Main Office 808 537 1708
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Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens
2025 Annual Meeting
March 8, 2025, Saturday
10 am
Foster Botanical Garden
Join us at Foster Botanical Garden to celebrate another year of supporting the Honolulu Botanical Gardens!
A short business meeting will be followed by an update by Honolulu Botanical Gardens Director, Joshlyn Sand.
After a bite to eat, a tour
of the Honolulu Contemporary Triennial Exhibits in the Foster Botanical Garden will be offered.
To register, mail in a check for $20, per person, to the Friends Business Office
180 N. Vineyard Blvd
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
Or go to “How to Help” on the FHBG website.
In the donation section
Also learn about our candidates for Board of Trustees
Please let us know if you would prefer a vegetarian option.
Please email, friendsofhbg@gmail.com
or call 808 537 1708
With any questions!
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A Message from our President
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This has been a busy year for the Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens:
We held an event in April to celebrate Earth Day. We held 6 educational classes in the education building on such things as soil composition and invasive species in conjunction with a small plant sale. We invited several plant vendors and featured many plants the Friends had grown themselves. The classes were so well received that we incorporated more classes at our larger plant sale in the fall. We also incorporated clay pots from some of our potting Friends and these were all well received.
Our summer concerts at Foster were expanded to the Ho'omaluhia and Wahiawa gardens and we were present there with information about the Friends. Many guests did not realize that there are 5 gardens in the Honolulu Botanical Gardens network.
We cosponsored Gleam at Foster for the first time since before covid19.
Our September plant sale was a big success with vendors and visitors alike. And in September we also cosponsored a concert in Foster Garden in honor of Mary Foster with the Hopa Honwangi Buddhist Center and we celebrated the new printing of the book Searching for Mary Foster which we now have for sale in our gift shop after a two-year effort.
And we are looking forward to the November reenactment of Beginning of the Garden, written by Victoria Kneubuhl. Victoria not only wrote the story but she portrays Mary Foster. She has written several other books about Hawaii and she will be doing a book signing in the gift shop this November at the time of the reenactment. Our many events have attracted new members to the Friends and so our outreach continues to grow.
Sincerely
Emmy Seymour
President