No winter there.

You're a pioneer!

I was close to baltimore
in Maryland and there was a greenhouse I used to hang out there.

There was a gigantic Banana tree.

It had bananas and they were exquisite. So fresh and hellova tasty.

The tree was I think 7 years old.

I've seen them in people's gardens in the Rockville area.
There used to be a really big one somewhere off Medical Center Drive near the hospital in Gaithersburg but that was years ago.

...on our little finca in Colombia.

Never tried it here in the US.

But hasn't managed to have them develope into fruit due to cold weather. There is a great website about growing bananas in the US. I have it bookmarked on my desktop, but I won't be back for a few days.

There's a very small part of California where they'll grow and ripen. They may also grow in Florida but I have no first-hand knowledge of that.

AFAIK, they're very sensitive to day lengths: they like steady light levels throughout the year to fruit so do best in the tropics. I've kept dwarf ones alive indoors south of San Francisco, but they've never bloomed, much less set fruit.

There actually is a variety, M. basajoo, that grows, flowers, and fruits outdoors in San Francisco, but the fruits are small and inedible. Handsome tree, though, with impressive flowers.