Free Native Plants for Arbor Day!

[Mitzi M]

Aloha everyone,

Here are a few of the native plant sales and giveaways I've heard about for this Arbor Day.

On Friday, Nov.2nd DOFAW will have a plant sale featuring native trees in the parking lot of their Hilo office on Kilauea and Kawili Street starting at 9AM.

On Saturday, Nov 3rd (Arbor Day), and Sunday the 4th, the students from Kua O Ka La School will be giving away native trees that they propagated as part of a forestry class. Most of these will be lowland coastal plants. Saturday they'll be in front of the Helco Office (across from Hilo Shopping Center) from 9-Noon. And on Sunday they'll be at Maku'u Farmer's Market from 8 - 11 AM.

Also on Saturday there's a native plant giveaway at Amy Greenwell Garden in Captain Cook. (This event was already mentioned in another thread, but I found out that it's actually a giveaway rather than a sale, and there's a two tree per person limit. That one starts at 8:30 AM.

Hey, if you hit them all you could be well on your way to a native backyard forest!
Maybe other folks know of more Arbor Day events...

Mitzi

Uluhe Design
Native Landscape Design
uluhedesign@yahoo.com

[Kukanaka]

Mahalo for the head's up Mitzi.

[Hotzcatz]

Up in Waimea there are native trees and plants from the Department of Ag's place across from the Parker Ranch rodeo arena. So you can circle the island and gather up plants as you go.

[mella l]

I would love to pick up a couple of these trees in December. Do you think any will be available then? I would like Koa to plant.

If they aren't available then, perhaps someone might know where I might purchase some Koa.

Mahalo,


mella l

[Mitzi M]

Aloha Mella,

Koa is listed for sale on both the Amy Greenwell Garden and Future Forests Nursery's
websites.

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/exhibits/gre...sales.html

http://www.forestnursery.com/pricelist.html

They both also list Koaia, which is a smaller, very similar tree more adapted to lower, drier places. Koas like deep soil and do best above 1500-2000', but I still think they have value in the landscape at much lower elevations. With koas it's best to try and find plants grown from seed stock that was in a similar environment as where you'll plant them (i.e. elevation and rainfall). I've planted a few out I grew from seed just as an experiment - we'll see how they do!