pots on top of the stumps. The pots were being raised off the ground. So I unearthed them so to speak.

But there have been a few remaining nights of frost. Rather than reshovel the mulch and all that, I found that laying burlap potatoe sacks over them worked. Very quick and easy and they kept them from being singed.

Barb

I have a little Cordyline "Redstar",it has returned each year(in the Cactus enclosure)from the roots.

This year the tops did not die and even the 2 that looked dead regrew-as if from spear-pull.

The leaves have become much more slender over the years as they fight to adapt to a hostile climate.
They look like little soft red yuccas now.

Barb

I have a little Cordyline "Redstar",it has returned each year(in the Cactus enclosure)from the roots.

This year the tops did not die and even the 2 that looked dead regrew-as if from spear-pull.

The leaves have become much more slender over the years as they fight to adapt to a hostile climate.
They look like little soft red yuccas now.

They are beautiful. You see them all over The British Isles and parts of coastal Europe.