Lily with dark leaves opens in the pond by Bodhinatha’s office
Giant seed cones of a cycad, fruiting for the first time after 10 years of making us wait!
Sadasivanathaswami takes a group of ten island leaders through the gardens today, including our former mayor Joanne Yukimura, Lucy Kawaihalau, Barbara Curl, Char Ravelo and Laurie Ho.
The rare False Fruit Tree gets ready to set seed.
Close up of a travelers’ palm
Today’s visitors, a flock of island geese, called Nene. They are the state bird and clearly wanted a closer look at the monastery.
Caladium leaves, hand painted so they say.
One of our frilly hybrid hibiscuses
The amazing Rangoon Creeper, from Burma, a vine out by Iraivan Temple
Now for the truly rare. This is a yellow poinciana, almost never seen in Hawaii. We got it from Puerto Rico.
Up close. Blooming for the first time.
A mountain apple tree whose limbs are actually breaking due to the heavy fruits.
Up close. Not the best fruit in the world, but among the most productive.
There is the garden, and there is today’s garden. And there will be tomorrow’s garden. It is changing every day, new fruits, unseen before flowers, ferns high up in trees that we never planted. So, here is a small sampling of today’s discoveries in Siva’s Sacred Garden.