Lyon Arboretum sets popular Holiday Plant and Craft Sale for November 21

From left, student worker Bruce Cava and Gerrit Evensen, horticulturist.

Heliconia mutisiana will be available in limited quantities at the Lyon Arboretum sale.

UH Manoa’s Lyon Arboretum will hold its annual Holiday Plant and Craft Sale on Saturday, November 21, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the arboretum at 3860 Mānoa Road.  The sale will be held on the weekend before Thanksgiving – a great opportunity to buy unique gifts for the holidays.  Admission is free.

The various nurseries attending the sale will be selling colorful ti varieties, cactus and succulents, anthuriums, heliconias, gingers, tillandsias and other bromeliads, Hawaiian plants and native ferns, and vegetable and herb plants, as well as UH variety vegetable seeds and other plants for homes and gardens.  The arboretum will have limited quantities of Heliconia mutisiana for sale, a species with fuzzy, salmon-colored, hanging inflorescences.  Ceramic pots and planters will also be available.

Arboretum volunteers from Hui Hana Hawai’i will sell beautiful, one-of-a-kind dry and fresh holiday wreaths and live bromeliad wreaths, as well as homemade ornaments and oshibana crafts.  There will also be tasty jams and jellies and Hawaiian honey – all perfect for gifts. 

Keiki activities will be provided to keep children busy while their parents shop for plants.

A free shuttle service to the arboretum has pick-up and drop-off points at the intersections of Po’elua Street and Manoa Road, and Nipo Street and Mānoa Road.

Proceeds from the sale help to support Lyon Arboretum programs.

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.

For more information, please call 988-0456 or visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/lyonarboretum/.

The Lyon Arboretum is a 193.5 acre rainforest botanical garden administered by the University of Hawa’ii at Manoa, a campus that serves approximately 20,000 students pursuing more than 225 different degrees.  Coming from every Hawaiian island, every state in the nation, and more than 100 countries, UH Mānoa students thrive in an enriching environment for the global exchange of ideas.  For more information, visit http://Manoa.Hawaii.edu and http://Manoa.Hawaii.edu/media/.  Follow us on Facebook http://facebook.com/uhmanoa and Twitter http://twitter.com/UHManoaNews.