Posted on: Friday, September 17, 2004
Home & Garden Calendar
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Advertiser Staff
HOME EVENTS
Home and Garden Workshops, how-to clinics: You Can Update Your Countertop and Cabinets, 7 p.m. Fridays; You Can Install Laminate Flooring, 10 a.m. Saturdays; You Can Save Energy in Your Home, 2 p.m. Saturdays; You Can Have Fun with Color and Faux, 2 p.m. Sundays; You Can Use a Miter Saw to Build a Picture Frame, 7 p.m. Tuesdays; You Can Decorate a Child's Bedroom, 7 p.m. Thursdays; all workshops are free at Home Depot stores: Iwilei, 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. "Homes & Land," TV show displays homes and land for sale in the Islands, noon weekdays on Fox Channel 2 (broadcast) and Channel 3 (Oceanic Cable). 591-2222.
Furniture Workshop Tours, learn about the history and craft of Hawaiian furniture, tours between 9 a.m. and noon Wednesdays, Martin & MacArthur Workshop and Showroom, 1815 Kahai St.; free. 845-6688.
GARDEN EVENTS
Foster Botanical Garden seeks volunteer docents for an eight-week training course. Classes — which will cover the history of the garden, documentation of plants and significant plants and trees — will be 1-2:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Sept. 28-Nov. 16. A fee of $15 for the training will be refunded after 25 volunteer hours doing tours for students and special-interest groups. Register: 522-7064.
Tropical Plant Walks, explore the rain forest on guided tour, 10 a.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. Sundays, Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden; free. 233-7323. Garden Tours, narrated 45-minute tram tours of the garden's heliconia, ginger, vanilla vines and lychee trees, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and 1, 2 and 3 p.m. daily, Senator Fong's Plantation and Gardens, Kane'ohe; $14.50, kama'aina discounts available. 239-6775. Guided Garden Tours focuses on canoe plants (plants brought to the Islands during migration), 1 p.m. Wednesdays; also, tour highlights native Hawaiian medicinal plants, 1 p.m. Fridays, Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Mamalahoa Highway, Kona, Big Island; $5. (808) 323-3318.
Self-Guided Garden Walking Tour, view more than 50 native Hawaiian and tropical plants and flowers surrounding The Royal Hawaiian hotel in Waikiki. Tour pamphlet available at the hotel's concierge desk. 923-7311.
Send announcements with name and contact phone number to: Island Life, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; islandlife@honoluluadvertiser.com, with "Home & Garden Cal" in the subject line; or fax 525-8055.
