Posted on: Friday, September 24, 2004
Home & Garden Calendar
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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; 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.
Foster Botanical Garden seeks volunteer docents for an eight-week training course. Classes, which will cover the history of the garden, documentation of plants, significant plants and trees, are offered each Tuesday, 1-2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Nov. 16. A fee of $15 for the training will be refunded after 25 volunteer hours doing tours for students and special-interest groups. Call to enroll: 522-7064.
"Growing and Arranging Hydrangeas," Stephanie Hee shares gardening tips, sponsored by the Lyon Arboretum and the Garden Club of Honolulu, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Oct. 1, Manoa Valley District Park's multipurpose room; $10. Registration required: 988-0461.
Tropical Plant Walks, explore the rainforest on guided tour, 10 a.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. Sundays, Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden; free. 233-7323. Guided Garden Tours 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, Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Mamalahoa Highway, Kona, Big Island; $5. (808) 323-3318.
Garden Tours, narrated 45-minute tram tours of the garden's heliconia, ginger, vanilla vines and lychee fruit 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. 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.
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