Planting in Puna

[Lee M-S]

Bougies grow fine in Hilo; next time you're taxi-ing around the airport, you can see all the pathetically overpruned ones scattered around the runways. Also, there's a bunch growing in pots outside some kind of adult care home (?) on Kanoelehua just South of Hilo.

We plant stuff in "Puna planters"--cardboard boxes. They help the plant get started without competition, and can be moved around for at least a short while before they dissolve. Situate one over a broken-up spot in the lava, then heap more mulch around them as time goes by.

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