For me, brugs grow taller and spread quicker than bananas, so getting shade from the bananas is questionable. 3 feet away seems way too close unless you plan on some serious pruning during the summer. Is this your first time growing these plants?

Plumeria need full sun exposure to bloom well, so make sure they are south of bananas or brugs and far enough that the overlapping banana leaves don't shade them.

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Thanks for the info. I've grown brugs before, but not this particular one called Cherub. I understand they don't get as big as some of the others. I sure don't want to lose it. The 2 banana trunks are about five feet tall.

I have planted bananas in pots with other tropicals and then dug them up and overwintered them in the house.

If you ask me the 'jungle look' is acheived by packing in as many plants as you can into a small area.

The following picture was taken in my backyard last summer. The photo contains a clump of Musa Basjoo, Ensete Maurelli, 2 Canna tropicanna, Brugmansia, Dracena, and a bunch of dahlias. Around back a purple castor bean and Miscanthus giganteus. The grass in the back was measured at 11 feet tall.

All these plants were grown in a circle measuring about 8 feet across.

Pack 'em in!

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