We will be closed on Memorial Day. It will be a day at the park. Enjoy your day.

Enjoy this classic carnation lei.

Monkey pod tree blossoms has come to an end. Now it’s shower tree blossoms season again.

Here is progress of our flower shop backyard.  It is a little weedy after the rainy winter season. We have a baby pineapple coming up.  So cute. Yeah. Our cactus shot up about 6 feet before flowering. We still have the basil and the rosemary plants, fighting their turfs with the weeds.  Remember, the water we changed out goes here, to grow plants in the back yard.  Less water needed from the Board of Water Supply and less water goes to the water treatment plant.  Summer is here!  Conserve water when we can.

The driver was explaining on how he is still enjoying the fragrant of the gardenia after he has dropped off the flowers at the shop last Thursday.  Imagine what it would be like when the flowers are  in full bloom in a house, by your bed side table, or at your dinner table! The fragrant is not very strong, but just that the sweetness smell linger for a while. Enjoy! For those who already picked up their share of our island favorite gardenia blooms.

The web only let me post the aroma of this heavenly fragrance of pikake that the rest of the world call jasmine.  Really, if you live in Hawaii, go and look around your neighborhood for a pikake bush and just stand next to it under the evening trade breeze that swirl its fragrance into the air. Take a whiff, and now that’s paradise. 

Wow.  Red ti, pin cushion, red ginger, curly fern and monstera leave.  Wow.

The Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act has expired as of February 12, 2011. The Act was to engage economic development in the Andean countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) and provide them incentive to grow alternative crop as oppose to drug (mainly cocaine) production. What does that have to do with flowers? Those roses you bought for your sweetheart this past Valentine’s day are more than likely from Ecuador. Let’s hope the renewal or extension is happening soon so we won’t see any price spike on your next roses purchase.

Finally we’ve got them in. Live narcissus flower plants are here. It is by far the best flower to celebrate spring and Chinese Lunar New Year. Please call 808-732-7668 for availability.

$15.99 per plant (in plastic container)
$21.99 with basic container
$28.99 with gift container

Chinese New Year is early. I mean early. It’s on Feburary 3. Many believe the more blossoms one had on New Year day, the more prosperous one will be for the year. It is no wonder people would decorated their home with narcissus, quince, peach or plum blossom as well as pussy willow to welcome the new year. Check out this brochure by Asian Art Museum, for more information on flower and fruit of the New Year.

Check out the various Chinatown celebration events at link below. http://www.chinatownhi.com/?q=node/648

Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and Black Friday and it is time to prepare for a great Christmas. Let us know how we can help. We have hand arranged table top Christmas trees and wreaths.

Make sure to join the electric light parade and tree lighting ceremony on December 4. More info at http://honolulucitylights.org/