# Paul's Bananas

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Podcast: [Our Plant Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-plant-stories-6074024)
Published: 2026-06-16T06:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.ourplantstories.com/episodes/pauls-bananas
Audio file: https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/13f0a8b3-7b87-4c60-8608-68bec6f13b16.mp3
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Duration seconds: 1813

## Resource

In 2017 Paul Oldroyd bought a Japanese banana plant. He got it home in the passenger seat of his car. He didn't have a lot of money to spend on plants but he had a very large space to fill. He had taken on a one acre former commercial greenhouse that was six foot deep in thistles. Find out in this episode why that first banana plant has been so important to creating a community space - Oldroyd's Corner - in Beverly East Yorkshire. Maybe you'll want to grow a banana plant by the end of this episode - Paul in conversation with Florence Mansbridge, from the Eden Project will tell you how. Paul's partner, Jo Lax, who listens to Our Plant Stories told me about this garden and I love it when the stories come from listeners. If you have a plant story you would like to share - just get in touch. Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally Flatman The music is Fade to Black by Howard Levy This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

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