Haysmers Hangin' Out

Us at the bottom of Hilo's famous Botanical Gardens

Aloha to our blog followers.  Life is good!  We have just finished a couple weeks sharing the Big Island with dear friends from Humboldt County.  Of course we focused on the delights of the East side, enjoying favorite spots along the beloved Red Road and places around Pahoa and Puna.



While our guests were here we enjoyed some plant and bird identification, and realized, we don't know all the names of all the ferns in our yard.

A late afternoon visit up to Kilauea included galleries, lava tube and Jagger Museum where we got to see samples of the higher elevation fern that gives the inner crater its name.

Halema'uma'u, the inner active crater is named the House of Ferns, and the fern this name refers to is the Ama'u Fern (sadleria cyatheoides).

This has motivated us to identify all the ferns in our yard, which is not as easy as it sounds because some of our reference materials differ when it comes to the varieties/sizes of the Hapu'u ferns, of which we may have three.  It will be fun to figure it all out.