A banana plant looks like a tree, but it is not a true tree. It is a giant herb, and what seems like a trunk is mostly ...

During summer and fall, we all enjoy a plethora of fruits from our home gardens and from the local farmers market. Each fruit starts with a flower. Then four separate events will take place in ...

If you're lucky enough to live in a tropical clime, you might have experimented with growing fruit like bananas. These trees find it trickier to produce fruit in colder regions, so it's worth taking ...

This time of year, I get a lot of questions about growing banana plants — how to prepare them for winter, how to overwinter them, and how to get them to survive long term in North Texas landscapes.

Some of you look at the tattered brown leaves of your banana in December and long for banana pudding made with your own bananas. Some of you long for the day when all you had to do was whack your ...