marley and me( the movie)

[Doug]

The best gardeners, I think, are willing to experiment. Bananas don't grow in Minnesota. A good gardener would take that basic truth, determine what about Minnesota is deleterious to banana growing in Minnesota, spend the $30,000 to add a solar room on the south side of the house, fix it up with grow lights to simulate tropical days (roughly 12 hours a day sun, year around), plant the bananas, grow the bananas, hand pollinate the bananas, grow the fruit to ripeness, bring the sceptical neighbor in and say, "See, I told you you can grow bananas in Minnesota!" For me, it was grow lavendar in Zone 4, when none I know is that hardy (Zone 5 or warmer....). It took five attempts, thirty plants, but I finally found a microclimate in the yard where one plant grew! "See, you can grow lavendar in Zone 4!" It's insanity!