How do you winterize your banana trees? Such a great garden. The hard work you put in shows. Can’t wait to see what you have planned for next year.

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Absolutely beautiful!

The variegated Canna is called Cleopatra Canna. Your garden is beautiful.

So what do you do in winter season??

Wow, incredible job! A tropical garden in Chicago suburbs is lot of works of dig, replant, and restore the pots in the garage. I'm gardening in the Chicago suburbs too, You really a great gardener! Love your garden very much. A new subscriber here!

Show us your ways! Show the over-winter process

What do you do with your bananas over the winter? Do you just cut them back and put mulch on top? I’m in Naperville and really impressed with your paradise!

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Hello. Illinois has a range of hardiness zones. Which grow zone are you in? Thanks

You identified everything but the one I wanted to know what it was.

Wow!! What a beautiful looking tropical setting. I absolutely luv your design concept.

Please keep posting your amazing work!

I have these Cleopatra, my favorites! I love the foliage as much as the blooms!

OMG!!!! Thanks for sharing your yard gives me so much joy!!!

Amazing

Absolutely beautiful!

Such an amazing garden! We’re also out in the Chicago suburbs and we’ve tried planting some tropical plants but they’re a lot of work!

What a great garden! Envious

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I love this...I have one very similar. The inpatients underneath (and shaded) worked well under my Canna's and Elephant ears. But it is a pain to dig them up to save them in fall...as I get older. The other problem is since they are tropical, they do not start to really grow well until June or so (the ground has to warm up enough) and I am too lazy to start them in separate pots.

Have you tried eating one of the black bananas to see if it has a flavor?

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Wow I am in southwest suburbs of Chicago and order a couple bananas every year. I see a lot of shoots this year and am going to try to overwinter. I was feeling like it might be a lost cause but you inspired me. You’d garden looks smazing

Well done sir ! Look into a Thailand Giant elephant ear . They get really huge ! I'm pretty sure they're the biggest ones out there in the world.

Looks amazing!! Do the elephant ears survive the winters there?

Beautiful work! The purple decorative bananas are gorgeous. I did not dig out some of the canna tubers last winter (North Chicago/SE Evanston area, by the lake) and the three clumps made it through winter and came back. So did two clumps of purple hearts wandering jew (Setcreassa Pallida). Disclosure: I piled a lot of the fall leaves on top of these plants in the flower bed, and the entire flower bed faces south - full sun exposure. I was a bit shocked to see those come back, and both types of plants are doing better than previous years. Ironically, I lost a few cold-hardy perennials, including a Japanese maple that was in a large container. Last winter was fairly mild though, surely that helped those two tropicals hang on to dear life 'til the hot weather came back. Has anyone else found themselves being able to "overwinter" tropicals outside through Chicago winters?

What suburb? Ty

Thats AWESOME. I can't get my basjoo to survive the winters.

I live in downstate Illinois and I find it hard saving my plants during the winter months..

Great garden! What is the gray cut-leaf foliage plant behind the elephant ears? Does it overwinter? Are you zone 6? Would love to hear mor3 about how you overwinter your tropical plants.

You mentioned poor soil. Isn't the soil in the NW suburbs "rich" since it used to be fertile farmland? What is your soil time?

Simply stunning. Well done.

Elephants ears are native to the Midwest are they not?

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That variegated-canna is gorgeous

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Wow 🤩 love it! New subscriber. Greetings from Belmont area.

grazie mille maestro. is beautiful garden

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First time here 🔥🔥🔥🔥can you pls provide link to variegated canna source

Do you have a video to show how you" cut and bagged" your banana plant?

That banana is edible. It’s not the typical banana we buy in the grocery store. It makes a good snack by boiling and frying. We make a good salad out the banana heart and the inner part of banana tree is an ingredient for a fresh and raw egg roll.

Gorgeous bed! I live in a nw suburb of Chicago too and this combination is refreshing to see!

That’s amazing that you have left those bananas in the ground. Would be great to see a video or two on your winterizing process to save everything as it’s gets cold. Your garden looks really good especially since it’s not even in full sun all day.

What is the name of the variegated canna with the 2 color flowerd and or the nursery you mentioned??