in witte pot The Musa basjoo is the most hardy banana plant that can tolerate temperatures down to -7C. The roots are even stronger, they can tolerate -15C/-20C (outdoors). It is also the best banana plant to plant out in your garden.

It grows fairly fast and can grow up to 400 cm high in the Netherlands, with leaves as long as 200 cm. A warm summer can also produce a lotus flower on which small bananas can grow. Unfortunately, in almost all cases they are too small to eat, but it really gives the feeling of the tropics in our Dutch backyard.

If you want to buy a hardy banana plant, we recommend the Musa basjoo, it's a real topper.

The Musa basjoo is a fast grower but stops growing below -14C.

We therefore recommend that you keep cuttings of 35 cm indoors until the end of April/May, so that they can grow well, and then plant them out. Then you have a beautiful large banana plant in the summer months.

Winter protection:
The roots of the Musa basjoo are very hardy, sometimes it is even said that they can have minus 20 degrees (in open ground).
We recommend to protect the Musa basjoo!
You can do this by packing the trunk in the colder months.

Protecting the Musa basjoo in winter is how you do it:
1. First, remove all the leaves of the Musa basjoo.
2. Chop the trunk at the desired height (1 metre high).
3. Chicken wire netting around the trunk and top it up with hay.
4. Old leaves on the ground near the Musa basjoo.
5. Then wrap him up with a fleece or jute.

If the strain was well enough protected during the winter months, the Musa basjoo will grow out of it again!
If the trunk has not or not well protected, the Musa basjoo will turn into a goo-like substance. Attention: remove the rotten parts and then the Musa basjoo will come out of the ground again later!

The Musa basjoo is only winter hardy in open ground. In a pot it must hibernate frost-free.The Musa basjoo is the most hardy banana plant that can tolerate temperatures down to -7C. The roots are even stronger, they can tolerate -15C/-20C (outdoors). It is also the best banana plant to plant out in your garden.

It grows fairly fast and can grow up to 400 cm high in the Netherlands, with leaves as long as 200 cm. A warm summer can also produce a lotus flower on which small bananas can grow. Unfortunately, in almost all cases they are too small to eat, but it really gives the feeling of the tropics in our Dutch backyard.

If you want to buy a hardy banana plant, we recommend the Musa basjoo, it's a real topper.

The Musa basjoo is a fast grower but stops growing below -14C.

We therefore recommend that you keep cuttings of 35 cm indoors until the end of April/May, so that they can grow well, and then plant them out. Then you have a beautiful large banana plant in the summer months.

Winter protection:
The roots of the Musa basjoo are very hardy, sometimes it is even said that they can have minus 20 degrees (in open ground).
We recommend to protect the Musa basjoo!
You can do this by packing the trunk in the colder months.

Protecting the Musa basjoo in winter is how you do it:
1. First, remove all the leaves of the Musa basjoo.
2. Chop the trunk at the desired height (1 metre high).
3. Chicken wire netting around the trunk and top it up with hay.
4. Old leaves on the ground near the Musa basjoo.
5. Then wrap him up with a fleece or jute.

If the strain was well enough protected during the winter months, the Musa basjoo will grow out of it again!
If the trunk has not or not well protected, the Musa basjoo will turn into a goo-like substance. Attention: remove the rotten parts and then the Musa basjoo will come out of the ground again later!

The Musa basjoo is only winter hardy in open ground. In a pot it must hibernate frost-free.