Musa 'Ever Red'

Get that tropical feel in your garden
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Key Features

  • Enjoy a theatrical display in your garden with these outstanding banana trees
  • Show-stopping paddle-like leaves are fantastically large and dark green, with maroon red stripes 
  • Hardier and more colourful leaves are produced, compared to those on other varieties
  • Perfect for container planting - a breeze to move around the garden 
  • Supplied as three established plants in 9cm pots
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Description

Add these dramatic new banana trees to your garden and enjoy a show of strong and impressive leaves.

Also known as Musa sikkimensis, these plants boast large, ribbed, paddle-like leaves in a superb dark green shade, streaked with stripes of maroon red.

‘Ever Red’ is the perfect centrepiece for a tropical planting scheme, and when mature will form an impressive, wooded stem.

The thick and strong leaves are thankfully windproof and more colourful and hardy than those seen on other varieties of banana tree.

For best results, these plants will truly thrive when placed in mild areas, and offered some protection, while ‘Ever Red’ will also perform well in containers, making it easy to move around and into a frost-protected area for the cold winter.

Supplied as three established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting.

Top Tips
Over time, your bananas will produce small offsets at the base. These can either be left to form a clump or separated off and grown on.
Care Information

Planting advice for bananas:

  • When growing outdoors, choose a site that is sheltered from the wind both for winter protection and also to prevent leaves being shredded.
  • Plant in late spring, in a well-drained soil, that has been enriched with plenty of organic matter.
  • Once plants are established, water and feed generously through the summer as they are greedy feeders.


When growing bananas in containers:

  • Grow in a soil-based compost, such as John Innes No. 3 with extra grit added to improve drainage.
  • Container-grown plants need ample watering during spring and summer months plus a weekly feed during the spring and summer with a general-purpose liquid feed, or a controlled-release fertiliser.
  • In autumn, over winter plants in a frost-free greenhouse or conservatory and reduce watering and feeding - watering only when on the dry side in winter.

Aftercare advice for your banana trees:

  • Pot on in spring either once a year, or every other year. Increase pot size by 5-7.5cm initially then once established in 30cm pots, increase size by 10-15cm every two to three years.

Pruning advice for bananas:

  • Little pruning is needed. Just cut away old leaves near their base and, when wrapping up plants outdoors for winter, some stems may need to be cut back.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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