Pam's banana plant (Image: Pam Woodall)Pam Woodall, a former economics editor at The Economist, spotted the rare bunch of bananas the other day in her Canford Cliffs garden. Pam's banana plant (Image: Pam Woodall)Pam and her husband Dave have had the plant for the past 12/13 years and said that they've never seen it fruit. She said: "I did not even wrap up the banana plant to protect it last winter, because it's so tall and very difficult to wrap. The arrival of bananas caps several years of other exotic blooms in her seaside garden, including palms, tree ferns, and towering agave plants. Dave Woodall with Agave flower (Image: Pam Woodall)One Agave filifera produced a six-metre-high flower spike before starting to lean over precariously.