Posted at 11:25 a.m., Thursday, November 8, 2007
Arbor Day celebration at Hale Koa hotel Saturday
Advertiser Staff
The Hale Koa hotel will celebrate Arbor Day with the planting of three trees at 9 a.m. Saturday on Bruyerres Field, along Maluhia Road, near Kalakaua.The trees to be planted are: a kamani (Calophyllum inophyllum), a manele, or Hawaiian soapberry tree (Sapindus saponaria), and a thornless kiawe (Prosopis pallida), grown from Hale Koa's 100-year-old kiawe on the ilima lawn.
Cis Crocker George, president of Scenic Hawaii will speak, and Advertiser garden columnist Heidi Bornhorst will talk about the trees.
For information, call 955-9197.
