Diana Duff used to run a 3.5-acre commercial coffee farm on the Big Island, so gardening in a 32-square-foot shouldn’t be that thrilling. Oh, but it is. Duff, a 77-year-old resident of Mānoa Gardens Elderly Housing, revels in her raised bed garden outside her apartment, flourishing with heads of butter lettuce, kale, eggplant, mint, parsley, […]
I do not have a green thumb. In fact, I pretty much have whatever is the opposite of a green thumb. I once tried planting basic herbs like basil and mint and failed miserably. I even killed a succulent my sister bought for me, in record time. So I was pleasantly surprised to find Waiahole
So, this is what Hawaii really looked like, I think to myself, as I ascend up a sunlit valley on the north shore of Kauai, warmly enveloped by 120 species of native and indigenous plant life. Limahuli Garden and Preserve. Photo: Kicka Witte/HAWAIʻI Magazine I’m wandering through Limahuli Garden’s most vital and awe-inspiring acreage, a section
