I consider myself very lucky because if I look up when I'm hanging the clothes on the line, this is what I see:
I'm looking forward to, if not actual bananas, the beautiful deep portwine-red flower bract this year.
Miscellaneous fact: I read somewhere that New Zealanders eat more bananas per capita than any other country.
Oh I see - it must be warmer where you are (through the year) than I had thought then.
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I wonder if it's true that NZers eat more bananas per capita. Ted in Togo says he's seen more bananas than he ever knew existed little ones the size of a finger and ones as big as an arm.
ReplyDeleteThing is, they eat them right off the tree, so I don't know who'd be counting them...
Are bananas grown in NZ as a big crop? Are many imported? Are backyard mini-plantations common?
Katherine, is this you and your house and your closeline???
ReplyDeleteIt's warm in town EB, where I am, but we still had six or so frosts last winter, which set my hibiscus back....10 minutes up the road they get snow once every couple of years. It's a land of contrasts!
ReplyDeleteLori. Yep. The house you can see is the neighbour's. It used to be the gardener's cottage for mine. I like to tease him by calling out in a upper class accent "Paul, the roses need de-heading, be a deah."
Dan, I don't really know if it's true. I read it somewhere once. New Zealand doesn't grow bananas as a crop. It's not warm enough. We import millions - mostly from Ecuador (Bonita) (118 million) and from
ReplyDeletethe Pacific, especially Fiji (New Zealand imports almost the entire Fijian crop - don't know how many).
There are certainly dozens of different types of bananas. My favourites were tiny 'Lady's Fingers' that I tried in Singapore once. Ted must be having a wonderful time!
You know of course that 'Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana'.
(Hahahaha.)
uh, . . ., er , . . .uhm, . . . who is the gal in the shorts?
ReplyDeleteUm, er, me? And, believe it or not, I have a much nicer, smaller derrière than the shorts will lead you to think. Not that I really care. Much. (Methinks she doth protest too much).
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