Musa 'Ever Red'
"Red banana plant"
Orders placed until 29 February 2025
You can expect your order in February/March 2025
Orders placed 1 March - 15 April 2025
You can expect your order in March/April 2025
Orders placed 16 April - 15 May 2025
You can expect your order within 10 business days
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Description
Bring the holiday home with an exotic banana palm, Musa 'Ever Red' and enjoy its bold, leafy structure and lushness in your own garden! With its impressive, paddle like, lush-green leaves, striped randomly with dark-burgundy which last through the season until the first frosts, it is a truly captivating plant with a generously long season of interest which will be a real talking point in the garden. With slightly thicker foliage than other banana palms, this red banana plant is more resilient to summer winds and copes better with winter cold, making it one of the hardiest varieties around.
Classed as half hardy, Musa 'Ever Red' can survive temperatures down to around -5°C, making this a suitable choice for areas with mild winters. Alternatively, you can grow it in a large pot and move it into a more sheltered location for winter. Not at all surprisingly, this impressive variety was a finalist in the Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year in 2024 and is bound to prove its winning credentials in your garden too. This Musa holds its red colour well throughout the season and once mature will eventually reach a height of approximately 3-4m, developing a woody stem, once established. Plant Musa sikkimensis 'Ever Red' alongside flamboyant cannas, vibrant dahlias and swathes of heleniums and rudbeckias to create a colourful, tropical theme for it to feel right at home in.
Often called a banana tree, the banana plant is actually a herb. It shares distant relations with ginger, featuring a succulent stem instead of a woody trunk.
Key features
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Suitable for indoors
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Comes back every year
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Fragrant
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Thrives well in full sun
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RHS Award (AGM)
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Fully hardy
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Needs winter protection
Specs & details
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Botanical name
Musa sikkimensis 'Ever Red'
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Established height
Up to 4.5m
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Established spread
Up to 3m
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Plant spacing
1-3 roots per m2
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Leaf colour
Green, burgundy, red
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Habit
Upright
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Life cycle
Perennial
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Hardiness
Fully hardy
Half hardy -
Years to establish
1-2 years
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Sunlight
Full sun
Partial shade
Dappled shade -
Position
Sheltered
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Suitable for
Indoors
Large containers
Pots
Cottage gardens
Kitchen gardens
Exotic gardens -
Soil acidity
Any
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Soil moisture
Free draining
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Soil type
Humus-rich
Loam
Sandy
Multipurpose compost -
Growing skill
Easy to grow
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Scented
No
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Pollinator-friendly
No
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Mouse resistant
No
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Rabbit resistant
No
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Deer resistant
No
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Toxicity
No report
Plant calendar
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- Planting
- Flowering
Useful information
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Soak the Musa 'Ever Red' roots in water for 3-6 hours prior to planting
Plant your "Red banana plant" bare roots into temporary pots with a multipurpose compost in spring and grow-on in a sheltered spot outdoors
Choose a pot which comfortably fits the bare roots. Some have a noticeable crown which should be just below the soil surface with any top growth exposed. Some varieties are a length of root which should be planted lengthways and shallowly (1-2cm deep).
Plant out into borders or permanent containers in late spring or early summer once in full growth. Choose a position in sun or shade depending on the variety.
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Orders placed until 29 February 2025
You can expect your order in February/March 2025Orders placed 1 March - 15 April 2025
You can expect your order in March/April 2025Orders placed 16 April - 15 May 2025
You can expect your order within 10 business days
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