The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Lyon Arboretum presents its annual Holiday Plant and Craft Sale on Saturday, November 22, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. at the arboretum. The sale is held on the weekend before Thanksgiving—a great opportunity to buy unique gifts for the holidays.
Various nurseries will selling colorful ti varieties, cactus and succulents, anthuriums, heliconias, gingers, tillandsias and other bromeliads, Hawaiian plants and native ferns, vegetable and herb plants, as well as UH variety vegetable seeds and many other plants for homes and gardens. Ceramic pots and planters will also be available for purchase. There will be keiki activities, too.
Arboretum volunteers from Hui Hana Hawaiʻi will sell beautiful, one-of-a-kind dry and fresh holiday wreaths and live bromeliad wreaths, as well as homemade ornaments and oshibana (the Japanese art of making pictures with pressed dry flowers and plants) crafts. There will also be tasty jams and jellies and Hawaiian honey.
Admission is free to the arboretum, which is located at 3860 Mānoa Road. A free shuttle service to the arboretum has pickup and drop-off points at the intersections of Poʻelua Street and Mānoa Road, and Nipo Street and Mānoa Road.
