Do you know that I, a Queenslander, of the sunshine state, land of the banana and pineapple, had in my mind right up until a few years ago that pineapples grew on trees?
Yep.
We were all in the car somewhere in the countryside one day, surrounded by all these fields filled with row after row of spiky looking plants, and I kept thinking to myself, gee those spiky plants sure are popular around here. Then I probably thought of what I was going to cook for dinner, and on a scale of one to ten how much I felt like cooking said dish, when one of the boys piped up.
"Daddy, what are those?"
"They're pineapples mate."
Vague visions of pretty pineapples trees floated through my mind as I squinted really closely from the things growing in the ground to all the roadside stands offering three pineapples for five dollars.
Hmm... pineapples.
Well it was a long time ago now, and I have progressed from total pineapple ignorance to slight pineapple knowledge, i.e. that they grow in the ground.
Which is where I have put one... kind of. In honour of my marvellous imagination (a way superior word to ignorance, it's all in the angle you look at it) I have placed the pineapples in hanging baskets, and in turn hung them high from the ground, hopefully to resemble the fabulous trees that still reside in my thoughts.
And I still think that trees would be a much better idea.
11 comments:
See there you go with your exotic fruit,,,what I wouldnt do to be able to grow a pineapple...I bought an artichoke today thinking that would be an exotic thing to grow, but not as exotic as a pineapple.....
(hope you are enjoying the school holidays)x
Oh I think artichokes are superbly exciting, and I would be quite chuffed to see a home grown one on my dinner plate. My lovely little men are with my mum and dad until tomorrow night as I work on Monday/Tuesday, and I am missing them both terribly. Thank goodness the next few weeks are filled with public holidays that just happen to fall on my work days :D
Ah, the eery silence of empty little beds where furry little heads should lay.........it dosnt happen very often around here, and never has with all three.......but with two away, the house dosnt feel 'right'....
LOL you are so cute! Pineapple trees would be rather fun...now I'm craving an icy cold juicy pineapple...mmmmmmmm!
Just be careful, Little One, that those pineapples don't fall on your head. It would be a spiky end...and just because you are stuck with the vision of pineapple trees!
I hope it's not afraid of heights!
Its very hard to get a pineapple down here with its spikey hat on. I wonder if its because people grow pineapples from them or people in supermarkes complain about getting spiked?...
Did yours come from a nursery or did you grow it from a bought fruit?
My now husband thought they grew under the ground. i was growing a couple of massive plants but with no little ones on it yet - he wanted to pick them - said they would be ripe now.
I don't know that I've ever seen a headless pineapple up here Phoebe, and I don't really think I've seen them for sale in a nursery either... having said that, I am not a particularly observant person, as you can probably tell by my pineapple tree post. The ones I have are the tops of farm bought fruit, I live quite close by to a pineapple farm now.
I would really hate to think that pineapples were being topped so that people couldn't grow them.
ElsieMay, I really like your husband... my kind of thinker :)
Well, up until your above banana post, I thought bananas grew on trees, not plants. I'll use the fact that I live in Montana as my excuse. I must be thinking of coconuts. Do you have coconut trees in your little corner of paradise?
Here's another question for you. Does your corner of tropical paradise experience fall and winter, or can you grow all these extremely delightful things year around?
You see, even though it's officially spring here, I'm still having snow flurries. I find I'm spending a whole lot of time dreaming of sunshine and green things and warm air!
Well banana plants look a whole lot like a tree, and I would like to call them a tree but for some reason they are not a tree... I think because the middle stem that comes out (with the banana flower on it) is not a treeish thing to do. I do want to post again about the bananas (and again and again), so hopefully I will learn a thing or two more about them that I can share.
As for the seasons, we do have them, but just not the extremes that you have. So we have autumn (fall) but not many trees here lose their leaves, and winter here is frost free. But that's just where I am, if you go into the mountains not too far away, they have frosts. Lots of vegetables do better here in winter than summer, tomato is one in particular. It's very hot here in summer to grow them, but our winter days are lovely and sunny, and they thrive.
Does that make any sense at all?
I would love to come to Montana one day, I have visions of endless countryside and beautiful timber houses. And lots of horses too for some reason. I think I get my ideas from the movies :)
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