Plants Commonly Grown in Honolulu Gardens
Author : Garden Club of Honolulu
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Hawaii
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Author : Garden Club of Honolulu
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Hawaii
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Author : John L. Culliney
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780824821760
Hawai‘i is home to some of the rarest plants in the world, many of them now threatened by extinction. Despite a benign and nurturing climate, native species are declining almost everywhere in the Islands. Human-introduced pests, the spread of competing alien plants, wildfires, urban and agricultural development, and other disturbances of modern life are eliminating native species at an alarming pace. In fact, 38 percent of all plants on the U.S. endangered species list are native Hawaiian plants. A Native Hawaiian Garden is an effort to help stem the tide. Until recent years, few people attempted to raise native plants in their gardens, in schoolyards and parks, or around public buildings. But this situation is changing as essential information about raising native plants becomes more readily available. A Native Hawaiian Garden offers the most in-depth treatment yet on cultivating and propagating native Hawaiian plants. Following an overview of Hawaiian natural history and conservation, the book treats 63 species (many for the first time), giving detailed information on all stages of gardening: from preparing seeds for germination to the care and tending of the young plants in the landscape. Habitats where the plants are most likely to thrive are also described, as well as the uses that native Hawaiians made of the plants. Over 90 color photographs enhance the book. A Native Hawaiian Garden has much to offer professional horticulturists, landscapers, and botanists, and gives reason to hope that more spaces around housing developments, shopping malls, and other commercial buildings will soon include native plants. But the book will prove especially valuable to those gardeners who wish to grow and nurture something truly Hawaiian in their own backyards. Among the many rewards of growing natives, the authors make clear, is the opportunity to contribute your own experiences and findings to a vital preservation effort.
Author : Marie Catharine Neal
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Botany
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Floral guide of Honolulu.
Author :
Publisher : College of Tropical Agriculture
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Almost everyone loves a lei--the making, giving, receiving, and wearing of the lei is a cherished Hawai'i tradition recognized worldwide. With the renaissance in Hawaiian culture sweeping the islands, growing plants that provide lei materials can be a source of pride and pleasure for the home gardener, an economic opportunity for green-thumb entrepreneurs, and can reduce gathering pressure on the few precious remaining areas of native Hawaiian vegetation. This book contains information on growing 85 plants that can provide flowers or foliage for lei. Some are traditionally used native species; others are relatively new introductions with a potential place in the lei industry. In addition to the 170 pages detailing the plants, sections of the book provide useful basic plant production information and helpful tips for anyone wishing to get into the lei material business in a small or large way. In a special section written for this book, two experts on Hawaiian tradition and native Hawaiian plants explain the spiritual and cultural significance of the lei and lei making in ancient Hawai'i. These authors highlight the ancient Hawaiian conservation ethic and concept of sustainable agriculture, a revival of which could help preserve the islands' threatened native ecosystems. This book is a must-have for anyone wanting to help preserve Hawai'i's plant and cultural heritage!
Author : Marie Catharine Neal
Publisher :
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Botany
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Author : Marie Augusta Neal
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
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Author : Heidi Leianuenue Bornhorst
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781573062077
Detailed instructions for growing native Hawaiian plants from cuttings or seeds, air-layering, grafting, watering, xeriscaping, transplanting, etc., and basic landscape maintenance. Also explains the plants' importance in Hawaiian culture.
Author : Harold Lloyd Lyon
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Botanical gardens
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Author : Lois Lucas
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780935848113
An introduction to 20 plants of the Ancient Hawaiians. Includes illustrations, uses, proverbs, and poems.
Author : Amy Beatrice Holdsworth Greenwell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 9781581780925
"Native Hawaiian plants make up a unique flora because of the extreme isolation of the Hawaiian Islands. When the Polynesian settlers arrived, they encountered many plants that they did not know before. Over the course of generations, the Hawaiian people learned how to use the native flora to meet their needs. Along with the crops that the settlers introduced from the South Pacific, native plants became the basis for Hawaiian society and economy. In addition to describing the plants and their habitats, this guide relates the significance that native and Polynesian-introduced plants had to traditional Hawaiian culture, and tells how these plants are still used today." --Back cover.