Aloha Everyone!
“Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.” – Elizabeth Murray. Greetings! I hope that Spring finds your garden growing and your aspirations being met. Over here, art is meeting nature. We are attempting to paint a mural in the basement of my home. The mural will represent the Big Island using the four directions; North, South, East and West, universally known as the Medicine Wheel of Healing. So we are calling on your artistic, creative spirit to be a part of this project. Here are some pieces of art that have inspired me. We will have events coming in the future for adults and keiki to participate in making this mural a reality. Maria Singleton, art teacher, is helping in this project. Her next "Let's Paint & Chill!" is March 21st 4-6pm at Honua's Coffee Shop in Naalehu.
Thank you each and all for making our Winter Sale a real success. If getting trees out and making the community more self-sustaining is the goal, then the mission was accomplished. And we want to do it again and again. Shary Crocker did an amazing job handling all the questions and transactions and Garrett is a fortress of goodness. People came from Hamakua, Hilo, Puna, Kona and Hawi. We shared in a fine evening afterwards at our potluck. Earl Louis gave his moving Hawaiian pule and the ground shook. Pastor Kevin Brown gave the blessing of what a beautiful thing it is for individuals to live together in unity and love; in fact, it is life forever. (Psalm 133)
We are already planning for our Spring Sale, May 16 & 17, when the nursery will celebrate it’s second anniversary. We will offer everything we offered at our Winter Sale, as well as Assad’s Citron(used at Succot), Genoa Lemon, Lisbon Lemon, Santa Teresa Lemon(Europe’s most used lemon), Valencia Orange(a juicing orange), Orlando Tangelo, Mexican Key Lime and the 1792 Kona Orange, brought originally to Kona from Tahiti by Captain George Vancouver. Looking forward, we plan to offer in the future Trovita Orange, Seville Sour Orange(for marmalade), Jaffa Orange, Bergamot Orange, Satsuma Mandarin and Rangpur Lime.
Many people ask when buying a tree, when will it produce? The answer is simple: it may never produce. However, with the right care, a grafted tree should produce in 3 to 5 years. A from-seed rootstock tree may produce in 8 to 12 years. Determining factors in the timeline to production include: the quality and location of the hole, care in planting, use of bio-mulch, natural fertilizer and lime, other trees to cool the surface and connect microbial life beneath the surface, and WATER. Root growth precedes leaf growth. Root growth is proven to occur at night. So, we recommend a deep watering in the evening to last a month, which encourages roots to go DOWN and OUT. This will encourage the tree to grow fresh leaves and branches UP and OUT!
Enjoy in your time in the garden. Connect to your Creator and the wonder of creation. Share in the fruits of your labor and join in however you can to the WE community. Helen Keller - “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” And, Cicero - “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” And, finally, Krishnamurti - “Really to care is to care as you would for a tree or a plant, watering it, studying its needs, the best soil for it, looking after it with gentleness and tenderness—but when you prepare your children to fit into society, you are preparing them to be killed. If you loved your children, you would have no war.”
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