On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:00:36 -0500, "Alan Rubin"
wrote:

We would appreciate some assistance please. We live on Long Island, NY, in
zone 7. The last couple of years we have grown a beautiful Banana Plant in a
pot, as an annual, discarding it at the end of each growing season. Recently
we heard that perhaps we could bring it indoors for the winter, place it in
our basement (cool and dark), not water it, and be able to bring it outside
again next spring. We have no desire to grow bananas, but thought that maybe
we could keep the plant alive from year to year in that manner.

Does anyone know if that is possible, and if so, exactly what instructions
we would have to follow in order to do so? Thanks very much in advance.


There are some cold-hardy bananas.

http://www.banana-tree.com/Product_D...ct_ID~1243.cfm

- Mark