Barmy weather means I've started growing bananas in my pub garden for homemade cocktails | The Sun

BARMY weather has seen a pub garden’s banana palm start to produce its first fruit — which will be turned into cocktails.

Landlord Steve Weir says he intends to whizz them into drinks.

He began making plans when a cluster of flowers, which will become fruit, appeared at The Clarence in Hastings, East Sussex.

Local Steve Sivell moved the palm there from his allotment around six years ago.

He said: “It was getting battered by the wind so I put it in a sheltered spot in the pub garden. It hasn’t flowered before.”

Steve added: “We were amazed when we spotted it. We may have to do our own range of banana daiquiri cocktails now.”

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