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Ed Mahmoud wrote:gboudx wrote:Ed Mahmoud wrote:Almost that time of year when a young boys fancy turns from tropical cyclones to missed work and playing with the kids in a SE Texas freezing rain/sleet party!
And jasons saying, "nooooo, not my banana trees!!!!"
The banana trees look like they die after a frost, but the roots survive and new lush green foliage comes back each Spring.
I noticed the banana trees around Popo's now destroyed trailer in Jamaica Beach actually had fruit on them back on July 4th, indicative of a lack of a hard freeze the previous winter. [/quote]
I imagine the trailers floating and banging around, and the salt water, has probably done in the bananas around Popo's Jamaica Beach trailer. The SE Texas bananas do not look like supermarket bananas, and if they were flavorful, I suspect they'd be on sale at H-E-B and Kroger. Pretty sure the lush, tropical appearing foliage, that allows our little part of the Mid-Latitudes to look a little tropical (along with cold tolerant palm species like the Washingtonias and Texas native sabals) is why they are popular around here. In my opinion, banana plants tend to grow too fast in my neighborhood, probably due to lawn watering, and look kind of messy. The fruiting bananas I saw in Jamaica Beach, which probably weren't watered, were more modest looking.
BTW, Billings, MT has issued a civil emergency statement, asking residents to stay off the roads due to the near blizzard conditions.
Edit to try to fix format. If this doesn't work, I give up.
