My wife, Pearl, passed away a little more than four years ago. One of my tributes to her was to plant a very special gold tree. known as Tabebuia donnell-smithii, somewhere in her honor. She admired the intense yellow color, and, coincidentally, many of them were prominent on the Manoa Campus of the University of Hawaii, including just outside my office to the left.
On the Big Island, Councilman Dennis "Fresh" Onishi is arranging for these trees to be located at the Hilo Municipal Golf Course and/or a beach site. In Honolulu, Garrick Iwamuro, Golf Course System Administrator, is heading the effort to eventually plant these trees at the Ala Wai Golf Course. It was a year ago that some key City and County leaders met at the nursery near Diamond Head to visit those 82 saplings being grown out:
Garrick is to the left and Councilman Onishi is third from the right. You can barely see the young Gold Trees behind them. Today I went over and took another photo:
I would say that the height doubled and they looked healthy.
I then dropped by Garrick's office at the Ala Wai Golf Course to gain his perspective on when these trees might be planted, now that their irrigation project has been just about completed. He is a horticulturist by training, and felt that it might be some time next year. Who knows, perhaps some day when you drive along the Ala Wai, you will gaze upon a bank of brilliant yellow trees lining the Mauka side of the canal. Same for Hilo off Haihai Street.
I then dropped by Garrick's office at the Ala Wai Golf Course to gain his perspective on when these trees might be planted, now that their irrigation project has been just about completed. He is a horticulturist by training, and felt that it might be some time next year. Who knows, perhaps some day when you drive along the Ala Wai, you will gaze upon a bank of brilliant yellow trees lining the Mauka side of the canal. Same for Hilo off Haihai Street.
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