Climatic change: Germany soon subtropical banana republic?

Winter-hard bananas grow already in our degrees of latitude. The trade has increases mediterrane plants in the offer. - subtropical plants already today a component of the European garden culture - coolingcompatible banana plants already spreads - tropical planting as new aspect of the garden design

Gtersloh, 22.02.07 - the old farmer rule after a warm summer follows a cold winter by this winter ad absurdum is obviously led. The media are controlled at present by the climatic debate. Dry one, storms and violent precipitation will create plants and animals in the future will make, scientists speak of climatic stress . It forces itself the question upon whether Central Europe moves now into the subtropics. It is secured that the warmer climate zones shift clearly northward. In our gardens this development is already visible. Meanwhile the garden friend finds a multiplicity of plant types in the offer, which originate from subtropical regions and work satisfactorily also with us. Bamboo made the beginning and is today a firm component of the Central European garden design. The number more available and the local climate grown kinds of bamboo and - sorts steadily, thus grows also the spectrum of applications grows. In the garden industry circulated already the term of the Tropical Planting and the producers and supplier begin to adjust itself to new conditions and Bedarfe.

Musa basjoo, the Japanese fiber banana, has to become that things, the next star in the garden. It can reach the tropical sumptuousness, which we enjoy so gladly during our vacation trips with plentiful nutrition in one year over 4 m height and embodied with its enormous sheets almost. Musa basjoo is the robusteste and coolingmost compatible banana. A kind, which can be recommended after the experiences of the first banana enthusiasts also in Germany as winter hard. Bananas from the own garden with vanilla ice-cream and impactsuspect are thereby no more utopia for the local owner of garden.

But little courage as well as gardening fate belong to, before one can present oneself as proud owners of a Bananenhains. The correct soil conditions, plentifully water, humus and nutrients in the summer, well drained soil with little humidity in the winter are apart from a wind-protected location the crucial Rahmenbedigungen for prospering our tropical star. At temperatures under the freezing point banana leaves die. In the free one one winters to Musa, by back-cutting and as nonfreezing as possible covering the trunks after the first frost on approximately a meter. Worked satisfactorily a large crate with dry leaves or straw is e.g. filled and against rains taken off. The durable Rhizom of the plant drives in the following spring if the trunks back-froze in a very cold winter up to the soil.

In order to finally get the tropical vacation atmosphere into the garden, is available many further stately and in this country still little well-known partners for the combination with Musa. Trachycarpus, the evergreen hemp palm high up to 6 meters provides with impressive fan sheets for interesting sheet contrasts and light plays. Also she comes at the correct location without trouble by the winter. E.g. the lily grape/cluster (Liriope) is a grass-like evergreen plant from the family of the lily of the valley plants - an ideal Bodendecker with malvenvioletten blooms, which appear in the late summer. Winter-hard Stauden Agapanthus completes the sumptuous plant splendour with the traditional Kbelpflanzen flower pipe (Canna) and bird of paradise flowers (Strelitzia).

Roland Ltkemeyer, refining confining age and executive committee of the gardners of Eden in Gtersloh: I do not see here yet the new garden trend to Tropical Feeling , this term would have also a zynischen course. We must think rather over garden design up-to-date and lasting for each individual location. Probably also over the employment of drying-resistant sorts and over intelligent irrigation techniques. The question stands completely in front, as we want to live. And this question points over the gardening far outside

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