Home & Garden Calendar

HOME EVENTS

Home and garden Workshops, how-to clinics for December at Home Depot stores: You Can Lay Ceramic Tile, 10 a.m. Saturdays; You Can

Try Power Tools Before You Buy Them, 2 p.m. Saturday; You Can Apply Faux Paint Techniques, 2 p.m. Sunday; You Can Remove and Install Wallpapers and Borders, 7 p.m. Tuesday; and You Can Install a Toilet, 7 p.m. Thursday; all clinics are free. Home Depot stores: Honolulu, 521-7355; Pearl City, 455-1200; Kahului, Maui, (808) 893-7800; and Kona, Big Island, (808) 326-6013; and Lihu'e, Kaua'i (808) 632-2740.

GARDEN EVENTS

Narcissus Bulb Carving, learn the basics of crab-claw narcissus culture from Gilman Hu, assisted by Phyllis Lee, 9:30-11:30 a.m. today, Lyon Arboretum; $12 ($10 for members) and bring a small, sharp kitchen knife. Register: 988-0456.

AMY GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN, a Big Island Bishop Museum facility, hour-and-a-half tour, 10 a.m. tomorrow, South Kona, Mamalahoa Highway; donation, $4 (free for Bishop Museum Association members). (808) 323-3318

Holiday Plant and Gift Sale, greenhouse plants, flowers, vegetables as well as gift baskets, flower pots, 3-6 p.m. today, REHAB Hospital of the Pacific; free admission, proceeds from the sale benefit the hospital's Horticultural Therapy Program. 566-3791.

Kadomatsu, learn how to make this traditional Japanese holiday arrangement from John White by making a miniature sample, 9:30-10:30 a.m. tomorrow, Foster Botanical Garden; $15 for garden members, $18 for nonmembers. Reservations: 537-1708.