Winter gardening

 
Mid November:
Usually the banana is frosted back by the first week of November and wrapped by now. The leaves have been mildly frost damaged but the plant still looks good overall.

Musa Basjoo -Japanese Hardy Banana

The previous banana does not bear edible fruit. However, an unidentified banana flowered and bore fruit in late September. Despite the abnormal warmth, it isn't warm enough for the bananas to mature and ripen.

 

Blueberry plants showing they fall color as usual.

The edible ginger plants are still alive. They are zone 8 plants. One of them even managed to grow a flower (left photo).

 

The Raspberry crop is still going. Fortunately, none of the wildlife in the neighborhood have found it tasty... yet...

 

Early December:
After a few additional frosts, the bananas have been beaten up. Frost damage is evident on the Musa basjoo. I usually wrap them up after the first hard frost. However, temperatures have not dropped below 31 degrees yet this winter so there is no need for protecting the plant. 

The edible banana plant was damaged too, more severely than the Musa basjoo.