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Ensete bananas should be stored at 10c....

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Ensete bananas, particularly Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii', also...

How to grow Ensete Ventricosum ‘Maurelii’

No exotic garden would be complete nowadays if it didn’t contain an Ensete Maurelii. The massive paddle leaves of glossy luminous green and purple make an unforgettable first impression in any UK garden. Growing up to 1.5m in it’s first season these foliage favourites can reach up to 5m in height in just a few years. We might not be coming across them in some forgotten corner of a neglected garden in ten years time though, like the once essential pampus grass, because these ‘must haves’ are not hardy....
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