Home & Gardens Calendar

HOME EVENTS

INTERIOR DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS, learn how professionals design interiors, 6-9:15 p.m. Tuesdays, Hawaii College of Design at Gentry Pacific Design Center; $350. 227-4013.

DIGITAL IMAGING AND CADD, essential tools for 21st-century design, 6-9:15 p.m. Wednesdays, Hawaii College of Design at Gentry Pacific Design Center; $350. 227-4013.

"IRWIN PARK, HONOLULU," with landscape architect Loriann Gordon, part of the Historic Preservation Lecture Series, noon Thursday, 'Iolani Palace Old Archives Building; free. 956-9546, 956-8570.

GARDEN EVENTS

Ready for the May Day Lei contest? Brian Choy, past judge for Honolulu's May Day Lei Contest, shares his design concepts and experiences in a slide lecture and demonstration, 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Lyon Arboretum; $14 ($12 arboretum members). 988-0456.

New bugs and how to get rid of them! Ron Heu and Charles Nagamine lead a class on pest control, 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden; $22 ($20 FHBG members). Reservations required: 537-1708.

Guided Tours of the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden on the Big Island, focusing on canoe plants (plants brought to the Islands during migration), 1 p.m. Wednesdays; also tour highlighting native Hawaiian medicinal plants, 1 p.m. Fridays, at the garden on Mamalahoa Highway, Kona; $5. (808) 323-3318.