When considering plants for your home garden… go native! Native Hawaiian plants are beautiful, beneficial to our ecosystem, tend to be “unthirsty”, and many are becoming extinct.Where can you get […]
Continue readingThe Beautiful Echinopsis
Cactus is a succulent belonging to the Cactaceae Plant Family. They come in many different forms but basically consist of a water-storing body and covered with areoles from which sharp […]
Continue readingHālawa Xeriscape Garden remains closed until further notice
The Hālawa Xeriscape Garden continues to remain closed to the public due to COVID-19 until further notice. Thank you for your patience and understanding! Please stay safe and keep healthy!
Continue readingGeneral Membership Meeting
Just a quick reminder that the Annual General Membership meeting is this Saturday- January 29 at 10am online. Registration is required to receive the log in information. Please test […]
Continue readingTaking Care of Your Christmas Cactus
Along with the poinsettia, the Christmas cactus is another plant that flowers for the holidays. Although the Christmas cactus does not look like your typical cactus, it indeed belongs to […]
Continue readingSucculent Pumpkins Video
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 […]
Continue readingQuarterly newsletters coming to an end…
Aloha FOHXG Members! We will be discontinuing our quarterly newsletters, but with the creation of our new FOHXG website, we will now be providing up-to-date information through our posts! We […]
Continue reading2021 UNTHIRSTY PLANT SALE CANCELED!
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. […]
Continue readingFOHXG July 2020 Update
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 […]
Continue readingCOVID-19: 2020 Open House and Unthirsty Plant Sale Cancelled
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Hālawa Xeriscape Garden, a demonstration garden managed and maintained by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) and the Friends of Hālawa Xeriscape […]
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