2 Musa Basjoo Banana Tree/Hardy Banana Tree in 4 Inch Pots (2 Four Inch Pots with a Banana Starter Plant in Each Pot) Please be Mindful of Temps When Ordering. Do not Order in Extreme hot or Cold

Arrived very healthy looking. Very happy. Hopefully they survive planting

I have already reviewed these. These plants were way too small to successfully stay alive in shipment for almost 3 weeks. One has already died, a second is barely hanging on. The other 2 have new leaves starting. Plants this size belong in a nursery until they have way more than 2 leaves, no less than 6 or 8. Way too expensive for plants barely past seed stage.this company should be ashamed. I may contact them for at least a partial refund, unless the 2 living plants die as well! Then I would want a full refund.

Amazing quality, had literally no stress or even damage within the entire month I've had them now and they're happily acclimated into their garden growing like crazy! Arrived in the most clever and safe packaging. The plant was propagated well, the leaf color is the proper green (which means proper nutrients), and the soil was perfect and very supportive of such a small plant with unique needs.I will say, they don't do well with clay soil or desert conditions, I think the species is a little more picky than some websites advertise (I've seen claims that this is a durable mountainous tree which would imply it had the resilience of weeds which it does NOT, I've killed a few under this impression.)These winterize in my lakeside property in zone 5b. After the first freeze I chop the stalk down to 3' and mulch the base, wrap xmas lights on it, then wrap it in burlap 3 x loosely. Make sure top of stalk is covered, try not to let the burlap touch the actual plant too much just touching the lights ideally, and don't forget to check under the snow periodically to make sure the lights are still on. You may have the whole stalk in tact, you may have to cut it to the ground, but if you do the lights and the mulch/ burlap barrier you will have a beautiful ever-expanding grove of bananas. These do better when i instantly pile snow on top in the beginning of the season, I think it protects from freeze. Also, they seem to grow back quicker when planted in a less-windy and more protected locale. The easiest way to share with friends is to make a tissue culture (easy to research).Thanks for the awesome specimens.

I'm picky, hard to please, and wanted a tropical look with minimal maintenance in Southern Illinois and yes our most tropical looking plant is probably corn (ya it's sad). I ordered 8 of these to plant in a mulched landscape with Japanese Maples and weeping cherries.They came shrink wrapped around the root box and all 8 looked perfect even after a USPS delivery during a very cold first part of April delivery.I had to keep them in the shipping planters - 4" plastic just as you might buy tomato plants - in a fairly bright sunshine window indoors for about 3 weeks until I could get the new mulch down for the spring/summer season.I planted all 8 expecting to lose some plants it being my first attempt at Banana planting.Not only are all 8 thriving and growing amazingly fast . They are now producing off shoots, as of today I not only have the 8 original plants that are about waist high and adding new growth and very large leaves that I can see more growth in daily. I now have 10 plants because of new plant growth from the roots of the originals.All I did was dig a roughly 10" hole, put in the plant and used Miracle Grow vegetable top soil to fill in around them.Amazing results..!I don't know if they will make it through winter at my location but I will simply cut them back and mound mulch over them. We'll see. But if none make it through the winter months, they look great now and look better every day.Simple tropical look in Southern Illinois.Purchased from Dayliliy Nursery

Tried keeping up by watering them plenty, but eventually both that i got died

The plants arrived promptly and were as expected. A shipping overcharge was promptly rectified when I brought it to the company's attention. So that's all good, which is why four stars--the seller is fine. However, I'm not sure, as a Midwest resident, that I would go with banana starts again. We had a banana tree several years ago purchased at season's end from the local nursery for 75 percent off that got me hooked--it came back each spring for four years bigger than ever and reached nearly 20 feet by Halloween. But there are limits. Despite careful and considerable mulching (you can use the tree's leaves), it didn't come back after a particularly cold winter. Got another and also enjoyed it last year, but it didn't come back this spring, which is what prolonged bouts of sub-zero weather will do (it reached nearly 20 below here). So I got eight of these starts, hoping for a big banana-tree stand this summer. Unfortunately, the weather took a turn after they were in the ground--our spring has been unseasonably cold--and it's looking like just three will make it. I don't hold the seller responsible.If you live in a temperate or warm climate, I wouldn't hesitate. But, if you live in the Midwest and don't want to nurture these along indoors for a few weeks until you're sure it won't get into the 30s at night, I'd pay extra and get larger plants from a local nursery a bit later in the season. No matter what, understand that banana trees aren't forever in the Midwest. The ones I've had before were easy to care for and did well when cut down and mulched just before fall's first frost, but there are limits. If you get a cold winter, you'll have to start over with new plants in spring no matter what. But it's worth it. They don't cost that much, they grow incredibly fast once they get going and the wow factor is huge. You'll be the talk of the neighborhood.

I don’t know why but both of these plants died. I planted them immediately and watered them as needed. We got lots of rain during that time but I thought was ok.