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Posted on: Friday, November 30, 2007

Home & garden calendar

Advertiser Staff

SPECIAL EVENTS

Nutcracker Sweet Festival, plant sale, crafts, gifts, food and more, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. tomorrow, 537-1708; also, Hawai'i Potters' Guild pot sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. tomorrow, 522-7065; Foster Botanical Garden; both free.

Classes tomorrow at Foster Botanical Garden; sizes are limited. Registration: 537-1708.

  • Wreath making; two-hour sessions begin at 9 a.m.; $25 ($20 for Friends of Honolulu Botanical Garden members).

  • Basic bonsai, bring garden scissors, pliers and wire cutters; 9:30-10:30 a.m.; $40 ($35).

  • Succulent-wreath making, bring garden gloves, clippers and succulents; 10 a.m.-noon; $30 ($25).

    Workshops tomorrow at The Green House, 224 Pakohana St. Registration: 524-8427, thehawaiigreenhouse@hawaiiantel.net.

  • Cooking with Kathy, learn how to prepare macrobiotic holiday dishes; 9 a.m.-noon; $25; limited class size.

  • Make a rain-barrel catchment system, learn how to collect rooftop runoff to reduce monthly bills and impact on the environment; 10 a.m.-noon; $15.

  • Lotions with Laura, learn how to make and use all-natural body creams and herbal infused oils; 1:30-3:30 p.m.; $15.

  • Water catchment gardening, learn water-cycling techniques for your garden; 1:30-3:30 p.m.; $15.

    Wreath-making class, use xeriscape-type plants to create holiday decorations; 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. tomorrow; Halawa Xeriscape Garden; $5 (free for Friends of Halawa Xeriscape Garden members); supply list and registration: 748-5041, boardofwatersupply.com.

    Simplifying the Holidays: A Green Market Gift Fair, find and create environment-friendly gifts; 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; Church of the Crossroads; free; 524-8427.

    " 'Aiea Local History: Watercress Farming at Sumida Farm," presentation by David Sumida on one of the largest watercress farms in Hawai'i; 9 a.m. Dec. 6; Sumida Farm; free; bring sunscreen, hat or umbrella and drinking water; registration: 483-7333.

    "Family, Genus, Species," learn how to identify and classify plants; 9-10 a.m. Dec. 6; Wahiawa Botanical Garden; free; reservations: 621-5463.

    ONGOING EVENTS

    Garden guided tour, tour highlighting native Hawaiian medicinal plants; 1 p.m. Fridays, focusing on canoe plants (plants brought to the Islands during Polynesian migration), and 1 p.m. Wednesdays; Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Kona, Big Island; $4 suggested donation; 808-323-3318.

    Self-guided garden walking tour, view more than 50 native Hawaiian and tropical plants and flowers surrounding The Royal Hawaiian hotel; free; 923-7311.

    Guided tours, view plants of the rainforest; 10-11:30 a.m. Mondays-Fridays; Lyon Arboretum, Manoa Valley; free; reservations: 988-0461.

    Garden tours, 1-mile guided walk to view the Kane'ohe garden's flowers, plants and trees; 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. daily (keiki-focused tour, 1 p.m. Sunday); Senator Fong's Plantation and Gardens; $14.50, discounts for kama'aina; 239-6775.

    Guided tours; 1 p.m. MondaysSaturdays, with special topics on selected Saturdays; Foster Botanical Garden; included with admission of $5 general, $3 kama'aina, $1 ages 6-12; 522-7066.

    Manoa Heritage Center tours, visit a cultural and historical site in Manoa Valley, with guided tours of the native Hawaiian plant garden surrounding a traditional heiau (sacred site); 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; Manoa Heritage Center; $7 adults, $4 children and students; guided-tour reservations: 988-1287.

    Send announcements, with contact name and phone number, to: Island Life, The Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; or islandlife@honolulu advertiser.com, with "Home & Garden Cal" in the subject line.
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