Dave’s garden also includes a Chinese rice-paper plant, a Japanese acer, cordylines and tree fern.<\/p>\n
Pointing at his flowering banana plant, he warned, however, they were “not properly edible bananas like you get in supermarkets”.<\/p>\n
He said: “That flower will keep on extending through its life – hopefully we’ll get some more bananas.” <\/p>\n
According to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) most bananas won’t flower or fruit outdoors in the UK, although some may do so in a heated greenhouse or conservatory. <\/p>\n
However, the RHS said in very mild parts of the UK and during particularly long, hot summers, it was possible for them to get flowers outdoors. <\/p>\n
Their leaves can grow up to two metres (6.5ft) in length and mature plants can grow to three metres (10ft) tall or more.<\/p>\n
Dave said he had “always been interested in gardening” and watching gardening programmes – but admitted he was no expert.<\/p>\n
“A tropical vibe is really what I’m going for.<\/p>\n
“Every morning when you look out of your door and it’s like being in a different country – it’s a really nice feeling, makes me feel calm,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave’s garden also includes a Chinese rice-paper plant, a Japanese acer, cordylines and tree fern. Pointing at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}