Home and garden calendar
Advertiser Staff
SPECIAL
THE PLANT DOCTOR, learn how to grow healthy plants, bring photo or description of sick plant for diagnosis; 9-10 a.m.; March 7; Wahiawa Botanical Garden; free; reservations: 621-5463.
MARCH 8 WORKSHOPS AT THE GREEN HOUSE
224 Pakohana St.; registration: 524-8427, thehawaiigreenhouse@hawaiiantel.net:
URBAN GARDEN CENTER OPEN HOUSE, tours of the facility, displays, plant sale and more; 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; March 8; Urban Garden Center, 955 Kamehameha Highway. (near Home Depot); free; 453-6050.
USES OF HERBS, learn how herbs can be used as insect repellents, medicine and more; 10-11 a.m.; March 8; Foster Botanical Garden; free with $5 garden admission ($3 kama'aina); reservations: 522-7064.
WORM WORKSHOP AND GARDEN TOUR, family-friendly, hands-on lesson in vermicomposting, with garden tour; 10:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.; March 8; Halawa Xeriscape Garden; $30 ($20 for members of the Friends of the Halawa Xeriscape Garden); space limited to 20 people; reservations: 382-0432.
ONGOING
SELF-GUIDED GARDEN WALKING TOUR, view more than 50 native Hawaiian and tropical plants and flowers surrounding The Royal Hawaiian hotel, tour pamphlet available at the concierge desk; daily; free; 923-7311.
GARDEN TOUR, 1-mile (1.5-hour) "easy" 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. Sundays); Senator Fong's Plantation and Gardens, 47-285 Pulama Road; $14.50, discounts for kama'aina; 239-6775.
NIAULANI NATURE WALK, guided tour through an old-growth Hawaiian forest; 9:30 a.m. Mondays; Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus, Volcano Village, Big Island; donations accepted; 808-967-8222, www.volcanoartcenter.org.
GUIDED TOURS, view plants of the rainforest; 10-11:30 a.m. Mondays-Fridays; Lyon Arboretum, Manoa Valley; free; reservations: 988-0461.
BOTANICAL GARDEN GUIDED TOURS; 1 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, 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; visits and tours by reservation only: 988-1287.
FURNITURE WORKSHOP TOURS, learn about the history and craft of Hawaiian furniture; 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Wednesdays; Martin & MacArthur Workshop and Showroom, 1815 Kahai St.; free; reservations: 845-6688.
GUIDED GARDEN TOUR, tour highlighting native Hawaiian medicinal plants; 1 p.m. Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Fridays, focusing on canoe plants (plants brought to the Islands during Polynesian migration); Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Kona, Big Island; $4 suggested donation; 808-323-3318.
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