Community fruit.
We were over West End way today (didn't see ya Christy!) and on the way back, passed this Queenslander style home which accentuates its heritage with bananas, Lady Fingers I imagine growing right in the small front yard in Vulture Street, South Brisbane. We left in rather a hurry as a rather ominous thunderstorm came towards us but it seems to have dissipated. It's still about 35C though and unhappy high humidity too.
In traditional Brisbane, Queensland and even in New South Wales probably north of Sydney when homes sat on large allotments and had big backyards, it was not unusual to have a small plantation of banana trees growing in the backyard. We had them, all Lady Fingers because there were restrictions on growing the more well known Cavendish in those days. I am a Cav man myself, never liked the slightly metallic taste of the Lady Fingers. The backyard would also possibly be home to other fruit trees, many of them now long forgotten, a vegetable garden and perhaps a chook run. We had all of these and what a childhood of discovery it was, even the deadly snakes!
Community fruit.
We were over West End way today (didn't see ya Christy!) and on the way back, passed this Queenslander style home which accentuates its heritage with bananas, Lady Fingers I imagine growing right in the small front yard in Vulture Street, South Brisbane. We left in rather a hurry as a rather ominous thunderstorm came towards us but it seems to have dissipated. It's still about 35C though and unhappy high humidity too.
In traditional Brisbane, Queensland and even in New South Wales probably north of Sydney when homes sat on large allotments and had big backyards, it was not unusual to have a small plantation of banana trees growing in the backyard. We had them, all Lady Fingers because there were restrictions on growing the more well known Cavendish in those days. I am a Cav man myself, never liked the slightly metallic taste of the Lady Fingers. The backyard would also possibly be home to other fruit trees, many of them now long forgotten, a vegetable garden and perhaps a chook run. We had all of these and what a childhood of discovery it was, even the deadly snakes!