Author: Blaine Fergerstrom

RSVP for 2024 FOHXG Annual General Membership Meeting

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Aloha FOHXG Members,

Thank you for your continued support. We have some exciting updates for 2024:

RSVP for FOHXG Annual General Membership Meeting:

Please click on the link below to view our 2024 invitation to our Annual General Membership meeting on January 27, 2024 at 9:30am. Please RSVP by January 20, 2024 to let us know you will be attending.

Please take care and have a Happy Holidays!

Mahalo!

You are invited to attend the Friends of Hālawa Xeriscape Garden Annual General Membership Meeting!

Saturday, January 27, 2024
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 am
at Halawa District Park Meeting Room
99-795 Iwaiwa Street, Aiea, HI 96701

Free Parking in the parking lot or streetside

We will be holding this meeting in person at nearby Halawa District Park while the garden is temporarily closed during a construction project.

Agenda

  • 2023 Year-In-Review
  • Committee Reports
  • Nominations & Elections of Board of Directors

Please let us know if you plan to attend and if you have questions, please call Amy Tsuneyoshi at (808) 748-5936 or Sheri Mikami at (808) 748-5315 or email workshops@hbws.org.

Download the flier PDF

Garden closed during construction January – April 2024

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Garden temporarily closed during construction project January thru April 2024

Aloha FOHXG Members,

Thank you for your continued support. We have some exciting updates for 2024:

Temporary Garden Closure Dates: We apologize for any inconvenience, The Halawa Xeriscape Garden will be temporarily closed to the public and volunteers from December 2023 thru April 2024 for a construction project. We look forward to some upgrades to our Garden office building and Pavilion including new roofing, lighting, electrical, interior and exterior painting. Please contact us with any questions.

Please take care and have a Happy Holidays!

Mahalo!

Hālawa Xeriscape Garden Mini Plant Sale

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Hālawa Xeriscape Garden Mini Plant Sale

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2023
9:30AM – NOON

Mini plant sale flier

Upon arrival, please sign in at the garden office. You will then be directed to the sale area.

Major credit cards only

Brought to you by The Friends of the Hālawa Xericape Garden & the Honolulu Board of Water Supply

Download the flier PDF here.

Happy New Year 2023!

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Happy New Year 2023
Reminder General Membership Meeting &
February Garden Opening

Happy New Year 2023

FRIENDS OF HALAWA XERISCAPE GARDEN

Friends of Halawa Logo
Aloha FOHXG Members,

Halawa Xeriscape Garden is pleased to announce we will be open to the public on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9am-3pm beginning Wednesday, February 1, 2023.

As we reopen Halawa Xeriscape Garden, our focus will be on improving the garden after a long period of being closed to the public. Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering in our garden and/or nursery.

Reminder: Please RSVP by January 25, 2023 to let us know you will be attending our (in person) Annual General Membership Meeting on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 10am.  Click on the link below to view our invitation.  The mini plant sale is only for attendees of the meeting.  Note: we will only accept major credit cards.

Mahalo!

View 2023 General Membership Meeting Flyer

2022 Unthirsty Plant Sale Canceled

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Aloha FOHXG Members,

We apologize for the inconvenience, The Friends of Halawa Xeriscape Garden and The Board of Water Supply will not proceed with plans this year for the Annual August Unthirsty Plant Sale at Halawa Xeriscape Garden. The Halawa Xeriscape Garden remains temporarily closed to the public at this time and we will update you when we plan to reopen.  For any questions please email us at plantsale@hbws.org. Please take care and stay safe.

Succulent Pumpkins Video

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Happy Fall! make your own succulent topped pumpkin or pumpkin planter to display or give away. Low maintenance succulents need little water. When the season is over replant after pumpkins get soft.

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2021 UNTHIRSTY PLANT SALE CANCELED!

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Due to the recent increase in COVID-19 cases,
the BWS Administration has decided to CANCEL the
32nd Annual Unthirsty Plant Sale
at Hālawa Xeriscape Garden
on Saturday, August 7, 2021.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

FOHXG July 2020 Update

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friends of halawa xeriscape garden

Membership Update Letter July 2020

FRIENDS OF HALAWA XERISCAPE GARDEN

Aloha FOHXG Members,

Attached is the Membership Update Letter notifying our current FOHXG members that we will be extending current members expiration dates forward by one year without charge.  Please take care and stay safe.

Mahalo!

View Membership Update Letter July 2020

Spring 2020 Newsletter

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Peace Garden “in progress” at HXG

We’re excited to share that the Hālawa Xeriscape Garden is newly recognized by the Hawai‘i School Peace Gardens (HSPG) as a Peace Garden “in progress.”

On February 6, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Outreach College hosted a Sustainable Development Workshop. Kyung Hee University students from South Korea spent two weeks learning about sustainability efforts in Hawaiʻi, which included a presentation about the Hālawa Xeriscape Garden and kindness rock art by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply.

Students drew a Hawaiʻi memory on small rocks to take back to Korea, and on a larger rock, they drew positive messages for our new peace gar- den.

Our long-time friends with 808Rocks have gotten us started with some beautiful and positive messages that have been placed around the garden for years, and we look forward to adding some new rocks by Kyung Hee University students.

[When the garden reopens] Come and visit to see these beautiful kindness rocks and enjoy the quiet beauty of Hālawa Xeriscape Garden.

Mahalo to UH and the Kyung Hee students, 808Rocks, Vangie Pange- linan (FOHXG), the STEMgrows program, Debbie Millikin (‘Iolani School), Hawaiʻi Farm to School, and Jeannie Lum for their help in getting us started! We’re excited about ourpeace garden and we hope that more volunteers will join our efforts for this important project.

Updates will be included in future newsletters.

FOHXG Spring 2020 Newsletter
Click to download a PDF of the newsletter

COVID-19: Hālawa Xeriscape Garden Closed

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Aloha! Our sincere apologies for the necessity of this message from the Board of Water Supply.

Due to the confirmed COVID-19 cases in Hawai’i, the Board of Water Supply is taking the extraordinary measures to decrease the potential of community spread of the virus and to protect employees by cancelling or postponing BWS public events/activities and participation in local events until further notice. This includes the temporary closure of the Hālawa Xeriscape Garden, as well as the cancellation of facility tours, workshops and ceremonies.

There will be no workshops or Free Xeric Seed of the Month during this time.

We apologize for any and all inconvenience.

MAHALO!

See our page on the BWS website at hbws.me/fohxg.