Posted on: Friday, February 25, 2005

Home and Garden Calendar

Advertiser Staff

HOME EVENTS

Home and Garden Workshops, Home Depot's how-to clinics for February: You Can Install a Faucet, 7 p.m. Fridays; You Can Update Your Countertops and Cabinets, 10 a.m. Saturdays; You Can Install Moulding and Trim, 2 p.m. Saturdays; You Can Have Fun with Color and Faux, 2 p.m. Sundays; Power Tools 101: You Can Use a Miter Saw, 7 p.m. Tuesdays; You Can Install Easy Flooring Solutions, 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.

A New Room in a Snap, design team Debi Spellman, Jennifer Garner and Harrison Shin show how small changes, including moving furniture, rotating art and adding accessories, can make a room look fresh and new, 1 p.m. tomorrow, HomeWorld Honolulu on Beretania; free. 543-5300. Also, 1 p.m. Sunday, HomeWorld Pearlridge; free. 488-1065.

GARDEN EVENTS

Mini Plant Sale, native and nonnative species for lei-making, gardens and landscaping, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. tomorrow, Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden's nursery; free admission, sales benefit the garden through the Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens. 537-1708.

Grow Hawaiian Horti/Cultural Festival, gardening clinics by local experts, demonstrations and discussions on growing native plants, plant and insect identification, help for ailing plants, guided tours and storytelling, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. tomorrow, Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Mamalahoa Highway, Kona, Big Island; free. (808) 323-3318.

5th World Bonsai Convention, to be held in Washington, D.C., May 28-31, has extended the entries deadline. Submit slides or digital images for preliminary selection before March 15. Entry forms at www.bonsai-wbff.org. (540) 672-5699.

Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden guided tours focusing on canoe plants (brought to the Islands during Polynesian migration), 1 p.m. Wednesdays; also, tour highlighting Native Hawaiian medicinal plants, 1 p.m. Fridays, Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Mamalahoa Highway, Big Island; $5. (808) 323-3318.