gonna be good eatin’

About a year ago I asked our gardener Pierre if he could put in a banana plant (Jim, your plant expert, says don’t say tree, it doesn’t have wood so it’s a plant.) He came to the house with two small, small plants that had just a few leaves each. I was a little disappointed. Now one tree, I mean plant, is at least twelve feet tall, waving its fronds–I think they are fronds–way over our nine feet tall walls. The other plant is a different variety I think, and is about five feet tall. Both made huge flowers when we arrived back here in September. We check on the progress almost daily. The plant grows fast, but the bananas take forever to ripen.