Lyon Arboretumʻs Spring Plant Sale

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Contact:
Raedelle R M Van Fossen, (808) 988-0472
Education Manager, Lyon Arboretum
Liz Huppman, (808) 988-0472
Greenhouse Manager, Lyon Arboretum
Posted: May 9, 2018

Finding treasures at the plant sale
Finding treasures at the plant sale

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Lyon Arboretum will once again be hosting their biannual plant sale. The Spring Plant sale will be held on Saturday, May 12, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

The various nurseries attending the sale will be selling colorful ti varieties, Hawaiian plants including native ferns and Hawaiian varieties of sugarcane, fruit trees, anthuriums, orchids, heliconias, gingers, succulents, bromeliads, sundews, herbs, vegetables, and many other plants for homes and gardens.  Handmade ceramic planters and University of Hawai‘i vegetable seed varieties will also be available.

Arboretum volunteers will sell jams and jellies made from local fruits as well as fresh lei and wristlets, spring wreaths, oshibana crafts and dried hat lei.  Hawaiian honey will also be for sale. A keiki booth – run by Lyon’s Education Department – will provide fun nature-based activities for children while parents shop.

There will be no parking available at Lyon Arboretum, except for individuals with official Disability Parking Placards. The general public is asked to park legally in the surrounding Mānoa neighborhood and either walk up to the sale or take advantage of the free shuttle service offered by the arboretum. The shuttle service will have pick-up and drop-off points at the intersections of Po‘elua Street and Mānoa Road, and Nipo Street and Mānoa Road.

Proceeds from the sale help to support Lyon Arboretum programs.

Lyon Arboretum is located at 3860 Mānoa Road and the general hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  It is closed on Sundays and state holidays. During the Plant Sale, all trails and gardens not in the immediate vicinity of the sale will be closed-off to visitors.

For more information on the plant sale, please call the main office at 988-0456 or visit Lyon Arboretum’s website: www.manoa.hawaii.edu/lyonarboretum.

The Lyon Arboretum is a 193.5 acre rainforest botanical garden administered by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, hosting approximately 50,000 visitors annually. Lyon Arboretum coordinates, facilitates, and executes research, instruction, and service activities that utilize its collections of over 5,000 taxa of tropical and sub-tropical plants. Its major emphases are tropical plants, native Hawaiian plants, conservation biology, and Hawaiian ethnobotany. For more information, visit our website www.manoa.hawaii.edu/lyonarboretum or follow us on Facebook www.facebook.com/uhlyonarboretum.

For more information, visit: http://https://manoa.hawaii.edu/lyonarboretum/event/spring-2018-plant-sale/