Britain's barmy weather has seen a pub beer garden sprout bananas - which it will now turn into cocktails.<br /><br />The tropical fruit has appeared at the Clarence pub in Hastings in East Sussex - after the plant flowered for the first time ever.<br /><br />Landlord Steve 'Widget' Weir notice the banana plant had started flowering after six years of doing nothing.<br /><br />He joked the boozer may use them to ''do our own range of banana daiquiri cocktails'.<br /><br />Originally grown by local regular and keen gardener Steve Sivell, the plant was installed in a sheltered area of the pub garden after high winds threatened to damage it at his allotment.<br /><br />Mr Sivell said: “It was being battered by the wind so I brought it to the pub garden in a sheltered spot.<br /><br />"It has been here for five or six years, but this is the first time it has flowered.”<br /><br />Pictures of the plant show the 'cluster' of flowers that will eventually become bananas emerging from atop the trunk of the plant - the first stage of the fruit's development. <br /><br />The Royal Horticultural Society says that banana plants will rarely flower outdoors in the UK due to weather conditions - but can be grown indoors.<br /><br />Landlord Steve said: “We were amazed when we spotted it. We may have to do our own range of banana daiquiri cocktails now.”
