Haysmers Fun in May 2024

 

Give Me COLOR!!

VIREYA (lots of colors)
Hawaiian Rhododendron

Ohia trees surrounded by ferns

"Give me color," she said!

Anyone who know Lunel, knows she is a color-queen!  And, now that our multiple building/construction projects are 90% completed the landscaping is moving ahead. We love our front lot which is full of beautiful ohia trees, so that landscaping area will mostly be ferns and trees.

Yes, we can grow iris!

Royal Poinciana 

However we are developing the lot our home is on which is about 1/3 -- much smaller than the fully landscape one acre we had previously in Leilani Estates B.L. (before lava)

Here are a few images of what we have in mind. All of the images are things we have planted or are in pots waiting. (Of course the photos are of fully grown trees.)

For Lunel's birthday, she asked for cuttings from friends, so many things have been in pots rooting for a few months. We thought being at 3500 feet elevation would limit what we can grow -- NOT SO!  We're amazed at how colorful our new garden will be.

These are just a few!! As the garden develops, we will include more photos! Excited to be seeing the building projects completed -- and best news of all -- escrow closing on our new home in a couple weeks.  MAHALO NUI

Angel Trumpet

Blue Ginger

of course bromeliads!

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.