PlantFiles: Banana
Musa 'Bordelon'

Ordered three seedlings of this banana this spring from Brian Williams at Brian's Botanicals and they arrived in great shape all about a foot or so high. I potted all three of them initially in one 15 gallon pot to grow in until it was warm enough to put them in the ground outside. Well, I procrastinated and didn't get them into the ground untill late May/early June of this year. In the bed I planted them in I tilled in some composted cow manure/ topsoil mix and added some potash and Osmocote to the soil. All I can say is "Wow!", in little over a month they had grown 10' high and are currently 20' tall at the tip of the tallest leaf (Has formed a massive clump of trees probably 4'x4' square). These are beautiful banana's with maroon undersides and splotches on the top of the leaf similiar to the blood-leaf banana. So far they have survived temperature drops right at freezing with no die back and would probably be hardy to zone 7 or higher with the proper protection. And I thought planting them in part shade on the NE corner of my house would stunt their growth...LOL!