During our worst winter for years bananas have ripened in the Tropical House at the National Botanic Garden for Wales.
Now, you’d expect staff at the National Botanic Garden of Wales to know their onions. But bananas?
Horticulturist Chrissy Harcourt admits she loves the Garden’s home-grown bananas. She said:
They taste ever so slightly of apple. And it does seem a strange mix – a tropical fruit amidst all this snow.
The Musa ‘Cavendishii’ were grown in the Garden’s Tropical House and have just ripened enough to eat. There was certainly no shortage of takers around the Garden – even the birds seemed to take a liking to them!
Chrissy said:
I’m not sure that bananas are necessarily a staple of a robin’s diet but it can’t do them any harm, can it?
Find out more about events in the garden throughout the winter, including free entry on Valentines Day and St David’s Day, on their website at http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/
