in witte pot The best banana plant to make your garden tropical, as the stem can tolerate cold down to -7C. With the roots in the open ground, it can survive at -15C.

It grows fairly quickly and can grow up to 400cm tall in the Netherlands, with leaves as long as 200cm. During a warm summer, it can also develop 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.

Would you like to buy a hardy banana plant? Then we recommend the Musa basjoo, it's a real winner.

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

We therefore recommend that you keep the 35 cm cuttings indoors until the end of April/May, so they can grow well, and then plant them out. Then you will have a nice big 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 the open ground)
We recommend to protect the Musa basjoo though!
You can do this by wrapping the trunk in the colder months.

You can protect the Musa basjoo in the winter like this:
1. First, remove all the leaves from the Musa basjoo.
2. You cut the trunk to the desired height (1 meter high).
3. Chicken wire around the trunk and fill it with hay.
4. Old leaves over the ground near the Musa basjoo.
5. Then wrap it with fleece or burlap.

If the trunk was protected well enough during the winter months, the Musa basjoo will continue to grow from there!
If the trunk was not protected or not protected well, the Musa basjoo will turn into a gooey substance. Please note: remove the rotten parts and then the Musa basjoo will emerge from the ground again later!

The Musa basjoo is only hardy in the open ground. In a pot, it should be overwintered frost-free.The best banana plant to make your garden tropical, as the stem can tolerate cold down to -7C. With the roots in the open ground, it can survive at -15C.

It grows fairly quickly and can grow up to 400cm tall in the Netherlands, with leaves as long as 200cm. During a warm summer, it can also develop 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.

Would you like to buy a hardy banana plant? Then we recommend the Musa basjoo, it's a real winner.

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

We therefore recommend that you keep the 35 cm cuttings indoors until the end of April/May, so they can grow well, and then plant them out. Then you will have a nice big 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 the open ground)
We recommend to protect the Musa basjoo though!
You can do this by wrapping the trunk in the colder months.

You can protect the Musa basjoo in the winter like this:
1. First, remove all the leaves from the Musa basjoo.
2. You cut the trunk to the desired height (1 meter high).
3. Chicken wire around the trunk and fill it with hay.
4. Old leaves over the ground near the Musa basjoo.
5. Then wrap it with fleece or burlap.

If the trunk was protected well enough during the winter months, the Musa basjoo will continue to grow from there!
If the trunk was not protected or not protected well, the Musa basjoo will turn into a gooey substance. Please note: remove the rotten parts and then the Musa basjoo will emerge from the ground again later!

The Musa basjoo is only hardy in the open ground. In a pot, it should be overwintered frost-free.