This morning I was reading my favorite garden blogs. The Outlaw Gardener had posted that his Basjoo banana had collapsed. I was pretty shocked because he had just posted yesterday pictures of it still standing. I remember looking out on Thursday and checking our Basjoo and it was bronzed but still standing.

I forwarded on a copy of the blog to G and we were talking about it at lunch today. We finally took a look outside to find that ours had also collapsed. We were shocked. We had thought it made it through the week of freezing temps. Just last a week ago on Friday we had lows of 17 degrees.

But no, the stalks are not going to make it through this winter. They were a mess laying all over the oak leaf hydrangea and hardy hibiscus. G got to work right away to remove most of the fallen stalks and leaves. Sigh… it probably will not bloom again next year.

Just over a week ago – December 4th – it was still standing. We were hoping the leaves would just fall and protect the stalks

But no – between the temperatures down to 11.7 and a bit of rain – the whole plant just collapsed. Tonight it is 45 degrees!

The Fallen Giant

Standing tall on November 17th – less than a month ago

In its glory in July