Heat bears fruit Bananas are now also growing on the northern side of the Alps
This has never happened before: in a garden in Colombier NE, a banana tree is actually bearing fruit, and not only that: the bananas are also fully ripe.
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- A woman from Neuchâtel can pick her first own bananas from the garden this summer.
- An expert is impressed and emphasizes that he knows of no comparable case.
- As temperatures rise, you too will soon be able to grow your own banana plantation.
Ripe bananas in a garden in Neuchâtel - this report from the news portal ArcInfo makes you sit up and take notice. The tropical plant received no special care from its owner, Céline Galey, who "only wrapped the trunk with banana leaves from the tree itself in winter". Galey planted the tree eight years ago.
The head of the Neuchâtel Botanical Gardens is also impressed. Blaise Mulhauser cannot remember a comparable case: "I have never heard of a similar situation."
Temperatures in Switzerland are rising much faster than the global average as a result of the climate crisis. So it's quite possible that you too will soon be able to grow your own bananas alongside grapes, kiwis and figs.