Looks good Weatherman,pretty soon you'll have the rest of that grass
dug up!:lol:

Not a bad idea to pull back the mulch around the Bananas and EE's let the ground
continue to warm up and also create a well around them so you can give them more water,
the more water and fertilizer in warm weather the more growth.

Wxman, nice job.
What a nice "wall" that'll create between your house and the road...you'll be able to suntan in the buff.

Agree with Jim...pulled back mulch will allow the soil to heat.

You'll reduce that grass area every year, looks good.

Barb

Fantastic!
Show us how they grow over the Summer.
Abut the mulch, yeah, I pull away winter mulch in spring. I won't put down mulch until the Summer gets real hot (another month? 😆 )
About grass, it is horse food. If you don't have horses, kill it. I mow with "Round Up."
The wife seems to like lawns for some reason, so I make her mow. Anywhere she doesn't want to mow, I Round Up. Then I till in compost and plant expensive things.
Hence she likes to mow! 😆
Seriously, you could do a whole front yard in tropicals and tropical-looking perennials. That's what I working on for my backyard. --Erik

Very nice! 8)

Looking real good Tim!
I like what you have done with the place this year. With
some good heat you'll have yourself a good jungle.

Are you going to try and leave the basjoos out this year?

Bill

It looks like you live in a tropical zone!

Keep us updated on everything! I wonder how those Phoenix will fare? That's a tough one!

Seriously though Tim,
create some wells around your Bananas about 3' out
from the "trunks" for starters so you can direct the water to them(and fertilizer),palms,bananas etc
need lots of water in summer heat/warmth to put out maximum growth.
You will be glad you did!
It is hard to get Banans,EE's etc enough water when you pour it on mulch-
and mulch will keep your soil temps down which will slow your Nanars down.

Wow, do you plan on keepin them in ground all year round? Im in northwestern ontario, our climate is really similar. What are your night lows like right now? Here its too cold to plant basjoo ( mabey another week or 2, just unpredictible ) around 0, but usualy 2C and above at night. ALthough we had a -4C last night, the wisteria looks HORRIBLE LOL

LOL sry i should add that the yard looks GREAT!

Looking nice! What are you planning to do with the ensete come fall?

Sorry, been busy with work and life! All the palms will stay in the ground this winter and get heated boxes. The bananas will all be dug and stored in the basement. Never had any luck with storing basjoo in the ground.

I have 3 siam ruby bananas coming this week that will be going in a new bed I just made. 3 orinocos also going out front. Should get interesting!!

Basjoos need to get about 4-5" diameter trunks(base) to overwinter-
about(minimum) 3-5' of trunk height.

See post above^

You will love Siam Ruby!-
one of the prettiest bananas along with Ae Ae.

IMO

Your Sylvies are looking good, why are these pictures not on PT??

wax: looks very good... I'm glad that it's you that has to mow around all of that and not me:) As for the siam ruby, I bought a couple of those about a month ago and planted them outside. They haven't really done much so far, maybe grown an inch or so, and from what I've told, it's nearly impossible to overwinter them outside in this climate (6a) but I might still take a stab at it since I'm not really into digging plants up and hauling them inside for the winter. Are you planning to overwinter yours or bring them inside? The folks I've talked to are telling me that the siam ruby does best in 90f+ heat. I'd love to hear what your plans are with yours, since I'm still deciding what to do with mine:)