Deck halls with palm, bananas
This time of year most people are thinking about Christmas trees, but Iâve been focused on trees of a different sort â banana. My friend Pat McCullough of Ruth had a stand of mature banana trees he wanted moved. They were crowded up between a cypress tree and a muscadine trellis, and besides, he has a much better stand nearby in full sun. He was going to move them with a backhoe but remembered Iâve been planting bananas, so he gave me a call. I dug some of his smaller trees earlier this year and set them out in an old burn pile in the Outback. Pat said I could get the bigger on...