Bananas before:
Bananas after:
It’s been a cold week here at the Lizard Lounge, with several nights of freezing temperatures. As far as the effects of those meteorological conditions on some of the more tropical flora, I’ll let the photos above speak for themselves.
Of course, if you’re a follower of “Live from the Lizard Lounge”, you know that all of these bananas were freebies, offspring of parent plants that were already in residence when I moved in. Still, it hurts…
The good news is that, at this point, it hasn’t gotten below 30 here so loss of leaf only makes this damage fairly superficial. Once temperatures warm up sufficiently, I’ll begin to see new leaves spiraling up out of the top of the stalk. (You can actually see that in action in the “before” picture above.) It would take temperatures in the upper 20s to actually kill a banana plant to the ground; even then, as long as temperatures don’t fall much lower than that, the underground rhizome will still survive and put back out when temperatures warm up sufficiently.
Which I’m all in favor of. Now would be good…
January 10, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I heard on the grapevine that Disney had some snow this week…..
January 18, 2010 at 9:36 pm
[...] of frigid temps we had around here the past couple of weeks. I’m sorry to report that the damage to the bananas originally discussed actually got worse. At this point, there’s nary a bit of green peeking [...]
July 18, 2010 at 3:23 pm
[...] has also been an inordinate amount of loss amongst the flora here on the grounds of the Lounge. The unusual cold snap we experienced here in Central Florida this past winter took with it a goodly number of the plants that I’ve tended and nurtured over the years, many [...]
January 4, 2012 at 10:01 pm
[...] Live from the Lizard Lounge about my flora, you know that I’m partial to my banana plants and fear the dreaded cold snaps we’ve been experiencing here in Central Florida the past few years. Bananas are not very cold [...]