By Staff Reports
(Oahu)– UH Mānoa’s Lyon Arboretum will hold its annual spring plant sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. Various nurseries will be selling colorful ti varieties, Hawaiian plants including native ferns, new anthurium varieties, orchids, heliconias, gingers, cactus, succulents, tillandsias and other bromeliads, roses, herbs, vegetable plants, and many other plants for homes and gardens.
Arboretum volunteers will sell jams and jellies made from local fruits, as well as oshibana (the Japanese art of making pictures with pressed dry flowers and plants), spring wreaths, ceramic pots, hand-painted pots and leaf angels. Hawaiian honey will also be available for purchase.
There will be a special book sale for garden and plant-related books and journals.
Native plants will be for sale, including ohia lehua, at Lyon Arboretum’s spring plant sale.
Arboretum staff and volunteers will provide keiki activities, while Tahitian dances will be performed in the morning by Te Vevo Tahiti No Mānoa.
A free shuttle service to the arboretum has pick-up and drop-off points at the intersections of Poʻelua Street and Mānoa Road, and Nipo Street and Mānoa Road.
Lyon Arboretum, located at 3860 Mānoa Road, is open Mondays to Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is closed on Sundays and state holidays. Call (808) 988-0456.