A workshop was held on Saturday, April 5th 2003 at Maui Community College to teach how to work with Hawaii’s unique natives: design, propagation and maintenance.

Attended • Nursery Owners and Staff • Landscape Contractors • Landscape Architects • Governmental Agencies • Arborists • Planners • Developers • Interested Individuals

Program

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Registration

Coffee and Refreshments

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Welcome

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Plant Selection: Native Plants for Hawaii’s Many Climates
Heidi Leianuenue Bornhorst, Director, Honolulu Botanical Gardens

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM How Native Plants are being used on Maui
Anna Palomino, Ho`olawa Farms

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break and Refreshments

11:00 AM – 12:00 AM Hawaii’s Native Flora: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Dennis Kim, Landscape Architect/Native Plant Specialist

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH – on your own

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Native Plant Propagation
Dr. Gregory Koob, Horticulturalist

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Installing and Maintaining Native Plants
Roxanne Adams, Native Pathfinders Inc.

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Break

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM Q&A: Ask the Experts

PROGRAM SPEAKERS

Heidi Leianuenue Bornhorst

Heidi Bornhorst is Director of the Honolulu Botanical Gardens system, which includes Foster, Lili`uokalani, Wahiawa, Ho`omaluhia and Koko Crater Botanical Gardens. She is a sustainable gardening consultant, horticulturist, Certified Arborist, landscape designer and garden writer. Her specialty and longtime passion is for Native Hawaiian plants and she is the author of the book Growing Native Hawaiian Plants.

Anna Palomino

Anna Palomino has been a leader in the native plant movement for over 10 years. She operates one of the oldest native plant nurseries in the state, Ho`olawa Farms, located in Pauwela, East Maui. She has participated in conservation restoration projects as well as commercial landscaping at schools, resorts, housing development and State Highway projects on Maui.

Dennis Kim

Mr. Kim is an award-winning landscape architect and planning consultant with over 30 years experience in all areas of the landscape industry. He has been actively involved in the research, propagation, and testing of over 300 native species, and has grown and released thousands of both common and endangered species for private and public landscapes. Mr. Kim operates the largest native nursery on Oahu and is a co-sponsor of this conference.

Dr. Gregory Koob

Dr. Koob holds a PhD in Horticulture from the University of Hawai`i. He has worked at the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Kauai as Assistant Director of Living Collections. Greg established and managed the Micropropagation Facility at Lyon Arboretum on O`ahu and established the protocols for the cloning of many of Hawaii’s endangered plant species. He was the publisher/editor of Hawaii Horticulture Magazine. Dr. Koob currently holds a position as botanist with US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Roxanne Adams

Roxanne Adams has diverse practical experience in Hawai`i horticulture having worked for botanical gardens, certified nurseries, and landscape construction and maintenance companies. She served as Project Director for Ho'oulu Mea Kanu, teaching Hawaiian families to grow native plants for supplemental income. At present she is the Landscape Manager at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and President of Native Pathfinders Institute, Inc. a non-profit organization which teaches people how to protect the Hawaiian environment, its plants, animals, people and their culture.

For updates on speakers check out the conference website (under "forestry workshops") at: http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/

PROGRAM SUPPORTERS

The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution providing programs and services to the people of Hawaii without regard to race, sex, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry disability, marital status, arrest and court record, sexual orientation, or veteran status.