FREE event Featuring: Educational talks: Ian Cole – Breadfruit Institute; Gerry Ross – Kupa’a Farms; James Simpliciano – Simpli-Fresh Produce, LLC, Emil Lynch – Maui’s Best Honey, and Melanie King – Waste Not Want Not More than 20 vendors selling plants and gardening material Book sale featuring gardening and plant books Door prizes Free...
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USDA to Survey the Floriculture and Nursery Industry
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will spend the next several months gathering information for the 2014 Commercial Floriculture and Nursery Survey. NASS will collect data on production area, sales of floriculture and nursery products, and the number of agricultural workers from producers in Hawaii, California and other major floriculture...
Continue readingSee HGP at our booth at the MALP 17th Annual Lawn and Garden Fair
CLICK HERE for complete MALP 2012 Land Garden Fair information Please Contact Susi Mastroianni if you would like to place a business card ad. Cost is $175.00 and will appear in the Maui News the Sunday before the Lawn and Garden Fair. Contact her at email address with your business card email: gardencreationsmaui@mac.com. CLICK...
Continue readingQ&A: How a French Sugar Seller Became a Jeweler of Roses
Florence Gervais d’Aldin got hooked on Russia at an early age when the Soviet Navy dropped anchor in Cherbourg, a port in northern France. Eleven years old at the time, she ignored the initially frosty reception that the Soviet sailors received and experienced the warmth and boisterousness of Russian company, which left a lasting...
Continue readingSay it with flowers but don’t expect everything to be rosy
AUSTRALIAN flower crops, struggling to bloom through a dark and damp summer, are under threat this Valentine’s Day from foreign imports. ”It’s just about impact,” said Tim Baber, of PoHo Flowers in Potts Point, who will be stocking more Colombian roses this year. ”Most guys almost always opt for the Colombians because the bud...
Continue readingAll about Palms with William Merwin and Leland Miyano
MALP Educational Meeting—Free to the public Date: Tuesday January 24, 2012 Place: Maui Community Service Bldg next to CTHAR Extension Services (Map) on the UH Maui campus. Time: Pupus will be served at 6:30 pm and the talk will begin at 7:00. On January 24th MALP is proud to host guest speakers: William Merwin...
Continue readingIllinois expert on orchids to bring rarity to islands
The last specimen of a rare Hawaiian orchid on Kauai will be joined next week by a half-dozen of its descendants in its home. An Illinois botany professor who successfully reproduced the Platanthera holochila is expected to bring about 90 plants to Hawaii next week. The orchid is extinct on Oahu and nonexistent on...
Continue readingNew gardens director to infuse more native culture
KAHULUI The new executive director of Maui Nui Botanical Gardens wants to cultivate public interest in what she calls “a cultural gem in the middle of Kahului.” Joylynn Jennifer-Nedine Mailemekalokelanionakupuna Nakoa Kaho’okele Paman took over as head of the 7-acre facility last week. She succeeds Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond, who is teaching at the University of...
Continue readingFlorist brings attention and care to arrangements
If you look back at the photos, the flowers are exactly the same. Friston Ho’okano had to make sure Abercrombie’s flowers were just as tall as Hannemann’s, that Hanabusa’s heliconias were just as showy as Djou’s. “It’s not just throwing flowers together. Florists work so hard,” he said. “I was there with my tape...
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