Garden Notes from Hawaii

 A newspaper article about a small home garden in Taranaki, New Zealand and its owner. An eco gran, her garden and the River running through...

  Yesterday I was needing new scenery on my walk so I took the local bus to Turtle Bay Hotel on the North Shore of Oahu to have an outing.  ...

  Golden Duranta seemed to suddenly become popular in the gardens of Hawaii a few decades ago.  I also saw it suddenly spread around the isl...

  Hearts and Flowers is a smaller species of the ice plant family.  It has small heart shaped leaves and small, bright red flowers which giv...

 I finally made it back to New Zealand after two years of all the travel restrictions Covid 19 brought.  It was still not easy travel but at...

  The flowers with a few baby plantlets forming on the stalks. Here is a flowering plant that can add some sparkle to a tropical garden that...

  The common green Ti almost finished flowering.  Notice a new head beginning at center. The name Ti is a Polynesian name for a plant used b...