Tropical Hawaiian Flowers & Native Plants, Hawaiian lei, Gardens in Hawaii

Hawaii airport lei stands and greeters gift us with the wonderful fragrance of Hawaii flowers. The scent of plumeria from lei sold at Honolulu, Hilo, Kona and other Hawaiian Airports is often our first impression of the islands and a lasting memory we bring home from our Hawaiian vacations.

Those who live in Hawaii often gather fragrant, beautiful tropical flowers to make their own lei for family and friends.

Mainlanders, missing Hawaii, can shop for lei and Hawaii flowers online.

Resources for Hawaii Gardens, Lei and Plants.

Lei Day  In Hawaii, May Day is Lei Day, and around the world, the lei is the  symbol of aloha. Traditionally, great care is taken into the gathering of the materials to make a lei. In creating the lei, the person's mana (spiritual power) is woven with the plants into the lei. 

How to Make a Lei How to make and care for your Hawaiian lei and tropical flower arrangements. Lots of photos! 

How to Buy a Lei or Make One  Aloha Friends sells Hawaiian lei, flowers and lei making kits for May Day, graduation, weddings. Lots of pictures.  

Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawai`i Educational site
about ti leaf, coconut, shampoo ginger, kava, taro, and many other Hawaiian plants. Learn how these Hawaiian plants were used in ancient times and today, their cultural and medicinal uses, and how to propagate them. Many nice images!

Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden offers a virtual tour, flower shop and history. Located on the verdant Hamakua Coast a few miles north of Hilo on the island of Hawaii, the virtual tour features orchids, torch ginger, ferns, bromeliads, Lily Lake, an aviary with scarlet Macaws, waterfalls, vistas, lauhala, breadfruit trees and more.

National Tropical Botanical Garden is dedicated to the conservation of tropical plant diversity, particularly rare and endangered species. Medicine, food, shelter - the potential uses of many plant species are not known, yet they are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. Four of these gardens are located in Hawaii.

If you enjoy learning about Hawaiian lei, flowers and
gardens, you may enjoy some of this site's Hawaii nature pages and my article on camping (or day tripping) at  one of Oahu's most serene tropical botanical gardens.

Plan a budget-friendly, Hawaii eco vacation and tour beautiful, tropical gardens in Hawaii. Also enjoy Hawaii's best eco-attractions and find the best deals on purchasing and bringing home tropical Hawaiian flowers and other plants and Hawaiian lei.

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Gifts of Hawaiian flower lei and fruit grace the altar at Pu’u o Mahuka Heiau State Monument on Oahu's North Shore.
Photo by Cindy Blankenship.
Orchid Lei maker at International Marketplace, Waikiki. Photo by Cindy Blankenship
Hawaiian white ginger has a lovely fragrance and blooms wild and in gardens in Hawaii from May to October, Hawaii's summer. Special  lei are made with the fragile white ginger. On Oahu, look for white ginger on the road to the Pali Lookout.
Lei maker at Waikiki International Marketplace
Hawaiian White Ginger
Hawaiian lei are often made of plumeria.
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