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 on special occassions, bon voyage's and aloha greetings upon returning home. Mainlanders, missing Hawaii, can shop for lei and Hawaii flowers online.
Below you'll find some of my favorite Hawaiian Lei related Websites, as well as educatonal sites about Hawaii plants, and Hawaii
garden tours. Aloha!
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.
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
and my article on camping (or day tripping) at one of Oahu's
If you're wondering why I left the "s" off "Lei" when used as a plural, as in "try wearing two or three lei together," visit my
To plan your own eco tour to Hawaii including Oahu nature tours of botanical gardens and beach and waterfall hikes where you can gather blossoms and seeds along with beautiful photos, check out my new second edition of this downloadable:
