lich landscape hawaii magazine - august/september 2012 issue
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LICH Landscape Hawaii Magazine - August/September 2012 Issue Women Pioneers Stories: Julie Walters, Heidi Bornhorst, Marie Neal, Christine Young, Kristen Konan Margo Lundstrom, May Moir, Erin Lee, Betty Crocker, Beatrice Krauss, Gloves Recertification, Asian Citrus Psyllid, Smart Irrigation Controllers, Direct Mail, Tree Staking, The mission of the LICH Landscape Hawaii magazine is to support LICH’s mission to build industry unity by promoting high standards and professionalism through education, training, and certification and by providing a forum for the sharing of information and celebrating the success of its members. www.hawaiiscape.com www.facebook.com/hawaiiscape www.twitter.com/hawaiiscapeTRANSCRIPT
Landscape Industry Council of Hawai’iP. O. Box 22938 Honolulu HI 96823-2938
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IN GARDENSOF HAWAIIMarie C. Neal, Bishop Museum Botanist, lead the way for women in the green industry
NATIVE PLANTPIONEERHeidi Bornhorst has been a champion of Hawaiiana and horticulture in Hawaii
BY ACCIDENTJuli M. Kimura Walters improbable journeyto becoming a landscape architect
Formed in June 1986, the Landscape Industry Council of Hawai’i is a state wide alliance representing Hawaii’s landscape associations: Aloha Arbor-ist Association, American Society of Landscape Architects Hawaii Chapter, Hawaii Association of Nurserymen, Hawaii Island Landscape Association, Hawaii Landscape and Irrigation Con-tractors, Hawaii Society of Urban For-estry Professionals, Kauai Landscape Industry Council, Maui Association of Landscape Professionals, Profes-sional Grounds Management Society, Big Island Association of Nurserymen, and the Hawaii Professional Gardeners Association.
Landscape Industry Council of Hawai‘iP. O. Box 22938 Honolulu HI 96823-2938www.landscapehawaii.org
Editors Christopher A. [email protected]
Advertising SalesJay [email protected] MembershipCheryl M. [email protected]
Web MasterCory [email protected]
DesignerDarrell Ishida
Cover Photolkhasddklasdhk
Mahalo to Landscape Industry Council of Hawai‘i Sponsors
DEPARTMENTS
5 PRESIDENT’S MEMO 6 LICH NEWS26 BUSINESS TIPS
FEATURES
12 MARIE NEAL 14 WOMEN IN NURSERY INDUSTRY17 BEATRICE H. KRAUSS20 PESTICIDE LABEL22 ASIAN CITRIS 23 ASABE 24 CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY FOREST27 KONA CLT 28 STAKES AND TIES
COVER STORIES
8 JULI WALTER 11 PIONEER HEIDI BORNHORST
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Formed in June 1986, the Landscape Industry Council of Hawai’i is a state wide alliance representing Hawaii’s landscape associations: Aloha Arbor-ist Association, American Society of Landscape Architects Hawaii Chapter, Hawaii Association of Nurserymen, Hawaii Island Landscape Association, Hawaii Landscape and Irrigation Con-tractors, Hawaii Society of Urban For-estry Professionals, Kauai Landscape Industry Council, Maui Association of Landscape Professionals, Profes-sional Grounds Management Society, Big Island Association of Nurserymen, and the Hawaii Professional Gardeners Association.
Landscape Industry Council of Hawai‘iP. O. Box 22938 Honolulu HI 96823-2938www.landscapehawaii.org
Editors Christopher A. [email protected]
Advertising SalesJay [email protected] MembershipCheryl M. [email protected]
Web MasterCory [email protected]
DesignerDarrell Ishida
Cover Photolkhasddklasdhk
Mahalo to Landscape Industry Council of Hawai‘i Sponsors
DEPARTMENTS
5 PRESIDENT’S MEMO 6 LICH NEWS26 BUSINESS TIPS
FEATURES
12 MARIE NEAL 14 WOMEN IN NURSERY INDUSTRY17 BEATRICE H. KRAUSS20 PESTICIDE LABEL22 ASIAN CITRIS 23 ASABE 24 CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY FOREST27 KONA CLT 28 STAKES AND TIES
COVER STORIES
8 JULI WALTER 11 PIONEER HEIDI BORNHORST
INSI
DEINSIDE
look
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 3
8
For 30 years, Victor Stanley has shipped products to the Hawaiian Islands, taking care to find the most economical means of
transport. For an in-depth look at our company and the site furnishings we manufacture, schedule a Lunch & Learn at your office.
1.800.368.2573 (USA & Canada) | Tel: 301.855.8300 | Maryland, USA | www.victorstanley.com | Proud sponsor of Hawaii ASLA.
100% DOMESTIC, 98%
RECYCLED STEEL BAR.
We design, engineer
and MANUFACTURE
long-lasting, ergonomic
and attractive site fur-
nishings to give your
project more.
SDC-36 side-deposit side-door litter receptacleand FBFT-30 rail-mount seats in optional silver.
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4 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012 THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 5
MEM
OMEMOpresident’s
b y C h r i s D a c u s
Aloha,
You may think Hawaii’s landscape industry is predominantly a male industry, but the truth is, women have played a key role in the development of the landscape industry. They were often the early pioneers and innovators. This issue celebrates some of these women of the past and present who have made great contributions to Hawaii’s landscape industry:
■ Marie Neal, author of “Gardens of Hawaii” published in 1948 and still on everyone’s bookshelf. ■ Founding women of the Outdoor Circle in 1912 who advocated for arborists on public projects and no outdoor billboards. ■ Catherine Thompson, the first licensed landscape architect in the 1930s.■ Maureen Murphy, the first registered consulting arborist.■ Erin Lee, first certified landscape technician. ■ Olive Vanselow, the first Editor of LICH’s Landscape Hawaii magazine.■ Betty Crocker started Scenic Hawaii championing Hawaii’s natural beauty.■ Heidi Bornhorst, an early native plant advocate and author of “Growing Native Hawaiian Plants.”■ Mary Steiner, past CEO of the Outdoor Circle and advocate for “Clean, Green, and Beautiful.”■ Juli Walters, one of the first female landscape architects and designer of award winning projects such as The Lodge at Ko‘ele and the Hawai‘i Convention Center.■ May Moir, an orchid pioneer and one of Hawaii’s well-known garden expert.■ Beatrice Krauss, Hawaii’s original ethnobotanist and native plant pioneer.■ Marie McDonald, one of Hawaii’s most respected floral kupuna and author of “Ka Lei: The Leis of Hawaii.”■ Diane Ragone, international breadfruit expert.
Some of today’s leaders include Roxannne Adams the University of Hawaii grounds manager, Carol Kwan a certified arborist and arborist professional development advocate, Susi Mastroianni a Maui landscape professional, Teresa Trueman-Madriaga championing urban forestry in Hawaii, Christy Martin an invasive species advocate, and many more continue to carry the torch for Hawaii’s landscape industry.
Enjoy this issue and keep your eyes open for more ‘little torches.’
Aloha,
Chris DacusLICH President
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o: S
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Tok
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a2012 BoARD of DiREcToRS
Chris Dacus, President Boyd Ready, Vice President Matt Lyum, Treasurer Rick Quinn, Secretary
Brandon Au Christy Martin Rick Barboza Christopher McCullough Jay Deputy Lelan Nishek Carl Evensen Karen Ostborg Jennifer Lucien Josh Sand
“Women are here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
– Whoopi Goldberg
Mission Statement: Recognizing the diversity of the landscape industry, the Mission of LICH is to build unity by promoting high standards and professional-ism through education, training, and certification, and by providing a forum for the sharing of information, and by celebrating the success of its members.
MEMBERSHIP FORMCORPORATE & INDIVIDUALLICH ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP @ $30
The Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii (LICH) is a non-profit organization in existence since 1986. Membership includes two levels, certain landscape industry Associations that sit on the official Board of Directors, and companies and or individuals doing business in the landscape industry, such as contrac-tors, architects, gardeners and nurserymen, including individuals performing landscaping at Hotels, Resorts and Condominiums.
A statewide association (LICH), composed of ev-ery aspect of the industry, can provide the neces-sary leadership to identify and meet the needs of its members and act as their voice. Critical issues such as lack of recognition and respect for the green in-dustry, lost funding opportunities, lowered standards of workmanship, lack of presence in government and
LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF HAWAII-LICHw w w . l a n d s c a p e h a w a i i . o r g
education, need to be addressed now. As LICH found-ing members wrote, “Unless positive action is taken, the industry will continue to languish below its full potential”.
Please consider the benefits of LICH membership listed below:
■ Free subscription to Landscape Hawaii , the of-ficial Green Industry publication .■ Member rate for any Certified Landscape Techni-
cian Test ($100.00 below the Non-Member CLT Test fee!)■ 10% discount on registration fees for the annual
LICH Conference & Tradeshow and any LICH spon-sored workshop or training class (including CLT train-ing))■ Representation in the affairs of the landscape
industry through membership in your local landscape association■ LICH window decal and membership card■ Membership listing on the LICH website
With your participation, the benefits of being a part of your industry can only grow! Legislative represen-tation and the creation of an Executive Director posi-tion for LICH are just some of the future benefits that will be possible as membership in LICH increases!
Individual Membership: $30 per year | Company Membership: $30 per year includes one individual; Additional employee memberships @ $15 each
Company: Individual member names: Circle Renew or New Address: 1. R N City: State: Zip: 2. R N 3. R N Phone: E-Mail: 4. R N Fax: Web Site: Add more on additional sheet if necessary
Enclose Check @ $30 for first member and $15 for each additional member. Make check payable to LICHYou may also pay by credit card, (Master or VISA only)
Name on card: Amount to charge $: Card number: Expiration date:
Mail to: LICH Membership P.O. Box 22938 Honolulu, HI 96823-2938
2012 Membership New / Renewal ApplicationV a l i d t h r o u g h D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 2M
4 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012 THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 5
MEM
OMEMOpresident’s
b y C h r i s D a c u s
Aloha,
You may think Hawaii’s landscape industry is predominantly a male industry, but the truth is, women have played a key role in the development of the landscape industry. They were often the early pioneers and innovators. This issue celebrates some of these women of the past and present who have made great contributions to Hawaii’s landscape industry:
■ Marie Neal, author of “Gardens of Hawaii” published in 1948 and still on everyone’s bookshelf. ■ Founding women of the Outdoor Circle in 1912 who advocated for arborists on public projects and no outdoor billboards. ■ Catherine Thompson, the first licensed landscape architect in the 1930s.■ Maureen Murphy, the first registered consulting arborist.■ Erin Lee, first certified landscape technician. ■ Olive Vanselow, the first Editor of LICH’s Landscape Hawaii magazine.■ Betty Crocker started Scenic Hawaii championing Hawaii’s natural beauty.■ Heidi Bornhorst, an early native plant advocate and author of “Growing Native Hawaiian Plants.”■ Mary Steiner, past CEO of the Outdoor Circle and advocate for “Clean, Green, and Beautiful.”■ Juli Walters, one of the first female landscape architects and designer of award winning projects such as The Lodge at Ko‘ele and the Hawai‘i Convention Center.■ May Moir, an orchid pioneer and one of Hawaii’s well-known garden expert.■ Beatrice Krauss, Hawaii’s original ethnobotanist and native plant pioneer.■ Marie McDonald, one of Hawaii’s most respected floral kupuna and author of “Ka Lei: The Leis of Hawaii.”■ Diane Ragone, international breadfruit expert.
Some of today’s leaders include Roxannne Adams the University of Hawaii grounds manager, Carol Kwan a certified arborist and arborist professional development advocate, Susi Mastroianni a Maui landscape professional, Teresa Trueman-Madriaga championing urban forestry in Hawaii, Christy Martin an invasive species advocate, and many more continue to carry the torch for Hawaii’s landscape industry.
Enjoy this issue and keep your eyes open for more ‘little torches.’
Aloha,
Chris DacusLICH President
phot
o: S
haun
Tok
unag
a
2012 BoARD of DiREcToRS
Chris Dacus, President Boyd Ready, Vice President Matt Lyum, Treasurer Rick Quinn, Secretary
Brandon Au Christy Martin Rick Barboza Christopher McCullough Jay Deputy Lelan Nishek Carl Evensen Karen Ostborg Jennifer Lucien Josh Sand
“Women are here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
– Whoopi Goldberg
Mission Statement: Recognizing the diversity of the landscape industry, the Mission of LICH is to build unity by promoting high standards and professional-ism through education, training, and certification, and by providing a forum for the sharing of information, and by celebrating the success of its members.
MEMBERSHIP FORMCORPORATE & INDIVIDUALLICH ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP @ $30
The Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii (LICH) is a non-profit organization in existence since 1986. Membership includes two levels, certain landscape industry Associations that sit on the official Board of Directors, and companies and or individuals doing business in the landscape industry, such as contrac-tors, architects, gardeners and nurserymen, including individuals performing landscaping at Hotels, Resorts and Condominiums.
A statewide association (LICH), composed of ev-ery aspect of the industry, can provide the neces-sary leadership to identify and meet the needs of its members and act as their voice. Critical issues such as lack of recognition and respect for the green in-dustry, lost funding opportunities, lowered standards of workmanship, lack of presence in government and
LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF HAWAII-LICHw w w . l a n d s c a p e h a w a i i . o r g
education, need to be addressed now. As LICH found-ing members wrote, “Unless positive action is taken, the industry will continue to languish below its full potential”.
Please consider the benefits of LICH membership listed below:
■ Free subscription to Landscape Hawaii , the of-ficial Green Industry publication .■ Member rate for any Certified Landscape Techni-
cian Test ($100.00 below the Non-Member CLT Test fee!)■ 10% discount on registration fees for the annual
LICH Conference & Tradeshow and any LICH spon-sored workshop or training class (including CLT train-ing))■ Representation in the affairs of the landscape
industry through membership in your local landscape association■ LICH window decal and membership card■ Membership listing on the LICH website
With your participation, the benefits of being a part of your industry can only grow! Legislative represen-tation and the creation of an Executive Director posi-tion for LICH are just some of the future benefits that will be possible as membership in LICH increases!
Individual Membership: $30 per year | Company Membership: $30 per year includes one individual; Additional employee memberships @ $15 each
Company: Individual member names: Circle Renew or New Address: 1. R N City: State: Zip: 2. R N 3. R N Phone: E-Mail: 4. R N Fax: Web Site: Add more on additional sheet if necessary
Enclose Check @ $30 for first member and $15 for each additional member. Make check payable to LICHYou may also pay by credit card, (Master or VISA only)
Name on card: Amount to charge $: Card number: Expiration date:
Mail to: LICH Membership P.O. Box 22938 Honolulu, HI 96823-2938
2012 Membership New / Renewal ApplicationV a l i d t h r o u g h D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 2M
6 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012 LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 7THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
Reach one of the fastest growing and largest segments
of the green industry, the landscape industry with an
economic impact of over $520 million annually and full time employment of over 11,000 landscape professionals.
REACH HAWAII’S ENTIRE LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY TODAY
ADVERTISETODAY
Inquire with Jay Deputy at [email protected].
August 6Xeriscape Open HouseHalawa Xeriscape Garden, Oahu
August 7NHHA Customer Service ExcellenceBishop Museum, Oahu
August 9 & 11Waimea Valley TourWaimea Valley, Oahu
August 17-19Made in Hawaii FestivalNeal Blaisdell Center, Oahu
August 23-26
Kauai County Farm Bureau FairVidinha Stadium, Kauai
August 24Irrigation SchoolUniversity of Hawaii, Oahu
August 26HTFFA-KC Tropical Flower Arranging & Design ShowKauai County Farm Bureau FairVidinha Stadium, Kauai
September 15Garden SexHo‘omaluhia, Oahu
September 28-29BIAN’s Horticulture Plant SaleEdith Kanakaole Stadium, Big Island
October 6-7Hawaii Tree Climbing CompetitionMoanalua Gardens, Oahu
October 25LICH Conference & Trade ShowBlaisdell Arena, Oahu
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
LandscapeHawaii.org (Check website for details)NEW
SNEWSLICH
W h a t s H a p p e n i n g
Congratulations to Dana Anne Yee
Hawaii Tree Climbing Championship
Industry speakers needed for conference
Tree Dedicated in Honor of USDA Anniversary
Upcoming Issues:OCT/NOV 2012Theme: LICH Confer-ence and ASLA AwardsStory Deadline: September 15th
Tell a great story! Email the editor at
Dana Anne Yee was just elected to the 2012 Na-tional ASLA Council of Fellows. She will receive the prestigious award at the ASLA national conven-tion this September. Dana is the owner of Dana Anne Yee, Landscape Architect, LLC. She has over 27 years of professional landscape architecture experience. She specializes in the landscape development of commercial, governmental, and residen-tial projects. Congratulations Dana!
Looking for speakers, specialists, and leaders in the landscape industry to speak at the next LICH Annual Conference & Trade
Show on October 25, 2012. This is a unique opportunity to share your projects, research and accomplishments to Hawaii’s landscape
industry professionals. Submit your abstract to Chris Dacus at [email protected] for review and consideration.
The 2012 Hawaii Tree Climbing Championship (TCC) will be held on October 6th and 7th at Moanalua Gardens. Climbers of all skill lev-els are welcome to participate. It’s a great opportunity to learn new skills and techniques by interacting with other climbers. We also need volunteers for setting up and judg-ing. If you are interested in climbing, volunteering or sponsoring the event, please contact Steve Connolly at [email protected].
On June 21, 2012, the dedication of an Erythrina abyssinica tree on the UH Manoa campus commemorated the 150th anniversary of two important acts in America’s agricultural history. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln established the U.S. Department of Ag-riculture and also signed into law the Morrill Act, which created the land-grant university system. The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and USDA jointly hosted a tree dedication in celebration of their long partnership and in honor of these anniversaries.
The tree that was dedicated, Ery-thrina abyssinica, is a relative of the native wiliwili and is resistant to the gall wasp. The tree was nurtured from seed and planted by CTAHR emeritus horticulturist Dr. Richard Criley.
Dana Anne Yee
DEC/JAN 2013Theme: Arbori-culture & PalmsStory Deadline: November 16th
FEB/MAR 2013Theme: Turf Grass & LegislatureStory Deadline: January 18th
ADVERTISE
TODAYReach one of the fastest
growing and largest segments of
the green industry, the landscape
industry with an economic impact
of over $520 million annually
and full time employment of over
11,000 landscape professionals.
Inquire with Jay Deputy at
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o: F
ores
t & K
im S
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6 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012 LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 7THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
Reach one of the fastest growing and largest segments
of the green industry, the landscape industry with an
economic impact of over $520 million annually and full time employment of over 11,000 landscape professionals.
REACH HAWAII’S ENTIRE LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY TODAY
ADVERTISETODAY
Inquire with Jay Deputy at [email protected].
August 6Xeriscape Open HouseHalawa Xeriscape Garden, Oahu
August 7NHHA Customer Service ExcellenceBishop Museum, Oahu
August 9 & 11Waimea Valley TourWaimea Valley, Oahu
August 17-19Made in Hawaii FestivalNeal Blaisdell Center, Oahu
August 23-26
Kauai County Farm Bureau FairVidinha Stadium, Kauai
August 24Irrigation SchoolUniversity of Hawaii, Oahu
August 26HTFFA-KC Tropical Flower Arranging & Design ShowKauai County Farm Bureau FairVidinha Stadium, Kauai
September 15Garden SexHo‘omaluhia, Oahu
September 28-29BIAN’s Horticulture Plant SaleEdith Kanakaole Stadium, Big Island
October 6-7Hawaii Tree Climbing CompetitionMoanalua Gardens, Oahu
October 25LICH Conference & Trade ShowBlaisdell Arena, Oahu
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
LandscapeHawaii.org (Check website for details)NEW
SNEWSLICH
W h a t s H a p p e n i n g
Congratulations to Dana Anne Yee
Hawaii Tree Climbing Championship
Industry speakers needed for conference
Tree Dedicated in Honor of USDA Anniversary
Upcoming Issues:OCT/NOV 2012Theme: LICH Confer-ence and ASLA AwardsStory Deadline: September 15th
Tell a great story! Email the editor at
Dana Anne Yee was just elected to the 2012 Na-tional ASLA Council of Fellows. She will receive the prestigious award at the ASLA national conven-tion this September. Dana is the owner of Dana Anne Yee, Landscape Architect, LLC. She has over 27 years of professional landscape architecture experience. She specializes in the landscape development of commercial, governmental, and residen-tial projects. Congratulations Dana!
Looking for speakers, specialists, and leaders in the landscape industry to speak at the next LICH Annual Conference & Trade
Show on October 25, 2012. This is a unique opportunity to share your projects, research and accomplishments to Hawaii’s landscape
industry professionals. Submit your abstract to Chris Dacus at [email protected] for review and consideration.
The 2012 Hawaii Tree Climbing Championship (TCC) will be held on October 6th and 7th at Moanalua Gardens. Climbers of all skill lev-els are welcome to participate. It’s a great opportunity to learn new skills and techniques by interacting with other climbers. We also need volunteers for setting up and judg-ing. If you are interested in climbing, volunteering or sponsoring the event, please contact Steve Connolly at [email protected].
On June 21, 2012, the dedication of an Erythrina abyssinica tree on the UH Manoa campus commemorated the 150th anniversary of two important acts in America’s agricultural history. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln established the U.S. Department of Ag-riculture and also signed into law the Morrill Act, which created the land-grant university system. The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and USDA jointly hosted a tree dedication in celebration of their long partnership and in honor of these anniversaries.
The tree that was dedicated, Ery-thrina abyssinica, is a relative of the native wiliwili and is resistant to the gall wasp. The tree was nurtured from seed and planted by CTAHR emeritus horticulturist Dr. Richard Criley.
Dana Anne Yee
DEC/JAN 2013Theme: Arbori-culture & PalmsStory Deadline: November 16th
FEB/MAR 2013Theme: Turf Grass & LegislatureStory Deadline: January 18th
ADVERTISE
TODAYReach one of the fastest
growing and largest segments of
the green industry, the landscape
industry with an economic impact
of over $520 million annually
and full time employment of over
11,000 landscape professionals.
Inquire with Jay Deputy at
phot
o: F
ores
t & K
im S
tarr
LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 9THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
uli M. Kimura Walters, by her own account, was
an accidental landscape architect. The only child of artists
Keichi and Sueko Kimura, Juli was born on Maui while her father was serving in the 100th Battalion of the 442nd Regi-mental Combat Team in Italy and France. She moved immediately afterward to O‘ahu to live with her father’s brother and family.
Juli attended the first through third grades in New York City while her parents attended graduate school at Columbia University and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She loved New York City and liv-ing in Greenwich Village, and didn’t want to come back to Hawai‘i because of the close friendships she had made.
Upon returning to Hawai‘i, Juli enrolled at Ma‘ema‘e and Manoa Elementary School. She spent many happy days in art classes at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. She was always interested in art, but also intimidated by it because she felt more would be expected of her because of her parents.
It was in the seventh grade at Stevenson Intermediate that Juli was first introduced to the cello. From that moment, she wanted to be a musician.
After graduating from Roosevelt High School, Juli attended the Eastman School of Music, a music conservatory in Rochester, New York, and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa from which she re-ceived her bachelor’s degree in music. She also was interested in Indian studies and took courses in Indian art and philosophy, 3 years of Sanskrit and 2 years of Hindi.
It was as a cellist for the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra that Juli’s improb-able journey to becoming a landscape architect began. At the opening concert for the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall, Juli attracted the attention of George Walters who was in attendance as the Landscape Architect of the complex.
Juli had no idea who George was or what a landscape architect did. A few months after they had met, George needed help and decided that since Juli’s
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parents were both artists, Juli could probably learn to draft. She thought she would help him out for a while, but never expected that she would be involved with the profession for the next 40 years.
Juli learned to draft and then to design. “Eventually I found that I liked the draw-ing and designing aspects of landscape architecture, because I could then express a side of me which I had seldom allowed myself to do before,” she said. She never took any art studio courses at the Uni-versity of Hawai‘i at Manoa because her mother was a professor in the Art Depart-ment for 25 years.
When Juli first started working with George in 1965, she was aware of only 2 other female landscape architects who were practicing in Hawaii – Catherine Thompson and Janet Gillmar. She was registered as a landscape architect in 1971.
Juli worked with George, considered one of the master landscape architects in Hawaii, for eleven years until he died. “During the 11 years that we were to-gether, I thought he was the most creative person that I had ever known…besides my Dad,” she fondly recalled.
After George’s death in 1976 until she retired in 1998, Juli ran the office which is now known as Walters, Kimura, Motoda, Inc. According to Juli, “It was often said
that you could immediately identify one of George Walters’ residences by the clean, rectilinear paving layout and the plant material, which often included mondo grass, privet, crepe gardenia, pa-perbark, strawberry guava, Formosan koa and pink tecoma trees. George preferred temperate-appearing plant material, probably because of his initial work in California, and preferred not to use tropi-cals and exotics.”
As the company’s work transitioned from smaller scaled residential design and more into larger scaled resort-oriented projects, the designs became more or-ganic, more tropical and less rectilinear in character. “The use of tropical plants was required and logical”, Juli said, but this subsequently evolved to an increased use of native Hawaiian and drought-tolerant materials. However, hardscape was always the backbone of the designs. Some of the firm’s more recent projects, like the First Hawaiian Center, “still reflect many of the characteristics that identified George Walters’ style of design.”
While Juli has designed numerous award-winning projects, some of her favorite, and also most challenging, ones were The Lodge at Ko‘ele, the First Hawaiian Center, and the Hawai‘i Convention Center. “Working on The
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Formal gardens and croquet court at The Lodge at Ko‘ele, which received the 1995 Hawai‘i A.S.L.A. Honor Award.
A eventfully meeting 40 years ago has lead to a career as a landscape architect
ABOVE: Aerial view along S. King Street at the First Hawaiian Center.RIGHT: Juli M. Kimura Walters.
LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 9THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
uli M. Kimura Walters, by her own account, was
an accidental landscape architect. The only child of artists
Keichi and Sueko Kimura, Juli was born on Maui while her father was serving in the 100th Battalion of the 442nd Regi-mental Combat Team in Italy and France. She moved immediately afterward to O‘ahu to live with her father’s brother and family.
Juli attended the first through third grades in New York City while her parents attended graduate school at Columbia University and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She loved New York City and liv-ing in Greenwich Village, and didn’t want to come back to Hawai‘i because of the close friendships she had made.
Upon returning to Hawai‘i, Juli enrolled at Ma‘ema‘e and Manoa Elementary School. She spent many happy days in art classes at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. She was always interested in art, but also intimidated by it because she felt more would be expected of her because of her parents.
It was in the seventh grade at Stevenson Intermediate that Juli was first introduced to the cello. From that moment, she wanted to be a musician.
After graduating from Roosevelt High School, Juli attended the Eastman School of Music, a music conservatory in Rochester, New York, and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa from which she re-ceived her bachelor’s degree in music. She also was interested in Indian studies and took courses in Indian art and philosophy, 3 years of Sanskrit and 2 years of Hindi.
It was as a cellist for the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra that Juli’s improb-able journey to becoming a landscape architect began. At the opening concert for the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall, Juli attracted the attention of George Walters who was in attendance as the Landscape Architect of the complex.
Juli had no idea who George was or what a landscape architect did. A few months after they had met, George needed help and decided that since Juli’s
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parents were both artists, Juli could probably learn to draft. She thought she would help him out for a while, but never expected that she would be involved with the profession for the next 40 years.
Juli learned to draft and then to design. “Eventually I found that I liked the draw-ing and designing aspects of landscape architecture, because I could then express a side of me which I had seldom allowed myself to do before,” she said. She never took any art studio courses at the Uni-versity of Hawai‘i at Manoa because her mother was a professor in the Art Depart-ment for 25 years.
When Juli first started working with George in 1965, she was aware of only 2 other female landscape architects who were practicing in Hawaii – Catherine Thompson and Janet Gillmar. She was registered as a landscape architect in 1971.
Juli worked with George, considered one of the master landscape architects in Hawaii, for eleven years until he died. “During the 11 years that we were to-gether, I thought he was the most creative person that I had ever known…besides my Dad,” she fondly recalled.
After George’s death in 1976 until she retired in 1998, Juli ran the office which is now known as Walters, Kimura, Motoda, Inc. According to Juli, “It was often said
that you could immediately identify one of George Walters’ residences by the clean, rectilinear paving layout and the plant material, which often included mondo grass, privet, crepe gardenia, pa-perbark, strawberry guava, Formosan koa and pink tecoma trees. George preferred temperate-appearing plant material, probably because of his initial work in California, and preferred not to use tropi-cals and exotics.”
As the company’s work transitioned from smaller scaled residential design and more into larger scaled resort-oriented projects, the designs became more or-ganic, more tropical and less rectilinear in character. “The use of tropical plants was required and logical”, Juli said, but this subsequently evolved to an increased use of native Hawaiian and drought-tolerant materials. However, hardscape was always the backbone of the designs. Some of the firm’s more recent projects, like the First Hawaiian Center, “still reflect many of the characteristics that identified George Walters’ style of design.”
While Juli has designed numerous award-winning projects, some of her favorite, and also most challenging, ones were The Lodge at Ko‘ele, the First Hawaiian Center, and the Hawai‘i Convention Center. “Working on The
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Formal gardens and croquet court at The Lodge at Ko‘ele, which received the 1995 Hawai‘i A.S.L.A. Honor Award.
A eventfully meeting 40 years ago has lead to a career as a landscape architect
ABOVE: Aerial view along S. King Street at the First Hawaiian Center.RIGHT: Juli M. Kimura Walters.
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Lodge at Ko‘ele was our first project deal-ing directly with a large corporate client, David Murdock, and our first opportunity to make a difference at a larger scale. It was at the same time the most rewarding and most frustrating project, and it led to our involvement in many other resort projects,” she said.
According to Juli, she “…enjoyed being able to express my thoughts graphically and learning how to solve the various problems that each project posed. Learn-ing and being exposed to new things have always been important to me, and almost each new project provided the oppor-tunity to do that. It’s always rewarding when a project turns out well, but equally frustrating to watch it change over time to what seems to be most expedient for the maintenance crew.”
While designing provided both joy and frustration, one of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of being a landscape architect is that “I’ve met many of my best friends, both as fellow professionals and as clients, through landscape architec-ture,” Juli said.
Although Juli doesn’t know if she would have ever become involved with plants if she had not become a landscape architect, her latest interest is in essential oils which are derived from the bark, seeds, flowers, stems and roots of more than 50 different types of plants and used for the treatment of various physical ailments. “Now that I’m retired I find that working with plants remains an important part of my life, although very little of my ‘yard’ has been professionally designed,” she said. She also takes pleasure in doing some subsis-tence gardening, and grows and gathers 17 different greens and herbs for salad every night.
Juli has served as the chairperson of the Board of Registration of Professional Engineers, Architects, Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects, and on the Boards of Hawaii Public Radio, Honolulu Symphony and Chamber Music Hawaii. She has also served on a number of design advisory boards, including Ka‘anapali, Turtle Bay Resort, Kaka‘ako and Hale‘iwa.
In 2009, Juli – along with George Wal-ters and 3 others – was part of the initial class of landscape architects honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects Hawai‘i Chapter to receive the Po‘okela Award. The award recognizes local landscape architects who have made significant contributions and changed the way people look and think about land-scape architecture.
At the present time, Juli serves on the Design Advisory Committee for the City’s Department of Planning and Permitting and on the Design Advisory Panel for the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
For someone who became an acciden-tal landscape architect, Juli M. Kimura Walters continues to have a significant,
positive impact on the local landscape architectural community.
Janine Mori is a landscape architect at Walters, Kimura, Motoda, Inc. and is grateful to have begun her career under Juli’s guidance.
Landscape site plan of the Hawai‘i Convention Center, which received the 2000 Hawai‘i A.S.L.A. Award of Excellence.
eidi Leianuenue Born-horst’s wit, knowledge
of horticulture and Hawaiiana, and warmth
have earned her distinc-tion in the landscape
industry and beyond. Heidi is well known as a champion of native plants, true gardeners, and proper plant mainte-nance practices. Today Heidi’s passions run as wide and deep as always. We met at a local coffee establishment for this interview. Heidi showed up with flowers in her hair....her moniker, and an arrange-ment for me. After our time together, I left with admiration for Heidi’s intellect, unvarnished love for Hawaii, and her engaging personal style.
The following are excerpts from our conversation:
LG: Heidi, I see you as Hawaii’s own horticultural “cause celeb.” How do you see yourself?
hB: Dirt farmer
LG: Over the course of your career, what is the most significant change you’ve seen in the public regard for landscaping?
hB: The use of native plants and the appreciation of trees.
LG: Over the course if your career, what is the most significant improve-ment you’ve seen in the landscape industry?
hB: The same, the acceptance of native plants and edible plants in design. The appreciation of trees. The knowledge of how to properly prune and care for trees.
LG: What would you say is your mission statement is?
hB: To help educate people that we must become self-sufficient. We live on an island. We need to be sustainable for when the disaster happens. Right now i’m really into Ulu. People think of Ulu as just pro-viding carbohydrates. it provides much more than that. We need more edible plants. People need to learn how to prune coconuts prop-erly. if they are not overly pruned, they will not grow as tall and we can eat and drink them with ma-jor health benefits, use them for true ecotourism and make hawaii grown value added products from our own hawaiian niu.
LG: You’ve done so much in your career. Could you name an outstand-ing goal?
hB: To help perpetuate hawaii’s native forests, watersheds and ground water. We can’t have all that precious water and soil run-ning into the ocean. We have to do a better job capturing run off.
HEIDI LEIANUENUEBORNHORST
By LORIANN GORDON
THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 11
The following is a list of some of Heidi’s accomplishments and contributions to the Landscape Industry:■ Graduate of the Professional Gardener
Apprentice training Program (NTBG)■ Graduate of the Longwood Gardens’
Summer Horticultural Program, Pennsylvania■ Graduate of the Apprentice Program
of the Royal Horticulturals Society, Wisley England B.S. in Horticulture, U.H.■ Certificate in Public Administration,
U.H.■ Class and field trip leader for Hono
lulu Botanical Gardens, Lyon Arbo retum, NTBG, Honolulu Zoo, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Windward Community College, Ha waii State and Honolulu City and County parks, the military, Women’s Community Correctional Center, Molokai Community College.■ Director of the Honolulu Botanical
Gardens (1999-2003)■ Author of “Growing Native Hawaiian
Plants”■ Weekly garden column for Honolulu
Star Advertiser/ Advertiser (1993-2012)■ Garden Expert TV Program
(1996-2004)■ Volunteer contributions to newslet
ters to long to list here!■ Owner of HawaiiScapes■ Director for the Hale Koa Hotel
(1994-1999 and 2004-2009)■ Board member of Friends of Ho
nolulu Botanical Garden, Friends of the Halawa Xeriscape Garden, Ka’ulu Nani, Scenic Hawaii, Kapi olani Park Preservation Society
Loriann Gordon is principle of Loriann Gordon Landscape architect, and like Heidi an avid plant and ocean enthusiast.
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Lodge at Ko‘ele was our first project deal-ing directly with a large corporate client, David Murdock, and our first opportunity to make a difference at a larger scale. It was at the same time the most rewarding and most frustrating project, and it led to our involvement in many other resort projects,” she said.
According to Juli, she “…enjoyed being able to express my thoughts graphically and learning how to solve the various problems that each project posed. Learn-ing and being exposed to new things have always been important to me, and almost each new project provided the oppor-tunity to do that. It’s always rewarding when a project turns out well, but equally frustrating to watch it change over time to what seems to be most expedient for the maintenance crew.”
While designing provided both joy and frustration, one of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of being a landscape architect is that “I’ve met many of my best friends, both as fellow professionals and as clients, through landscape architec-ture,” Juli said.
Although Juli doesn’t know if she would have ever become involved with plants if she had not become a landscape architect, her latest interest is in essential oils which are derived from the bark, seeds, flowers, stems and roots of more than 50 different types of plants and used for the treatment of various physical ailments. “Now that I’m retired I find that working with plants remains an important part of my life, although very little of my ‘yard’ has been professionally designed,” she said. She also takes pleasure in doing some subsis-tence gardening, and grows and gathers 17 different greens and herbs for salad every night.
Juli has served as the chairperson of the Board of Registration of Professional Engineers, Architects, Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects, and on the Boards of Hawaii Public Radio, Honolulu Symphony and Chamber Music Hawaii. She has also served on a number of design advisory boards, including Ka‘anapali, Turtle Bay Resort, Kaka‘ako and Hale‘iwa.
In 2009, Juli – along with George Wal-ters and 3 others – was part of the initial class of landscape architects honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects Hawai‘i Chapter to receive the Po‘okela Award. The award recognizes local landscape architects who have made significant contributions and changed the way people look and think about land-scape architecture.
At the present time, Juli serves on the Design Advisory Committee for the City’s Department of Planning and Permitting and on the Design Advisory Panel for the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
For someone who became an acciden-tal landscape architect, Juli M. Kimura Walters continues to have a significant,
positive impact on the local landscape architectural community.
Janine Mori is a landscape architect at Walters, Kimura, Motoda, Inc. and is grateful to have begun her career under Juli’s guidance.
Landscape site plan of the Hawai‘i Convention Center, which received the 2000 Hawai‘i A.S.L.A. Award of Excellence.
eidi Leianuenue Born-horst’s wit, knowledge
of horticulture and Hawaiiana, and warmth
have earned her distinc-tion in the landscape
industry and beyond. Heidi is well known as a champion of native plants, true gardeners, and proper plant mainte-nance practices. Today Heidi’s passions run as wide and deep as always. We met at a local coffee establishment for this interview. Heidi showed up with flowers in her hair....her moniker, and an arrange-ment for me. After our time together, I left with admiration for Heidi’s intellect, unvarnished love for Hawaii, and her engaging personal style.
The following are excerpts from our conversation:
LG: Heidi, I see you as Hawaii’s own horticultural “cause celeb.” How do you see yourself?
hB: Dirt farmer
LG: Over the course of your career, what is the most significant change you’ve seen in the public regard for landscaping?
hB: The use of native plants and the appreciation of trees.
LG: Over the course if your career, what is the most significant improve-ment you’ve seen in the landscape industry?
hB: The same, the acceptance of native plants and edible plants in design. The appreciation of trees. The knowledge of how to properly prune and care for trees.
LG: What would you say is your mission statement is?
hB: To help educate people that we must become self-sufficient. We live on an island. We need to be sustainable for when the disaster happens. Right now i’m really into Ulu. People think of Ulu as just pro-viding carbohydrates. it provides much more than that. We need more edible plants. People need to learn how to prune coconuts prop-erly. if they are not overly pruned, they will not grow as tall and we can eat and drink them with ma-jor health benefits, use them for true ecotourism and make hawaii grown value added products from our own hawaiian niu.
LG: You’ve done so much in your career. Could you name an outstand-ing goal?
hB: To help perpetuate hawaii’s native forests, watersheds and ground water. We can’t have all that precious water and soil run-ning into the ocean. We have to do a better job capturing run off.
HEIDI LEIANUENUEBORNHORST
By LORIANN GORDON
THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 11
The following is a list of some of Heidi’s accomplishments and contributions to the Landscape Industry:■ Graduate of the Professional Gardener
Apprentice training Program (NTBG)■ Graduate of the Longwood Gardens’
Summer Horticultural Program, Pennsylvania■ Graduate of the Apprentice Program
of the Royal Horticulturals Society, Wisley England B.S. in Horticulture, U.H.■ Certificate in Public Administration,
U.H.■ Class and field trip leader for Hono
lulu Botanical Gardens, Lyon Arbo retum, NTBG, Honolulu Zoo, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Windward Community College, Ha waii State and Honolulu City and County parks, the military, Women’s Community Correctional Center, Molokai Community College.■ Director of the Honolulu Botanical
Gardens (1999-2003)■ Author of “Growing Native Hawaiian
Plants”■ Weekly garden column for Honolulu
Star Advertiser/ Advertiser (1993-2012)■ Garden Expert TV Program
(1996-2004)■ Volunteer contributions to newslet
ters to long to list here!■ Owner of HawaiiScapes■ Director for the Hale Koa Hotel
(1994-1999 and 2004-2009)■ Board member of Friends of Ho
nolulu Botanical Garden, Friends of the Halawa Xeriscape Garden, Ka’ulu Nani, Scenic Hawaii, Kapi olani Park Preservation Society
Loriann Gordon is principle of Loriann Gordon Landscape architect, and like Heidi an avid plant and ocean enthusiast.
Heidi Leianuenue Bornhorst
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he death, on June 6, [1965] of Marie C. Neal, Bishop Museum
Botanist, ended a long and distinguished career and grieved
her many friends and colleague in the Museum and in the broader scientific community. A devoted scientist and a modest, unassuming, warm human being, she was regarded, and will be remem-bered, with the deepest affection.
Miss Neal’s career began far from the islands with which her name is so closely associated. Born in Southington, Connecticut, on December 7, 1889, she derived from the beautiful surrounding countryside an early interest in nature and growing things. It was during her first required science course at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she achieved her B.A. in 1912, that she decided that botany should be her calling, but there were to be many bends in the road before she would be able to enter her chosen field. Her first job was as a stenographer with an insurance company, followed by other similar positions.
When Yale University offered her a job working mornings as secretary in the Ge-ology Department and afternoons in the Yale Review office, it was the first break in her continued efforts to get into science. Dr. Herbert E. Gregory was head of the
Geology Department and destined to become Director of Bishop Museum. The Review editorial experience was to prove invaluable. When Dr. Gregory departed for Honolulu three years later, he agreed to find her a position in botany and send for her. However, the only position he found open was in the shell department of the Museum. She accepted it and, in January, 1920, left New Haven for Hawaii and was soon established as Assistant Malacologist in the laboratory of Dr. C. Montague Cooke, Jr., where she cata-logued, sorted, and identified land shells, and prepared scientific drawings of them. In 1923, on an expedition to the sum-mits of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, she obtained a number of specimens, among them a series of Vitrina tenella, up to then poorly represented in collections.
Miss Neal’s Master of Science degree in botany was granted by Yale in 1925, after submitting as her thesis an ecological study of Hawaiian marine algae. Later that year she went on a five-months’ plant-collecting trip to New Zealand. She studied the distribution of plants around Kilauea Volcano in 1927, in addition to her work on land shells, and prepared an article on the flowering cycle in Honolulu for Thrum’s Annual. She also was making substantial progress in the preparation of a guide to gardens, embodying popu-lar descriptions of common and strik-ing plants in Honolulu. This led to the publication in 1982, with Berta Metzger who contributed plant legends, of her book, In Honolulu Gardens. It was such an immediate success that it had to be reprinted in 1929.
At last, on January 1, 1930, Marie Neal was appointed Botanist and placed in charge of the museum’s herbarium. She commenced the long-neglected task of rearranging the collections, listing and cataloguing plants, and forming sets of duplicates for exchange. Thus began what were to be many full and richly productive years. She journeyed around the world in 1935 visiting botani-cal gardens and herbaria in Europe and Asia, and made several collecting trips to the mountains of the Neighbor Islands and even the outlying islets. She was a frequent contributor to many publica-tions, kept ever-increasing records of the incidence of Hawaiian plants, and plants of the Pacific in general, and responded to countless inquiries about them from all over the world. Honors came to her over the years, and plants were named for her by fellow botanists.
She will probably be best remembered as the author of In Gardens of Hawaii, which first appeared in 1948, was also an instant sell-out, reprinted the following year, and ultimately went out of print. The last years of her life were devoted almost entirely to a completely new, revised edition, published by Bishop Museum Press. Long before the first shipment of books would arrive from the mainland printer, a specially bound, advance copy was procured and presented to Miss Neal by the Director, Dr. Roland W. Force. Death came about three weeks later. One can be grateful to whatever fates spared her long enough to see a copy of the book that will forever stand as a monument to the years of dedicated work and study by the woman who produced it.
Carol Kwan is the President of Carol Kwan Consulting, a Certified Arborist, and the Secretary of Aloha Arborist Association.
12 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
By SADIE J. DOyLE
Distinguished Bishop Museum botanist Marie C. Neal career celebrated
DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in the Hawaiian Malacological Society’s publication The Conch Shell in 1965. Reprinted with permission.
Lei of the islands drawing by Marie C. Neal.
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he death, on June 6, [1965] of Marie C. Neal, Bishop Museum
Botanist, ended a long and distinguished career and grieved
her many friends and colleague in the Museum and in the broader scientific community. A devoted scientist and a modest, unassuming, warm human being, she was regarded, and will be remem-bered, with the deepest affection.
Miss Neal’s career began far from the islands with which her name is so closely associated. Born in Southington, Connecticut, on December 7, 1889, she derived from the beautiful surrounding countryside an early interest in nature and growing things. It was during her first required science course at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she achieved her B.A. in 1912, that she decided that botany should be her calling, but there were to be many bends in the road before she would be able to enter her chosen field. Her first job was as a stenographer with an insurance company, followed by other similar positions.
When Yale University offered her a job working mornings as secretary in the Ge-ology Department and afternoons in the Yale Review office, it was the first break in her continued efforts to get into science. Dr. Herbert E. Gregory was head of the
Geology Department and destined to become Director of Bishop Museum. The Review editorial experience was to prove invaluable. When Dr. Gregory departed for Honolulu three years later, he agreed to find her a position in botany and send for her. However, the only position he found open was in the shell department of the Museum. She accepted it and, in January, 1920, left New Haven for Hawaii and was soon established as Assistant Malacologist in the laboratory of Dr. C. Montague Cooke, Jr., where she cata-logued, sorted, and identified land shells, and prepared scientific drawings of them. In 1923, on an expedition to the sum-mits of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, she obtained a number of specimens, among them a series of Vitrina tenella, up to then poorly represented in collections.
Miss Neal’s Master of Science degree in botany was granted by Yale in 1925, after submitting as her thesis an ecological study of Hawaiian marine algae. Later that year she went on a five-months’ plant-collecting trip to New Zealand. She studied the distribution of plants around Kilauea Volcano in 1927, in addition to her work on land shells, and prepared an article on the flowering cycle in Honolulu for Thrum’s Annual. She also was making substantial progress in the preparation of a guide to gardens, embodying popu-lar descriptions of common and strik-ing plants in Honolulu. This led to the publication in 1982, with Berta Metzger who contributed plant legends, of her book, In Honolulu Gardens. It was such an immediate success that it had to be reprinted in 1929.
At last, on January 1, 1930, Marie Neal was appointed Botanist and placed in charge of the museum’s herbarium. She commenced the long-neglected task of rearranging the collections, listing and cataloguing plants, and forming sets of duplicates for exchange. Thus began what were to be many full and richly productive years. She journeyed around the world in 1935 visiting botani-cal gardens and herbaria in Europe and Asia, and made several collecting trips to the mountains of the Neighbor Islands and even the outlying islets. She was a frequent contributor to many publica-tions, kept ever-increasing records of the incidence of Hawaiian plants, and plants of the Pacific in general, and responded to countless inquiries about them from all over the world. Honors came to her over the years, and plants were named for her by fellow botanists.
She will probably be best remembered as the author of In Gardens of Hawaii, which first appeared in 1948, was also an instant sell-out, reprinted the following year, and ultimately went out of print. The last years of her life were devoted almost entirely to a completely new, revised edition, published by Bishop Museum Press. Long before the first shipment of books would arrive from the mainland printer, a specially bound, advance copy was procured and presented to Miss Neal by the Director, Dr. Roland W. Force. Death came about three weeks later. One can be grateful to whatever fates spared her long enough to see a copy of the book that will forever stand as a monument to the years of dedicated work and study by the woman who produced it.
Carol Kwan is the President of Carol Kwan Consulting, a Certified Arborist, and the Secretary of Aloha Arborist Association.
12 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
By SADIE J. DOyLE
Distinguished Bishop Museum botanist Marie C. Neal career celebrated
DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in the Hawaiian Malacological Society’s publication The Conch Shell in 1965. Reprinted with permission.
Lei of the islands drawing by Marie C. Neal.
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Kristen Konan, Nursery Opera-tions and Sales Manager of Hawaiian Gar-dens in Kailua-Kona since 2008 was born and raised in Massachusetts, a graduate of Nichols College with a B.S. in Business Administration. Past experience: Orchard and seasonal retail nursery sales. Favorite part of her job: Being outside surrounded by greenery and around happy clientele who already love plants. Least favorite part of her job: The heat and getting a “red neck tan”. Favorite Plant: Although it’s hard to narrow that down, I like plants that have seasonal changes because they create excitement and anticipation when they come into bloom. Aspirations: Continuing to grow the high quality aspect of their nursery products, creating
new trends and staying ahead of what customers want. Her tips to the novice nurseryman: Get out there and find a mentor who will teach you and help you start growing and learning about plants. Get your hands dirty because experience is the best teacher.
Margo LundstroM, Owner and Operator of Sunrise Nursery, LLC., a wholesale and retail nursery in Kailua-Ko-na was born and raised in Ojai, California and grew up in orange groves. Self-taught and started growing plants in her back-yard 21 years ago as a way to work at home while raising her children. Most enjoyable part of her business: Watching plants bloom and flourish and meeting great people. “ I get to see wonderful homes when I make deliveries around Kona”. Least favorite part of the job: Insect pests and the occasional challenging customer.
Favorite plant: Hmmm. Desert roses, which are ideal for Kona… and succu-lents. It’s hard to choose; I love them all. Aspirations for the business: “I don’t want to grow any larger and someday I’d like to sell it, but for now I enjoy maintaining the business and I still have a lot ahead of me”. Parting words: “We’re open 7 days a week and I have one full time employee besides me. I’ve weathered the economy and I’m still in business. My nursery is a great place to meet the community and I’ve had people stop in and say, ‘I just need some green space before hitting Costco’. Plant-people are like animal-people; they’re compassionate and nurturing”.
Erin Lee is the Director of Landscape at Hualalai Resort and the Treasurer of the Hawaii Island Landscape Association.
aY Moir was a gift to practical
gardeners and flower arrangers. Plants had
to “earn their keep” in her Nu’uanu garden ‘Lipolani’, by being either edible, useful in flower arranging (fresh or dried) or they had to be orchids. (Her late husband Goodale Moir was a fa-mous orchidist and agronomist for HSPA)
She grew many of the bromeliads that we cherish in our gardens today. She was the first to bloom and collect seeds from Vriesia imperialis, many keiki of which grow in our gardens today.
For over 40 years Moir volunteered with a team to provide the weekly flower arrangements for the Honolulu Art museum. Most of the plants came from her garden or those of her friends. She always asked me to be on the lookout for interesting and sculptural plant materi-als from Ho‘omaluhia and Foster Botanic Garden, especially after a big windstorm. ‘Are there any treasures for the Art Acad-emy on the ground, dear?’
She wrote several concise books, the Flower arrangers Handbook and the Gar-den watcher, which noted when plants were blooming in Hawaii, and how to use them for decor and fine Hawaiian dining. She was also the main editor for her hus-band’s orchid and technical writings. She is featured in the beautiful coffee table book Floral traditions at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which she helped Kaui Philpotts write.
The Moirs collected, grew and hy-bridized orchids and other plants from around the world. She discovered the beautiful giant yellow Heliconia carib-aea on a trip to the Dominican Republic and legally brought it home to Hawaii in 1955. It was first grown at Foster Botanic Garden.
She got one the first of 6 seeds of blue ginger from Dr Harold Lyon of Foster Botanic Garden, and was the first to grow and bloom this gorgeous flowering plant in Hawaii.
The Moirs contributed numerous rare orchids and other plants and ecological landscape design ideas to Foster Botanic Garden and Lyon Arboretum.
May Moir passed away at the age of 93 in 2002 and her legacy lives on in those of us who worked with and gardened with this akamai green handed wahine.
She perpetuated the Madeira rose from Portugal, which her mother-in-law was
WOMEN PIONEERSIN GREEN HAWAIIMay Moir, Erin Lee and Betty Crocker blazed the way for women in the landscape industry By HEIDI LEIANuENuE BORNHORSt
given by a nice Portuguese woman on Hawaii Island. She grew this fragrant pink plush cottage style rose in every garden she grew and I have it growing in all the gardens where I have lived too. When it blooms I’m reminded of all that May shared with me and with all Hawaii plant lovers.
erin Lee is a Kama‘aina, born in Ho-nolulu in1958. She attended Punahou and then the apprentice gardener program in 1976-77 at the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Kauai. She graduated from UH Hilo with a B.S. in Tropical Agriculture.
She loves eating, cooking and grow-
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Nursery in Kailua-Kona since 2010 was born and raised in Oregon and a graduate of OSU with a degree in Botany. What she loves about her job: Putting all the right components together to grow a thriving, healthy plant that succeeds in the landscape. Least favorite part of her job: Pest management. Favorite Plant: Sweet Potato. She loves its history as a canoe food plant and she uses it around the nursery as a live mulch to keep weeds down. And, it produces potatoes for the crew. Aspirations: Being involved in the movement of growing healthy plants with less pesticides and chemicals and using best, sustainable practices. Her tips to the novice nurseryman: Have a love and passion for growing things and use your spare time to build skills and knowledge to help you grow the healthiest plants.
Kristen Konan, Nursery Opera-tions and Sales Manager of Hawaiian Gar-dens in Kailua-Kona since 2008 was born and raised in Massachusetts, a graduate of Nichols College with a B.S. in Business Administration. Past experience: Orchard and seasonal retail nursery sales. Favorite part of her job: Being outside surrounded by greenery and around happy clientele who already love plants. Least favorite part of her job: The heat and getting a “red neck tan”. Favorite Plant: Although it’s hard to narrow that down, I like plants that have seasonal changes because they create excitement and anticipation when they come into bloom. Aspirations: Continuing to grow the high quality aspect of their nursery products, creating
new trends and staying ahead of what customers want. Her tips to the novice nurseryman: Get out there and find a mentor who will teach you and help you start growing and learning about plants. Get your hands dirty because experience is the best teacher.
Margo LundstroM, Owner and Operator of Sunrise Nursery, LLC., a wholesale and retail nursery in Kailua-Ko-na was born and raised in Ojai, California and grew up in orange groves. Self-taught and started growing plants in her back-yard 21 years ago as a way to work at home while raising her children. Most enjoyable part of her business: Watching plants bloom and flourish and meeting great people. “ I get to see wonderful homes when I make deliveries around Kona”. Least favorite part of the job: Insect pests and the occasional challenging customer.
Favorite plant: Hmmm. Desert roses, which are ideal for Kona… and succu-lents. It’s hard to choose; I love them all. Aspirations for the business: “I don’t want to grow any larger and someday I’d like to sell it, but for now I enjoy maintaining the business and I still have a lot ahead of me”. Parting words: “We’re open 7 days a week and I have one full time employee besides me. I’ve weathered the economy and I’m still in business. My nursery is a great place to meet the community and I’ve had people stop in and say, ‘I just need some green space before hitting Costco’. Plant-people are like animal-people; they’re compassionate and nurturing”.
Erin Lee is the Director of Landscape at Hualalai Resort and the Treasurer of the Hawaii Island Landscape Association.
aY Moir was a gift to practical
gardeners and flower arrangers. Plants had
to “earn their keep” in her Nu’uanu garden ‘Lipolani’, by being either edible, useful in flower arranging (fresh or dried) or they had to be orchids. (Her late husband Goodale Moir was a fa-mous orchidist and agronomist for HSPA)
She grew many of the bromeliads that we cherish in our gardens today. She was the first to bloom and collect seeds from Vriesia imperialis, many keiki of which grow in our gardens today.
For over 40 years Moir volunteered with a team to provide the weekly flower arrangements for the Honolulu Art museum. Most of the plants came from her garden or those of her friends. She always asked me to be on the lookout for interesting and sculptural plant materi-als from Ho‘omaluhia and Foster Botanic Garden, especially after a big windstorm. ‘Are there any treasures for the Art Acad-emy on the ground, dear?’
She wrote several concise books, the Flower arrangers Handbook and the Gar-den watcher, which noted when plants were blooming in Hawaii, and how to use them for decor and fine Hawaiian dining. She was also the main editor for her hus-band’s orchid and technical writings. She is featured in the beautiful coffee table book Floral traditions at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, which she helped Kaui Philpotts write.
The Moirs collected, grew and hy-bridized orchids and other plants from around the world. She discovered the beautiful giant yellow Heliconia carib-aea on a trip to the Dominican Republic and legally brought it home to Hawaii in 1955. It was first grown at Foster Botanic Garden.
She got one the first of 6 seeds of blue ginger from Dr Harold Lyon of Foster Botanic Garden, and was the first to grow and bloom this gorgeous flowering plant in Hawaii.
The Moirs contributed numerous rare orchids and other plants and ecological landscape design ideas to Foster Botanic Garden and Lyon Arboretum.
May Moir passed away at the age of 93 in 2002 and her legacy lives on in those of us who worked with and gardened with this akamai green handed wahine.
She perpetuated the Madeira rose from Portugal, which her mother-in-law was
WOMEN PIONEERSIN GREEN HAWAIIMay Moir, Erin Lee and Betty Crocker blazed the way for women in the landscape industry By HEIDI LEIANuENuE BORNHORSt
given by a nice Portuguese woman on Hawaii Island. She grew this fragrant pink plush cottage style rose in every garden she grew and I have it growing in all the gardens where I have lived too. When it blooms I’m reminded of all that May shared with me and with all Hawaii plant lovers.
erin Lee is a Kama‘aina, born in Ho-nolulu in1958. She attended Punahou and then the apprentice gardener program in 1976-77 at the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Kauai. She graduated from UH Hilo with a B.S. in Tropical Agriculture.
She loves eating, cooking and grow-
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By CARL EVENSEN
KRAUSSBEATRICE H.
LIC.ABC-10825
808-245-7747
Mon. - Fri. 7:30-5 / Sat. 7:30-4WEB: www.kauainursery.comMAIL: [email protected]
Toll Free: 888-345-7747 Fax: 808-245-9289
3-1550 Kaumualii HwyLihue, Kauai, HI 96766
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ing food crops. She developed a business ‘Lokelani Gardens’ and sold organic vine-ripe tomatoes, edible flowers and fresh herbs. This evolved into being the pre-mium supplier of super ono tomatoes for Merriman’s Restaurant in Kamuela. You have never tasted a real Hawaii-grown vine ripe tomato until you’ve tasted those grown by Erin and her ohana.
She is currently the landscape director for Hualalai Resort. Lee also favors native Hawaiian and xeric plants and these are put to good use in the hot, windy envi-ronment at the hotel and upscale residen-tial properties which she and her crew maintain. They also deal with high pH, saline water and coqui frogs. She over-saw the $40 million dollar renovation of the landscape after the Japan tsunami. None of her staff became unemployed during this period. They worked hard and reopened the hotel in record time.
She serves on boards for HILA, LICH and Mala‘ai: The Culinary Garden at Waimea Middle School and has volun-teered with the Outdoor Circle for Ha-waii Island. Erin knows how to get tired, overworked landscapers to come to an
evening meeting: FEED THEM! And, collect the
dinner money in advance to give people an extra incentive to attend the meeting or training.
BettY CroCKer was a member and a Past President of the Outdoor Circle, an organization that is noted for saving historical trees, fighting against billboards, and saving Diamond Head as a National Monument.
In 1994 she was one of the founding members and President of Scenic Hawaii, Inc. an organization based on total volun-teers to work with State, City and County, local businesses and volunteers to help preserve the scenic views and beauty of the state, keeping it green and clean and beauti-ful.
Betty was also on the board of the Kapiolani Park Preservation Society, and worked tirelessly for over 30 years as a volunteer to help the islands. She was on many boards to help with recycling, litter control, and beautification projects, planting and saving historical trees and perpetuating park lands for the people of Hawaii.
Betty helped save the majestic monkey-pods on Punahou Street by threatening to chain herself to one of the trees to save it as the bulldozer operator had her between the bulldozer and the tree. She would not move
and talked nicely and firmly to
the bulldozer operator to contact his boss and higher ups in the chain in the City and County of Honolulu and that is why we still have the monkeypods on that special stretch on Punahou St.
Betty passed away in 2000 and her daughters, Cicely Crocker George and Diana Crocker Doerr carry on this legacy today. Both very involved in Scenic Hawaii, Inc. and soon with celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Scenic Hawaii’s Betty Crocker Landscape Awards. These awards are given each year to garden-ers from all the islands in categories of private gardens, community gardens, professional gardens and xeriscape gardens to recognize and acknowledge some of the thousands of people who work every day to make Hawaii a more beautiful place. All of them have a love of the land and an appreciation of the natural beauty of our islands. Scenic Ha-waii salutes each and every one of them and honors the winners in each category with a Betty Crocker Landscape Award.
Heidi Bornhorst is a garden writer, landscape consultant specializing in Native Hawaiian and edible gardens, and Arborist with Pruning for Productivity. Contact her at [email protected]
eatriCe hiLMer Krauss (1903 – 1998)
was an educator and renowned ethnobotanist, beloved by generations of
students and residents of Hawaii, who dedicated much of her life to studying Hawaiian plants and their tradi-tional uses. I had the pleasure of know-ing her as an advisor, mentor and family friend and am both daunted and honored
to write this brief tribute and acknowl-edgement of one of the great pioneers of native Hawaiian gardening and landscap-ing in Hawaii.
Aunty Bea Krauss was born in 1903 on the original Kamehameha School for Boys campus, where her father, Frederick Krauss (1870 – 1971), was an agriculture instructor for the Kamehameha Manual School. Frederick Krauss joined the Hawaii Agriculture Experiment Station
16 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
LEFT: May Moir and ABOVE: Erin Lee
LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 17THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
By CARL EVENSEN
KRAUSSBEATRICE H.
LIC.ABC-10825
808-245-7747
Mon. - Fri. 7:30-5 / Sat. 7:30-4WEB: www.kauainursery.comMAIL: [email protected]
Toll Free: 888-345-7747 Fax: 808-245-9289
3-1550 Kaumualii HwyLihue, Kauai, HI 96766
CERTIFIED EXPORT NURSERYINTERISLAND SHIPPING
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE& DESIGN/BUILD
RESORT, COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIALINSTALLATION / MAINTENANCE
CCERTIFIED LANDSCAPE TECHNICIANSARBORISTS
IRRIGATION DESIGNINSTALLATION/REPAIR
KAUAI NURSEY &LANDSCAPING, INC.
60,000 SF Greenhouses 150 Acres of Plants & MaterialLARGEST NURSERY SELECTION ON KAUAI
ing food crops. She developed a business ‘Lokelani Gardens’ and sold organic vine-ripe tomatoes, edible flowers and fresh herbs. This evolved into being the pre-mium supplier of super ono tomatoes for Merriman’s Restaurant in Kamuela. You have never tasted a real Hawaii-grown vine ripe tomato until you’ve tasted those grown by Erin and her ohana.
She is currently the landscape director for Hualalai Resort. Lee also favors native Hawaiian and xeric plants and these are put to good use in the hot, windy envi-ronment at the hotel and upscale residen-tial properties which she and her crew maintain. They also deal with high pH, saline water and coqui frogs. She over-saw the $40 million dollar renovation of the landscape after the Japan tsunami. None of her staff became unemployed during this period. They worked hard and reopened the hotel in record time.
She serves on boards for HILA, LICH and Mala‘ai: The Culinary Garden at Waimea Middle School and has volun-teered with the Outdoor Circle for Ha-waii Island. Erin knows how to get tired, overworked landscapers to come to an
evening meeting: FEED THEM! And, collect the
dinner money in advance to give people an extra incentive to attend the meeting or training.
BettY CroCKer was a member and a Past President of the Outdoor Circle, an organization that is noted for saving historical trees, fighting against billboards, and saving Diamond Head as a National Monument.
In 1994 she was one of the founding members and President of Scenic Hawaii, Inc. an organization based on total volun-teers to work with State, City and County, local businesses and volunteers to help preserve the scenic views and beauty of the state, keeping it green and clean and beauti-ful.
Betty was also on the board of the Kapiolani Park Preservation Society, and worked tirelessly for over 30 years as a volunteer to help the islands. She was on many boards to help with recycling, litter control, and beautification projects, planting and saving historical trees and perpetuating park lands for the people of Hawaii.
Betty helped save the majestic monkey-pods on Punahou Street by threatening to chain herself to one of the trees to save it as the bulldozer operator had her between the bulldozer and the tree. She would not move
and talked nicely and firmly to
the bulldozer operator to contact his boss and higher ups in the chain in the City and County of Honolulu and that is why we still have the monkeypods on that special stretch on Punahou St.
Betty passed away in 2000 and her daughters, Cicely Crocker George and Diana Crocker Doerr carry on this legacy today. Both very involved in Scenic Hawaii, Inc. and soon with celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Scenic Hawaii’s Betty Crocker Landscape Awards. These awards are given each year to garden-ers from all the islands in categories of private gardens, community gardens, professional gardens and xeriscape gardens to recognize and acknowledge some of the thousands of people who work every day to make Hawaii a more beautiful place. All of them have a love of the land and an appreciation of the natural beauty of our islands. Scenic Ha-waii salutes each and every one of them and honors the winners in each category with a Betty Crocker Landscape Award.
Heidi Bornhorst is a garden writer, landscape consultant specializing in Native Hawaiian and edible gardens, and Arborist with Pruning for Productivity. Contact her at [email protected]
eatriCe hiLMer Krauss (1903 – 1998)
was an educator and renowned ethnobotanist, beloved by generations of
students and residents of Hawaii, who dedicated much of her life to studying Hawaiian plants and their tradi-tional uses. I had the pleasure of know-ing her as an advisor, mentor and family friend and am both daunted and honored
to write this brief tribute and acknowl-edgement of one of the great pioneers of native Hawaiian gardening and landscap-ing in Hawaii.
Aunty Bea Krauss was born in 1903 on the original Kamehameha School for Boys campus, where her father, Frederick Krauss (1870 – 1971), was an agriculture instructor for the Kamehameha Manual School. Frederick Krauss joined the Hawaii Agriculture Experiment Station
16 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
LEFT: May Moir and ABOVE: Erin Lee
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EKO Compost is made in Hawaii . It ’s an integral part of theislands ’ ecosystem. It ’s also one of the Founding Members of the
U.S. Composting Council ’s Seal of Testing Assurance Program.
You can find EKO Compost at :Maui EKO ’s Plant
Central Maui Landfill - Pulehu Rd . Puunene8 0 8 - 5 7 2 - 8 8 4 4
Hawaii Grower ProductsMaui , Lanai & Molokai : 8 0 8 - 8 7 7 - 6 6 3 6
Big Island : 8 0 8 - 3 2 6 - 7 5 5 5
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in 1906 and served the College of Hawaii as a Professor of Agriculture starting in 1911. In 1913 he moved his family (Bea-trice was the second of four children) to Haiku, Maui where he started the New Era Homestead Farm as a research and demonstration farm for crop and ani-mal production. They were completely self-sufficient, growing vegetables, raising pigs, chickens and cattle and producing
milk, butter and cheese. One can imagine that Beatrice developed her love of plants and science through this rich and varied experience. Frederick Krauss went on to become Director of the Agricultural Extension Service in Hawaii and had the distinction of receiving the first honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Hawaii in 1923.
The Krauss family returned to Manoa
in 1922 to a property on Parker Place where Beatrice lived for the rest of her life. She graduated from Punahou School in 1922 and then talked her way into the University of Hawaii agriculture program, becoming in 1926 the first woman to earn a degree in agriculture, which at the time was considered not to be a suitable dis-cipline for women. Beatrice then started a long and productive career as a plant
physiologist, working at the Pineapple Research Institute from 1926 to 1968. She earned a Master of Science degree at UH in 1930 and also carried out research and further graduate study at the University of Berlin and Cornell University. She was an affiliate member of the Graduate Faculty in Botany at University of Hawaii and also served as a consultant in Indone-sia and Iran.
Upon retirement, Beatrice spent five years developing and teaching a Hawai-ian ethnobotany course at the University of Hawaii, which became so popular that she had to teach up to six sections per semester, because she refused to teach a large lecture class. My mom was in Aunty Bea’s first ethnobotany class and remem-bers receiving the mimeographed read-ings every class as Bea finished writing them. This was a time of cultural awak-ening for many Hawaiian students and Beatrice made a significant contribution to this Hawaiian cultural renaissance. Beatrice also refused to sign a loyalty oath required of all state employees and so was not paid for any of this teaching. “She argued that she didn’t need to sign a piece of paper to show her loyalty, and she pointed out the a ‘real’ communist would be the first person to sign the document anyway” (Lamoureux, 1998). In 1988, Beatrice (like her father) was awarded an honorary doctorate by UH Manoa.
After retiring from teaching, Bea-trice began what UH Professor Charles Lamoureux called her third career at the Lyon Arboretum, conducting informal classes and teaching plant crafts such as oshibana (pressed flower pictures) to preschoolers on up to senior citizens. She continued research in Hawaiian ethno-botany and medicinal plants, eventually
publishing several major books, including Plants in Hawaiian Culture (1993) and Manoa, the Story of a Valley (1994). She produced many publications while serv-ing as a research associate at the arbo-retum, including Native Plants Used As Medicine in Hawaii, which subsequently was developed into another major book, Plants in Hawaiian Medicine (2001).
Beatrice Krauss received many well deserved honors including “Outstand-ing Alumnus of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources” (1998) and the YWCA named her one of the outstanding women of Hawaii. On her 80th birthday, Lyon Arboretum dedicated the Beatrice H. Krauss Hawaiian Ethno-botanical Garden in her honor. Bea found the first sign placed there unsatisfactory because her name was larger than the letters for Ethnobotanical Garden. This was corrected and the sign now tops a Hawaiian-style stone wall built to sur-round part of the garden. The garden has become a beautiful showcase of plants that were important in Hawaiian culture with over 60 different species, including
the 27 “canoe plants” brought to Hawaii by the original Polynesian settlers. [pic-ture of the Ethnobotanical Garden sign].
Beatrice Krauss’ life spanned the 20th century and while she is truly missed, her legacy of ethnobotanical knowledge and public service lives on through her publications, course materials, plant col-lections and gardens, and mostly through the lives of thousands of students, col-leagues, friends and community groups who loved her and whose lives were transformed by her teaching and spirit of aloha.
Carl I. Evensen is the Interim Associate Dean and Associate Director for Exten-sion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and a member of the LICH Board of Directors.
References:Lamoureux, Charles, “Aunty Beatrice
Krauss”, The Kukui Leaf, Vol. XXV, No. 3, May 1998
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•No Pipes
•No Ponds
•No Rutting
•No $ Overruns
•No Problem
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EKO Compost is made in Hawaii . It ’s an integral part of theislands ’ ecosystem. It ’s also one of the Founding Members of the
U.S. Composting Council ’s Seal of Testing Assurance Program.
You can find EKO Compost at :Maui EKO ’s Plant
Central Maui Landfill - Pulehu Rd . Puunene8 0 8 - 5 7 2 - 8 8 4 4
Hawaii Grower ProductsMaui , Lanai & Molokai : 8 0 8 - 8 7 7 - 6 6 3 6
Big Island : 8 0 8 - 3 2 6 - 7 5 5 5
Pacific Agricultural Sales & ServiceOahu & Kauai : 8 0 8 - 6 8 2 - 5 1 1 3
MadeOn
Maui
C O M P O S T I N GC O U N C I LUS
Seal of Testing Assurance [email protected], Maui
in 1906 and served the College of Hawaii as a Professor of Agriculture starting in 1911. In 1913 he moved his family (Bea-trice was the second of four children) to Haiku, Maui where he started the New Era Homestead Farm as a research and demonstration farm for crop and ani-mal production. They were completely self-sufficient, growing vegetables, raising pigs, chickens and cattle and producing
milk, butter and cheese. One can imagine that Beatrice developed her love of plants and science through this rich and varied experience. Frederick Krauss went on to become Director of the Agricultural Extension Service in Hawaii and had the distinction of receiving the first honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Hawaii in 1923.
The Krauss family returned to Manoa
in 1922 to a property on Parker Place where Beatrice lived for the rest of her life. She graduated from Punahou School in 1922 and then talked her way into the University of Hawaii agriculture program, becoming in 1926 the first woman to earn a degree in agriculture, which at the time was considered not to be a suitable dis-cipline for women. Beatrice then started a long and productive career as a plant
physiologist, working at the Pineapple Research Institute from 1926 to 1968. She earned a Master of Science degree at UH in 1930 and also carried out research and further graduate study at the University of Berlin and Cornell University. She was an affiliate member of the Graduate Faculty in Botany at University of Hawaii and also served as a consultant in Indone-sia and Iran.
Upon retirement, Beatrice spent five years developing and teaching a Hawai-ian ethnobotany course at the University of Hawaii, which became so popular that she had to teach up to six sections per semester, because she refused to teach a large lecture class. My mom was in Aunty Bea’s first ethnobotany class and remem-bers receiving the mimeographed read-ings every class as Bea finished writing them. This was a time of cultural awak-ening for many Hawaiian students and Beatrice made a significant contribution to this Hawaiian cultural renaissance. Beatrice also refused to sign a loyalty oath required of all state employees and so was not paid for any of this teaching. “She argued that she didn’t need to sign a piece of paper to show her loyalty, and she pointed out the a ‘real’ communist would be the first person to sign the document anyway” (Lamoureux, 1998). In 1988, Beatrice (like her father) was awarded an honorary doctorate by UH Manoa.
After retiring from teaching, Bea-trice began what UH Professor Charles Lamoureux called her third career at the Lyon Arboretum, conducting informal classes and teaching plant crafts such as oshibana (pressed flower pictures) to preschoolers on up to senior citizens. She continued research in Hawaiian ethno-botany and medicinal plants, eventually
publishing several major books, including Plants in Hawaiian Culture (1993) and Manoa, the Story of a Valley (1994). She produced many publications while serv-ing as a research associate at the arbo-retum, including Native Plants Used As Medicine in Hawaii, which subsequently was developed into another major book, Plants in Hawaiian Medicine (2001).
Beatrice Krauss received many well deserved honors including “Outstand-ing Alumnus of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources” (1998) and the YWCA named her one of the outstanding women of Hawaii. On her 80th birthday, Lyon Arboretum dedicated the Beatrice H. Krauss Hawaiian Ethno-botanical Garden in her honor. Bea found the first sign placed there unsatisfactory because her name was larger than the letters for Ethnobotanical Garden. This was corrected and the sign now tops a Hawaiian-style stone wall built to sur-round part of the garden. The garden has become a beautiful showcase of plants that were important in Hawaiian culture with over 60 different species, including
the 27 “canoe plants” brought to Hawaii by the original Polynesian settlers. [pic-ture of the Ethnobotanical Garden sign].
Beatrice Krauss’ life spanned the 20th century and while she is truly missed, her legacy of ethnobotanical knowledge and public service lives on through her publications, course materials, plant col-lections and gardens, and mostly through the lives of thousands of students, col-leagues, friends and community groups who loved her and whose lives were transformed by her teaching and spirit of aloha.
Carl I. Evensen is the Interim Associate Dean and Associate Director for Exten-sion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and a member of the LICH Board of Directors.
References:Lamoureux, Charles, “Aunty Beatrice
Krauss”, The Kukui Leaf, Vol. XXV, No. 3, May 1998
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RECERTIFICATION CREDITS may be earned by certified applicators that score at least 70% on the set of comprehension evalu-ation questions about the “recertification” articles in this newsletter. These articles have a title which ends with “(recertification)”. However, credits may not necessarily be ap-plicable for the following categories: Private 2, Private 3, Commercial 7f, and Commercial 11. The question sets (quizzes) are written and administered by the Hawaii Depart-ment of Agriculture (HDOA) staff. Ask about earning recertification credits at one of these HDOA offices area code (808): Kauai 274-3069, Oahu 973-9409, Maui, Lanai and Molokai (call Hilo, toll free) 984-2400 ext. 44142 followed by #, Hawaii 974-4143. Over 95 percent of exposure to pesticides during spray application is through the skin. The right gloves can protect you from much of this exposure, but not if you don‘t wear them. You or your employees may hesitate to use gloves if they are hard to get on or off, too hot or uncomfortable, clumsy to work in, or never handy when you need them.
Choosing the right gloves, as you will see in this article, entails a series of compromises.
Categories The Precautionary Statements section
of the pesticide label gives specific infor-mation on personal protective clothing and equipment to be worn while mix-ing, loading, and applying the product. This includes EPA chemical-resistant
categories, from A to H. These categories refer to the carrier solvent and its con-centration in the pesticide formulation (see Table).
Choosing the “right” gloves calls for a series of compromises. You may need several kinds of gloves.
a. Any dry or water-based pesticide formulation B. Any pesticide with acetate as the carrier solvent C. Any pesticide with alcohol as the carrier solvent d. Any pesticide with halogenated hydrocarbons as the carrier solvent e. Any pesticide with ketones (e.g. acetone) as the carrier solvent F. Any pesticide with ketone and aromatic petroleum distillates mixture as the carrier solvent g. Any pesticide with aliphatic petroleum distillates (e.g. kerosene, petroleum oil, mineral oil) as the carrier solvent h. Any pesticide that has aromatic petroleum distillates (e.g. xylene) as the carrier solvent
Materials
EPA ranks personal protective materials according to their resistance to chemi-cal solvents. There are a number of glove materials available within each carrier solvent category (see Table). Check the label for glove material recommended for each pesticide.
The following evaluations are from the University of Illinois. Prices are listed only for their comparative values. Photos are courtesy of the University of Florida IFAS Extension Publication #Pl-120.
■ barrier laminate (foil type): the most chemically resistant but uncomfort able; poor dexterity due to design ($7/pair)
≥ means “greater than or equal to”
■ butyl rubber ≥ 14 mils (i.e. greater than or equal to 14 mils): a synthetic rubber; resistant to gas and water vapors; good dexterity ($20/pair) ■ natural rubber ≥ 14 mils: for dry or water-based formulations ($12-19/pair) ■ nitrile rubber ≥ 14 mils: resists punc ture better than other materials; good dexterity, slip-proof grip; comes in range of lengths, thicknesses ($3-9/pair) ■ neoprene rubber ≥ 14 mils: synthetic rubber; good dexterity; stays flexible at low temperatures ($2-3/pair) ■ polyethylene: limited pesticide uses ($1-10/pair) ■ PVC ≥ 14 mils: limited pesticide uses ($4/pair) ■ Viton ≥ 14 mils: the most chemically resistant rubber glove available; thick but very flexible and comfortable to wear ($150-175/pair)
resistance to chemicals
Gloves offer varying levels of protection and their chemical resistance and longev-ity are referred to as High, Moderate, Slight, and None (see Table). When test-ing gloves, the comparative measure of chemical resistance for the glove material is called break-through time. This is the time it takes for a specific pure chemical to soak through the glove. The longer the time, the better the protection, but an 8-hour break-through time is common.
■ Highly resistant gloves should be
Selection Category Listed on Pesticide Label based on carrier solvent
Barrier Laminate
Butyl Rubber ≥ 14 mils
Nitrile Rubber ≥ 14 mils
Neoprene Rubber ≥14 mils
Natural Rubber ≥14 mils
Poly-ethylene
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) ≥14 mils
Viton ≥14 mils
A (dry & water based foundations)
HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH
B HIGH HIGH SLIGHT SLIGHT NONE SLIGHT SLIGHT SLIGHT C HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH MOD MOD HIGH HIGH D HIGH HIGH MOD MOD NONE NONE NONE SLIGHT E HIGH SLIGHT HIGH HIGH SLIGHT NONE MOD HIGH F HIGH HIGH HIGH MOD SLIGHT NONE SLIGHT HIGH G HIGH SLIGHT SLIGHT SLIGHT NONE NONE NONE HIGH H HIGH SLIGHT SLIGHT SLIGHT NONE NONE NONE HIGH Only unlined gloves or gloves with separable liners may be used.
GLOVES(RECERTIFICATION)By CHARLES NAGAMINE
See Gloves on page 29
cleaned or replaced at the end of each day‘s work; rinse off all pesticides at rest breaks. ■ Moderately resistant gloves may need to be cleaned or re-placed within an hour or two of contact.
■ Slightly resistant gloves may need cleaning or replacement within 10 minutes of contact. ■ None says this glove is not resistant to the chemical in this category. Do not wear personal protective clothing
or equipment made from this material if contact with the pesticide is possible. table. EPA rating of personal protective materials for each carrier solvent category.
20 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012 LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 21THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
RECERTIFICATION CREDITS may be earned by certified applicators that score at least 70% on the set of comprehension evalu-ation questions about the “recertification” articles in this newsletter. These articles have a title which ends with “(recertification)”. However, credits may not necessarily be ap-plicable for the following categories: Private 2, Private 3, Commercial 7f, and Commercial 11. The question sets (quizzes) are written and administered by the Hawaii Depart-ment of Agriculture (HDOA) staff. Ask about earning recertification credits at one of these HDOA offices area code (808): Kauai 274-3069, Oahu 973-9409, Maui, Lanai and Molokai (call Hilo, toll free) 984-2400 ext. 44142 followed by #, Hawaii 974-4143. Over 95 percent of exposure to pesticides during spray application is through the skin. The right gloves can protect you from much of this exposure, but not if you don‘t wear them. You or your employees may hesitate to use gloves if they are hard to get on or off, too hot or uncomfortable, clumsy to work in, or never handy when you need them.
Choosing the right gloves, as you will see in this article, entails a series of compromises.
Categories The Precautionary Statements section
of the pesticide label gives specific infor-mation on personal protective clothing and equipment to be worn while mix-ing, loading, and applying the product. This includes EPA chemical-resistant
categories, from A to H. These categories refer to the carrier solvent and its con-centration in the pesticide formulation (see Table).
Choosing the “right” gloves calls for a series of compromises. You may need several kinds of gloves.
a. Any dry or water-based pesticide formulation B. Any pesticide with acetate as the carrier solvent C. Any pesticide with alcohol as the carrier solvent d. Any pesticide with halogenated hydrocarbons as the carrier solvent e. Any pesticide with ketones (e.g. acetone) as the carrier solvent F. Any pesticide with ketone and aromatic petroleum distillates mixture as the carrier solvent g. Any pesticide with aliphatic petroleum distillates (e.g. kerosene, petroleum oil, mineral oil) as the carrier solvent h. Any pesticide that has aromatic petroleum distillates (e.g. xylene) as the carrier solvent
Materials
EPA ranks personal protective materials according to their resistance to chemi-cal solvents. There are a number of glove materials available within each carrier solvent category (see Table). Check the label for glove material recommended for each pesticide.
The following evaluations are from the University of Illinois. Prices are listed only for their comparative values. Photos are courtesy of the University of Florida IFAS Extension Publication #Pl-120.
■ barrier laminate (foil type): the most chemically resistant but uncomfort able; poor dexterity due to design ($7/pair)
≥ means “greater than or equal to”
■ butyl rubber ≥ 14 mils (i.e. greater than or equal to 14 mils): a synthetic rubber; resistant to gas and water vapors; good dexterity ($20/pair) ■ natural rubber ≥ 14 mils: for dry or water-based formulations ($12-19/pair) ■ nitrile rubber ≥ 14 mils: resists punc ture better than other materials; good dexterity, slip-proof grip; comes in range of lengths, thicknesses ($3-9/pair) ■ neoprene rubber ≥ 14 mils: synthetic rubber; good dexterity; stays flexible at low temperatures ($2-3/pair) ■ polyethylene: limited pesticide uses ($1-10/pair) ■ PVC ≥ 14 mils: limited pesticide uses ($4/pair) ■ Viton ≥ 14 mils: the most chemically resistant rubber glove available; thick but very flexible and comfortable to wear ($150-175/pair)
resistance to chemicals
Gloves offer varying levels of protection and their chemical resistance and longev-ity are referred to as High, Moderate, Slight, and None (see Table). When test-ing gloves, the comparative measure of chemical resistance for the glove material is called break-through time. This is the time it takes for a specific pure chemical to soak through the glove. The longer the time, the better the protection, but an 8-hour break-through time is common.
■ Highly resistant gloves should be
Selection Category Listed on Pesticide Label based on carrier solvent
Barrier Laminate
Butyl Rubber ≥ 14 mils
Nitrile Rubber ≥ 14 mils
Neoprene Rubber ≥14 mils
Natural Rubber ≥14 mils
Poly-ethylene
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) ≥14 mils
Viton ≥14 mils
A (dry & water based foundations)
HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH
B HIGH HIGH SLIGHT SLIGHT NONE SLIGHT SLIGHT SLIGHT C HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH MOD MOD HIGH HIGH D HIGH HIGH MOD MOD NONE NONE NONE SLIGHT E HIGH SLIGHT HIGH HIGH SLIGHT NONE MOD HIGH F HIGH HIGH HIGH MOD SLIGHT NONE SLIGHT HIGH G HIGH SLIGHT SLIGHT SLIGHT NONE NONE NONE HIGH H HIGH SLIGHT SLIGHT SLIGHT NONE NONE NONE HIGH Only unlined gloves or gloves with separable liners may be used.
GLOVES(RECERTIFICATION)By CHARLES NAGAMINE
See Gloves on page 29
cleaned or replaced at the end of each day‘s work; rinse off all pesticides at rest breaks. ■ Moderately resistant gloves may need to be cleaned or re-placed within an hour or two of contact.
■ Slightly resistant gloves may need cleaning or replacement within 10 minutes of contact. ■ None says this glove is not resistant to the chemical in this category. Do not wear personal protective clothing
or equipment made from this material if contact with the pesticide is possible. table. EPA rating of personal protective materials for each carrier solvent category.
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1. hosts: Restricted to Citrus and closely related Rutaceae, such as mock orange.
2. damage: High populations of Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) cause stunting and twisting of young shoots and severe curl-ing of leaves.
3. distribution: Hawaiian Islands – Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, and Lanai. Other U.S. distribution – Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, California, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Worldwide distribution – southeast Asia, Reunion, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, southern Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, Argentina, and the island of Guadeloupe in the Carib-bean.
4. identification: Adults are small (3-4 mm) with mottled brown wings and are active, jumping insects. The eggs are bright yellow and are deposited on newly emerging plant shoots. Nymphs are green
or dull orange and feed on young leaves and stems.
5. Vectors: ACP is known to vector Citrus Greening Disease, also known as Huanglongbing or Yellow Dragon Disease. This disease has devastated citrus in Asia, Africa, and Brazil. The disease is caused by a bacteria, Candidatus Liberib-acter asiaticus Garnier. Symptoms include mottling and/or interveinal yellowing of citrus leaves and misshapen, green, and bitter-tasting fruit. Most citrus are susceptible to CGD. Mock orange is not a known host of the disease. There is no known cure for this disease and the only option is to destroy infected trees. Thus
far, Citrus Greening Disease has not been found in Hawaii. For more information and photos of Citrus Greening Disease, visit www.citrusgreeningtraining.org/.
source: State of Hawaii Department of Agricul-
ture New Pest Advisory No. 06-01 Updated February 2009, Asian Citrus Psyllid, http://hawaii.gov/hdoa/pi/ppc/npa-1/npa06-01-ACP.pdf
Carol Kwan is the President of Carol Kwan Consulting, a Certified Arborist, and the Secretary of Aloha Arborist Association.
TOP: Adult Asian citrus psyllid.
LEFT: Enlarged photo of an adult Asian citrus psyllid. Actual length is 3-4 mm.
Phot
o: R
. Heu
By CAROL KWAN
ASIAN CITRUSPSYLLID (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama)
he American Society of Agricultural and Biological
Engineers (ASABE) has initi-ated a project to develop a new
standard, S627, Standardized Testing Protocol for Weather-based or Soil Moisture-based Landscape Irrigation Control Devices. Those with interest and expertise in the subject matter are invited to participate in the project.
As the demand on water resources and the importance of water use efficiency grow, water agencies, regulators, land owners, landscape managers, and others are relying more heavily on irrigation controllers that use real-time weather or soil-moisture data to determine irrigation
needs and scheduling. The new docu-ment will standardize the methods for testing such controllers.
ASABE is recognized worldwide as a standards developing organization for food, agricultural, and biological systems, with more than 240 standards currently in publication. For information on, or to participate in the development of, this or any other ASABE standard, contact Travis Tsunemori (269-932-7009, [email protected]). A current listing of all ASABE stan-dards projects can be found on the ASABE website at http://www.asabe.org/projects.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is an interna-tional scientific and educational organi-
zation dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Its 9,000 members, from more than 100 countries, are consultants, managers, researchers, and others who have the training and experience to un-derstand the interrelationships between technology and living systems. Further information on the Society can be obtained by contacting ASABE at (269) 429-0300 (phone) or (269) 429-3852 (fax); [email protected]. Details can also be found at http://www.asabe.org/.
IRRIGATION CONTROLLERS
ASABE TO DEVELOP STANDARD FOR
“SMART”
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REFLECT. RETHINK. REDOWHY PUT OFF TIL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY
2333 AlAhAo PlAce #1Fwww.FuturAstonehAwAii.comlic #c23741
RESPONSIBLE ECO FRIENDLY HARDSCAPE PRODUCTS BROUGHT TO YOU BY FUTURA STONE OF HAWAII
841-7433
GO GREEN WITH AN AQUAPAVE PERMEABLE PAVER SYSTEM
• Runoff Reduction • Oil Contaminates Management • Groundwater Table Recharging • Roof Water Management • Pollutant’s Filtering & Treatment • Slip & Skid Resistant • Up to 12 LEED Points • 30–40 Year Lifespan • Lower Construction & Life Cycle Costs • Geothermal Systems
WWW.AQUAPAVE.COM
The Aquapave Permeable Paver System or On–site Stormwater Source Control System can
be installed perfectly level.
No sloping required.
DRAINAGE PROBLEMS?Aquapave can inf i ltrate up to 354 inches of
runoff an hour
A PAVING SYSTEM WE CAN ALL LIVE WITH
1. hosts: Restricted to Citrus and closely related Rutaceae, such as mock orange.
2. damage: High populations of Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) cause stunting and twisting of young shoots and severe curl-ing of leaves.
3. distribution: Hawaiian Islands – Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, and Lanai. Other U.S. distribution – Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, California, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Worldwide distribution – southeast Asia, Reunion, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, southern Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, Argentina, and the island of Guadeloupe in the Carib-bean.
4. identification: Adults are small (3-4 mm) with mottled brown wings and are active, jumping insects. The eggs are bright yellow and are deposited on newly emerging plant shoots. Nymphs are green
or dull orange and feed on young leaves and stems.
5. Vectors: ACP is known to vector Citrus Greening Disease, also known as Huanglongbing or Yellow Dragon Disease. This disease has devastated citrus in Asia, Africa, and Brazil. The disease is caused by a bacteria, Candidatus Liberib-acter asiaticus Garnier. Symptoms include mottling and/or interveinal yellowing of citrus leaves and misshapen, green, and bitter-tasting fruit. Most citrus are susceptible to CGD. Mock orange is not a known host of the disease. There is no known cure for this disease and the only option is to destroy infected trees. Thus
far, Citrus Greening Disease has not been found in Hawaii. For more information and photos of Citrus Greening Disease, visit www.citrusgreeningtraining.org/.
source: State of Hawaii Department of Agricul-
ture New Pest Advisory No. 06-01 Updated February 2009, Asian Citrus Psyllid, http://hawaii.gov/hdoa/pi/ppc/npa-1/npa06-01-ACP.pdf
Carol Kwan is the President of Carol Kwan Consulting, a Certified Arborist, and the Secretary of Aloha Arborist Association.
TOP: Adult Asian citrus psyllid.
LEFT: Enlarged photo of an adult Asian citrus psyllid. Actual length is 3-4 mm.
Phot
o: R
. Heu
By CAROL KWAN
ASIAN CITRUSPSYLLID (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama)
he American Society of Agricultural and Biological
Engineers (ASABE) has initi-ated a project to develop a new
standard, S627, Standardized Testing Protocol for Weather-based or Soil Moisture-based Landscape Irrigation Control Devices. Those with interest and expertise in the subject matter are invited to participate in the project.
As the demand on water resources and the importance of water use efficiency grow, water agencies, regulators, land owners, landscape managers, and others are relying more heavily on irrigation controllers that use real-time weather or soil-moisture data to determine irrigation
needs and scheduling. The new docu-ment will standardize the methods for testing such controllers.
ASABE is recognized worldwide as a standards developing organization for food, agricultural, and biological systems, with more than 240 standards currently in publication. For information on, or to participate in the development of, this or any other ASABE standard, contact Travis Tsunemori (269-932-7009, [email protected]). A current listing of all ASABE stan-dards projects can be found on the ASABE website at http://www.asabe.org/projects.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is an interna-tional scientific and educational organi-
zation dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Its 9,000 members, from more than 100 countries, are consultants, managers, researchers, and others who have the training and experience to un-derstand the interrelationships between technology and living systems. Further information on the Society can be obtained by contacting ASABE at (269) 429-0300 (phone) or (269) 429-3852 (fax); [email protected]. Details can also be found at http://www.asabe.org/.
IRRIGATION CONTROLLERS
ASABE TO DEVELOP STANDARD FOR
“SMART”
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Honolulu Zoo Children’s Discov-ery Forest, which will be created at
the Honolulu Zoo in Waikiki on Oahu. Leland Miyano, Jason Umemoto, and
Leonard Bisel created the Discovery Forest Conceptual Plan, which includes three demonstration zones: strand veg-etation, dryland-mesic forest species, and Polynesian-introduced species and culti-vars. The vision for the Discovery Forest is one in which the vast cultural, natural and historical attributes of Hawaii’s endemic and indigenous flora, fauna, and geology is shared; demonstrating the bond that must be formed between people and aina if both are to thrive. The Discovery Forest will serve as an ongo-ing outdoor educational setting in which visitors will learn about the importance of the sustainability of native and Poly-nesian plantings within a framework of Hawaiian cultural values.
The Honolulu Zoo Children’s Dis-covery Forest presents a great opportu-nity for city dwellers, especially kids, to experience some of the unique flora that make up Hawaii’s ecosystems. There is an ever-increasing problem that is spreading in our modern, technological society: Nature Deficit Disorder. There are children and adults, who have not, or
may never, visit a Hawaiian forest filled with endemic plants. By constructing a representation of Hawaiian ecosystems in a venue easily accessible to zoo visitors; a wonderful educational garden will help to introduce the public to the amazing biodiversity of native plants here. Nature is rarely so organized and condensed for general appreciation, but gardens often spark a catalyst in one’s mind to move on to larger environmental issues.
The project site is near the zoo entrance and adjacent to the future site of a Native Hawaiian Village. The Discovery Forest will be a representation of natural eco-systems and the sustainable agricultural systems established by the Hawaiians. The exhibit will be designed to demonstrate culturally significant Hawaiian plant spe-cies, the significance of place, and the kule-ana of malama aina (responsibility to care for the land) by integrating Hawaiian forest ecosystems, forest stewardship opportuni-ties, traditional, and innovative land-based education for residents and visitors.
Hawaii’s flora and fauna are among the most threatened and endangered spe-cies in the world. Today, many species are down to the last few. Just in my lifetime, I have witnessed many extinctions and there were many more extinctions before that. As time goes on, there will be more extinctions, even of those species that are considered abundant today. We can slow or reverse this process, but it takes the edu-cation of the public. The Discovery Forest will be one part of a movement to delay the declines. If we do not love the unique, endemic, indigenous, and Polynesian-introduced species, they will disappear. However, loving species alone will not save them. We must think of the entire island chain as a microcosm of the world. Clean air, clean water, protection of the water-shed, and a whole host of interrelated envi-ronmental issues, cannot be segregated out. We need a greater understanding of nature to carry us into the future. The Honolulu Zoo Children’s Discovery Forest will be one more step forward in the larger picture of a bright future. A landscape will be planted, but we will be growing hope.
HFIA was recently awarded a $49,100 Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA) Natural Resources Program award, administered by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advance-ment (CNHA), for the Discovery Forest. Other groups who have expressed an inter-est in assisting with the project include Paepae o Heeia, Conservation Council of Hawaii, Scenic Hawaii, Inc., Manoa Heritage Center, Kualoa-Heeia Ecumeni-
cal Youth Project (KEY Project), Polynesian Voyaging Society, and Oahu Resource Conservation & Development Council.
HFIA’s mission is to promote healthy and productive forests and a sustainable forest industry through forest manage-ment, education, planning, information exchange, and advocacy. In addition to the Honolulu Zoo Children’s Discovery Forest, HFIA sponsors the annual Hawaii’s Woodshow Na La‘au o Hawai‘i; promotes the Hawaii’s Wood branding program; and provides restoration and education at several native forests in West Hawai‘i. Visit us on the web at www.hawaiiforest.org.
24 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
Huelo Seastack, with the last intact lowland Pritchardia forest in the main Hawaiian Islands, Huelo Islet, Moloka‘i.
RIGHT: The endangered Oahu tree snail, Achatinella mustelina.
Phot
os: L
elan
d M
iyan
o
By LELAND MIyANO
CHILDREN’SDISCOVERY
FORESTDiscovery Forest Conceptual Plan created by Leland Miyano, Jason Umemoto, and Leonard Bisel.
The public will have the opportunity to experience a natural ecosystem
Leland Miyano is a landscape designer, sculptor, author, and naturalist. His men-tor in landscape, Roberto Burle Marx, was the most influential landscape designer of the 20th Century. As a naturalist, Miyano’s research of Hawaii’s endemic fauna and flora, date back to the 1960’s. Former United States Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin, writes “Those of us who know him have been aware for years that Leland is a true original, a living treasure among us, and it is fortunate for all of us that his sculpture, with all its representations of the irreplaceable life of these islands, is receiving some of the attention and honor it deserves.”
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$36599$36599
If you plan to buy new outdoor power equipment for your crew this spring, consider joining the ECHO and & Shindaiwa Fleet Program.
he Hawai‘i Forest Industry Association (HFIA), the Hawai‘i
Forest Institute (HFI), and com-munity partners are planning the
Honolulu Zoo Children’s Discov-ery Forest, which will be created at
the Honolulu Zoo in Waikiki on Oahu. Leland Miyano, Jason Umemoto, and
Leonard Bisel created the Discovery Forest Conceptual Plan, which includes three demonstration zones: strand veg-etation, dryland-mesic forest species, and Polynesian-introduced species and culti-vars. The vision for the Discovery Forest is one in which the vast cultural, natural and historical attributes of Hawaii’s endemic and indigenous flora, fauna, and geology is shared; demonstrating the bond that must be formed between people and aina if both are to thrive. The Discovery Forest will serve as an ongo-ing outdoor educational setting in which visitors will learn about the importance of the sustainability of native and Poly-nesian plantings within a framework of Hawaiian cultural values.
The Honolulu Zoo Children’s Dis-covery Forest presents a great opportu-nity for city dwellers, especially kids, to experience some of the unique flora that make up Hawaii’s ecosystems. There is an ever-increasing problem that is spreading in our modern, technological society: Nature Deficit Disorder. There are children and adults, who have not, or
may never, visit a Hawaiian forest filled with endemic plants. By constructing a representation of Hawaiian ecosystems in a venue easily accessible to zoo visitors; a wonderful educational garden will help to introduce the public to the amazing biodiversity of native plants here. Nature is rarely so organized and condensed for general appreciation, but gardens often spark a catalyst in one’s mind to move on to larger environmental issues.
The project site is near the zoo entrance and adjacent to the future site of a Native Hawaiian Village. The Discovery Forest will be a representation of natural eco-systems and the sustainable agricultural systems established by the Hawaiians. The exhibit will be designed to demonstrate culturally significant Hawaiian plant spe-cies, the significance of place, and the kule-ana of malama aina (responsibility to care for the land) by integrating Hawaiian forest ecosystems, forest stewardship opportuni-ties, traditional, and innovative land-based education for residents and visitors.
Hawaii’s flora and fauna are among the most threatened and endangered spe-cies in the world. Today, many species are down to the last few. Just in my lifetime, I have witnessed many extinctions and there were many more extinctions before that. As time goes on, there will be more extinctions, even of those species that are considered abundant today. We can slow or reverse this process, but it takes the edu-cation of the public. The Discovery Forest will be one part of a movement to delay the declines. If we do not love the unique, endemic, indigenous, and Polynesian-introduced species, they will disappear. However, loving species alone will not save them. We must think of the entire island chain as a microcosm of the world. Clean air, clean water, protection of the water-shed, and a whole host of interrelated envi-ronmental issues, cannot be segregated out. We need a greater understanding of nature to carry us into the future. The Honolulu Zoo Children’s Discovery Forest will be one more step forward in the larger picture of a bright future. A landscape will be planted, but we will be growing hope.
HFIA was recently awarded a $49,100 Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA) Natural Resources Program award, administered by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advance-ment (CNHA), for the Discovery Forest. Other groups who have expressed an inter-est in assisting with the project include Paepae o Heeia, Conservation Council of Hawaii, Scenic Hawaii, Inc., Manoa Heritage Center, Kualoa-Heeia Ecumeni-
cal Youth Project (KEY Project), Polynesian Voyaging Society, and Oahu Resource Conservation & Development Council.
HFIA’s mission is to promote healthy and productive forests and a sustainable forest industry through forest manage-ment, education, planning, information exchange, and advocacy. In addition to the Honolulu Zoo Children’s Discovery Forest, HFIA sponsors the annual Hawaii’s Woodshow Na La‘au o Hawai‘i; promotes the Hawaii’s Wood branding program; and provides restoration and education at several native forests in West Hawai‘i. Visit us on the web at www.hawaiiforest.org.
24 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
Huelo Seastack, with the last intact lowland Pritchardia forest in the main Hawaiian Islands, Huelo Islet, Moloka‘i.
RIGHT: The endangered Oahu tree snail, Achatinella mustelina.
Phot
os: L
elan
d M
iyan
o
By LELAND MIyANO
CHILDREN’SDISCOVERY
FORESTDiscovery Forest Conceptual Plan created by Leland Miyano, Jason Umemoto, and Leonard Bisel.
The public will have the opportunity to experience a natural ecosystem
Leland Miyano is a landscape designer, sculptor, author, and naturalist. His men-tor in landscape, Roberto Burle Marx, was the most influential landscape designer of the 20th Century. As a naturalist, Miyano’s research of Hawaii’s endemic fauna and flora, date back to the 1960’s. Former United States Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin, writes “Those of us who know him have been aware for years that Leland is a true original, a living treasure among us, and it is fortunate for all of us that his sculpture, with all its representations of the irreplaceable life of these islands, is receiving some of the attention and honor it deserves.”
LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 27THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
Purchase open land, build a dwelling, operating loans, line of credit, equipment purchase, truck or automobile purchase, refinance a mortgage or agree-ment of sale, etc.
Both the Federal Land Bank Association of Hawaii, FLCA and Hawaii Production Credit association can custom design a
loan to meet your needs.
We offer: Long term loans, short term loans, competitive interest rate programs, flexible repayment schedules, excellent loan servicing options, etc. We also have programs for Young, Beginning, Small and Minority Farmers.
C A L L O N E O F O U R LOA N O F F I C E R S AT :
Oahu Office 2850 Pa‘a Street, Suite 100 Honolulu, HI 96819 Phone: 808-836-8009 Fax: 808-836-8610 www.hawaiifarmcredit.com
Hilo Office 988 Kinoole Street Hilo, HI 96720 Phone: 808-961-3708 Fax: 808-961-5494
From the Neighbor Islands Call Toll Free 1-800-894-4996
FCS of Hawaii, ACA is part of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide system of leading agricultural financial institutions which started in 1917. FCS of Hawaii, ACA has been doing business in Hawaii since 1966 through its subsidiary the Federal Land Bank Association of Hawaii, FLCA. The FCS of Hawaii, ACA is not a Federal Agency of the Federal Government.
LOAN?LOAN?AGRICULTURALAGRICULTURALNEED ANNEED AN
Federal Land Bank Association of Hawaii, FLCAHawaii Production Credit Association
FARM CREDIT SERVICES OF HAWAII, ACA
BU
SIN
ESS
BUSINESSTIPS
b y G u y W a t a r i t’s something most of us look forward to doing nearly every
day: Opening and sorting our mail.
According to the U.S. Postal Ser-vice, 98 percent of consumers bring
in their mail the day it’s delivered, and 77 percent go through it immediately. Most importantly: More than half of con-sumers look forward to discovering what they received.
Direct mail – or the process of reaching out to a select audience through printed materials by mail – is a targeted, tangible and personal way to be an important part of that process in households across Hawaii. Many small businesses should consider this tool as part of their market-ing plan. Here’s why:
■ simple and cost-effective. Don’t have the budget for expensive mass advertising on TV? There are a variety of direct mail options available, from highly targeted postcard campaigns to color brochures and letters containing free samples.■ Pin-point precision. Get more bang
for your buck by targeting the interests of carefully refined niche audiences – and enhance effectiveness by personalizing each mailing. ■ Quantifiable results. Easily measure
the success of your campaign by track-ing the number of customer inquiries or direct mail offer redemptions. Adjust future mailings as necessary to maximize results. ■ greater accessibility. Direct mail
reaches a wide range of audiences, includ-ing those elusive “thin markets,” better
than any other method of advertis-ing.
■ tangible advertis-ing. Give consum-
ers a chance to
physically interact with your brand and messaging – including coupons and offers that can be reread, saved and shared.■ Quick turnaround. A direct mail
campaign can be produced within a few weeks, making it an effective way to ef-ficiently test out offers and audiences. ■ enhanced web utility. Along with
printed materials, the Internet is becoming the most-used source of shopping research – even though final purchases may not be made online. By providing links and key information, direct mail enhances the util-ity of the Internet in the shopping process.
Printed materials are the primary medium for advertising information, and direct mail provides the strongest overall reach potential of the adult, upscale mar-ket. It also has a high degree of familiarity and acceptance among consumers.
Surveys also show that reader engagement with direct mail advertising often translates into action. To create a call to action:
■ Clearly state a deadline for action.■ Advise of a price increase.■ Establish an introductory period.■ Offer a free gift, upgrade or “no-risk” trial.■ Use action (not passive) phrases.
It is critical to have a database of deliverable addresses and knowledge of rates, rules and regulations to ensure that your message gets to your market without wasting materials, money or time, said Clinton Schroeder, president of Haga-done Printing Company. Hagadone is Hawaii’s largest commercial and specialty printer, offering under-one-roof printing, list management, and mailing.
“Today’s advanced technologies make it easier and quicker than ever to pro-duce a quality campaign ranging from direct mail postcards to complex merges and odd sizes,” he said. “Direct mail is a cost-effective way to enhance marketing strategy and create measurable success.”
Guy Watarai is a sales manager for Hagadone Printing Company. Hagadone Printing Company designs and prints the Landscape Hawaii magazine.
TARGET YOUR CUSTOMERS WITH
DIRECT MAIL BIG ISLAND EXAM NETS SIX MORE CERTIFIED LANDSCAPE TECHS
26 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
he Landscape Certification Program on the Big Island was renewed on June 9, after a two year absence. A new location at the Prince at Mauna Kea Hotel was used for the exam, which
tested fifteen new candidates and two re-takers on Ornamental Maintenance. The hard work of Island Chair Garrett Webb, Kalaoa Gardens, and JTAs Erin Lee, grounds supervisor at Hualalai Resort, and Hugh Landes, Landes Home Services, were mainly responsible for the resurrection of the program. Prince grounds supervisor David Higgins was also instrumental in developing the new test site. Other sponsors that contribut-ed were Hawaii Grower Products, Crop Production Services, Kona Irrigation, Hualalai Resorts, and Service Rentals & Supplies Inc.
The outcome of the exam resulted in six new CLTs. Six other candidates with only one exam problem to complete will have the opportunity to get certified in a re-take exam to be held in August.
Those earning the Ornamental Certification are Jack Hao of Outrigger Royal Sea Cliff, Shannon Hao of Kanaloa at Kona, John Palos of Hualalai Resort, Christopher Bryant of Bezona Botanical, Gary Dugaran of Hawaii Land Care and Kennedy Von Elsner. Congratulations to all.
The Kauai written exam was held on July 28 and the hands-on field problems will be conducted on September 22 at Kauai Community College. This exam will offer the Turf Maintenance certifica-tion. Larry Borgatti is Kauai Island Chair this year.
The Oahu exam will be held at the UH Waimanalo Experiment Station Farm on August 25. The Oahu exam will include certification in Turf Maintenance, Or-namental Maintenance, Irrigation, and Softscape Installation. Mike Johnson of Landscape Hawaii and Brandon Au of
Honolulu City & County Parks are Island Chairs for the Oahu exams.
Jay Deputy is the state administrator for the Certified Landscape Technician program and a member of the LICH Board of Directors.
By JAy DEPuty
LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 27THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY
Purchase open land, build a dwelling, operating loans, line of credit, equipment purchase, truck or automobile purchase, refinance a mortgage or agree-ment of sale, etc.
Both the Federal Land Bank Association of Hawaii, FLCA and Hawaii Production Credit association can custom design a
loan to meet your needs.
We offer: Long term loans, short term loans, competitive interest rate programs, flexible repayment schedules, excellent loan servicing options, etc. We also have programs for Young, Beginning, Small and Minority Farmers.
C A L L O N E O F O U R LOA N O F F I C E R S AT :
Oahu Office 2850 Pa‘a Street, Suite 100 Honolulu, HI 96819 Phone: 808-836-8009 Fax: 808-836-8610 www.hawaiifarmcredit.com
Hilo Office 988 Kinoole Street Hilo, HI 96720 Phone: 808-961-3708 Fax: 808-961-5494
From the Neighbor Islands Call Toll Free 1-800-894-4996
FCS of Hawaii, ACA is part of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide system of leading agricultural financial institutions which started in 1917. FCS of Hawaii, ACA has been doing business in Hawaii since 1966 through its subsidiary the Federal Land Bank Association of Hawaii, FLCA. The FCS of Hawaii, ACA is not a Federal Agency of the Federal Government.
LOAN?LOAN?AGRICULTURALAGRICULTURALNEED ANNEED AN
Federal Land Bank Association of Hawaii, FLCAHawaii Production Credit Association
FARM CREDIT SERVICES OF HAWAII, ACA
BU
SIN
ESS
BUSINESSTIPS
b y G u y W a t a r i t’s something most of us look forward to doing nearly every
day: Opening and sorting our mail.
According to the U.S. Postal Ser-vice, 98 percent of consumers bring
in their mail the day it’s delivered, and 77 percent go through it immediately. Most importantly: More than half of con-sumers look forward to discovering what they received.
Direct mail – or the process of reaching out to a select audience through printed materials by mail – is a targeted, tangible and personal way to be an important part of that process in households across Hawaii. Many small businesses should consider this tool as part of their market-ing plan. Here’s why:
■ simple and cost-effective. Don’t have the budget for expensive mass advertising on TV? There are a variety of direct mail options available, from highly targeted postcard campaigns to color brochures and letters containing free samples.■ Pin-point precision. Get more bang
for your buck by targeting the interests of carefully refined niche audiences – and enhance effectiveness by personalizing each mailing. ■ Quantifiable results. Easily measure
the success of your campaign by track-ing the number of customer inquiries or direct mail offer redemptions. Adjust future mailings as necessary to maximize results. ■ greater accessibility. Direct mail
reaches a wide range of audiences, includ-ing those elusive “thin markets,” better
than any other method of advertis-ing.
■ tangible advertis-ing. Give consum-
ers a chance to
physically interact with your brand and messaging – including coupons and offers that can be reread, saved and shared.■ Quick turnaround. A direct mail
campaign can be produced within a few weeks, making it an effective way to ef-ficiently test out offers and audiences. ■ enhanced web utility. Along with
printed materials, the Internet is becoming the most-used source of shopping research – even though final purchases may not be made online. By providing links and key information, direct mail enhances the util-ity of the Internet in the shopping process.
Printed materials are the primary medium for advertising information, and direct mail provides the strongest overall reach potential of the adult, upscale mar-ket. It also has a high degree of familiarity and acceptance among consumers.
Surveys also show that reader engagement with direct mail advertising often translates into action. To create a call to action:
■ Clearly state a deadline for action.■ Advise of a price increase.■ Establish an introductory period.■ Offer a free gift, upgrade or “no-risk” trial.■ Use action (not passive) phrases.
It is critical to have a database of deliverable addresses and knowledge of rates, rules and regulations to ensure that your message gets to your market without wasting materials, money or time, said Clinton Schroeder, president of Haga-done Printing Company. Hagadone is Hawaii’s largest commercial and specialty printer, offering under-one-roof printing, list management, and mailing.
“Today’s advanced technologies make it easier and quicker than ever to pro-duce a quality campaign ranging from direct mail postcards to complex merges and odd sizes,” he said. “Direct mail is a cost-effective way to enhance marketing strategy and create measurable success.”
Guy Watarai is a sales manager for Hagadone Printing Company. Hagadone Printing Company designs and prints the Landscape Hawaii magazine.
TARGET YOUR CUSTOMERS WITH
DIRECT MAIL BIG ISLAND EXAM NETS SIX MORE CERTIFIED LANDSCAPE TECHS
26 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012
he Landscape Certification Program on the Big Island was renewed on June 9, after a two year absence. A new location at the Prince at Mauna Kea Hotel was used for the exam, which
tested fifteen new candidates and two re-takers on Ornamental Maintenance. The hard work of Island Chair Garrett Webb, Kalaoa Gardens, and JTAs Erin Lee, grounds supervisor at Hualalai Resort, and Hugh Landes, Landes Home Services, were mainly responsible for the resurrection of the program. Prince grounds supervisor David Higgins was also instrumental in developing the new test site. Other sponsors that contribut-ed were Hawaii Grower Products, Crop Production Services, Kona Irrigation, Hualalai Resorts, and Service Rentals & Supplies Inc.
The outcome of the exam resulted in six new CLTs. Six other candidates with only one exam problem to complete will have the opportunity to get certified in a re-take exam to be held in August.
Those earning the Ornamental Certification are Jack Hao of Outrigger Royal Sea Cliff, Shannon Hao of Kanaloa at Kona, John Palos of Hualalai Resort, Christopher Bryant of Bezona Botanical, Gary Dugaran of Hawaii Land Care and Kennedy Von Elsner. Congratulations to all.
The Kauai written exam was held on July 28 and the hands-on field problems will be conducted on September 22 at Kauai Community College. This exam will offer the Turf Maintenance certifica-tion. Larry Borgatti is Kauai Island Chair this year.
The Oahu exam will be held at the UH Waimanalo Experiment Station Farm on August 25. The Oahu exam will include certification in Turf Maintenance, Or-namental Maintenance, Irrigation, and Softscape Installation. Mike Johnson of Landscape Hawaii and Brandon Au of
Honolulu City & County Parks are Island Chairs for the Oahu exams.
Jay Deputy is the state administrator for the Certified Landscape Technician program and a member of the LICH Board of Directors.
By JAy DEPuty
28 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012 THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 29
03-10-09/0000229489
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Contact
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(808) 239-2151 Fax
48-373 G Kamehameha HwyKaneohe, Hawaii 96744
Susan OwenManager
Contact
(808) 239-1280 Office
(808) 239-2151 Fax
48-373 G Kamehameha HwyKaneohe, Hawaii 96744
Distributor:
Phone: (808) 677-1580
Email: [email protected]
94-155C Leowaena Street,
Waipahu, Hawaii 96797.
On-sitetraining & support
High quality engineered products& installation tools
Fast & easyinstallation
A proven track record of over 25yrs
Security & stability for the trees
Technical support & specificationguidance
Affordable solutions
takes and ties are com-mon sights on trees in our landscapes, but have
you ever wondered why? Newly planted trees often
have stakes and ties installed to help main-tain their stability while roots grow into the surrounding soil. Sometimes stakes serve a secondary purpose of protecting the new tree’s trunk from lawn mower and other damage.
When do trees need stakes and ties? Trees with large enough root balls, such as a monkeypod planted by a tree spade, may not need stakes and ties at all because they are stable after planting. Most container-ized trees up to 45 gal size, however, are relatively top heavy and prone to blowing over, particularly in strong winds. These require stakes and ties. Containerized trees larger than 45 gal are usually guyed instead, particularly when the tree is too tall or massive for the stakes to support it.
How should ties be tied? Flexible flat ties should be used to allow the tree’s trunk to move in the wind. This builds strength in the trunk so that the tree doesn’t flop over when the stakes are removed. The ties are looped around the trunk and then around the stake in a figure 8 shape. They should be nailed to the stake but not to the trunk. Wires by themselves or in garden hoses should not be used because they can cut into and injure the trunk.
Where should stakes be installed? Stakes should be pounded into firm soil outside of the root ball to avoid damaging roots. They should be away from the trunk and below the lowest branch so that the stakes don’t rub and wound the tree.
How long does the tree need stakes and ties? The stakes and ties should be re-moved after one growing season, no more
than one year after planting.What happens if stakes and ties aren’t
removed? Trees have secondary growth – they get taller but they also expand in girth. If ties aren’t removed in a timely manner, they can constrict the trunk’s expansion in girth and girdle or strangle the tree because the circulatory system of a tree is located just under the bark. Some trees overcome this girdling effect by growing over the ties and incorporating them into their wood, but this creates a structural defect, a weak spot in the trunk that is more prone to breakage.
the Bottom LineStakes and ties are temporary aids that
should be removed within one year of planting. Unfortunately, in far too many landscapes, the removal gets forgotten. By the time the stakes and ties should be removed, the landscape installation contractor’s work is usually completed and the landscaping turned over to the end user. The landscape maintenance contract may not mention removal of stakes and ties and workers often won’t do it unless specifically directed to do so. It is often up to the owner or agency to remember to ask for the removal of the stakes and ties, and many owners don’t realize that this
needs to be done. Landscape maintenance contractors can help by educating their clients, the owners, about the need for this work.
If a tree falls over or needs more support when the stakes and ties are removed after one year, it may not have been planted properly. It should be checked for things like circling roots, being planted too deeply, and other planting issues.
This article was funded in part by Kaulunani, an Urban & Community Forestry Program of the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the USDA Forest Service.
Carol Kwan is the President of Carol Kwan Consulting, a Certified Arborist, and the Secretary of Aloha Arborist Association.
STAKES AND TIES
By CAROL KWAN
The proper protocol in stakes and ties are invaluable to the ultimate success of landscapers
This stake was too tall and too close to the tree. It has wounded the lower branches.
Phot
os: C
arol
Kw
an
Continued from page 21
Gloves:
Do your hands get hot and sweaty wearing unlined gloves? Read the note at the end of the article and work in comfort.
removal and cleaning After use, try washing the outsides of
your gloves in running water, and soap if possible, while you are still wearing them. Next, remove one glove by grasping it near the cuff, without touching your skin, then peel it off. Hold the inside-out glove in your bare hand while you slip your un-gloved finger under the cuff of the other
design Gloves are made by two methods,
handprint and molded. Handprint gloves are made from layers of material die-cut in the outline of a hand and heat-sealed together. Those made from a hand-shaped mold dipped into a polymer solu-tion are called molded gloves. Handprint gloves fit either hand loosely and tend to be thin, slick, and stiff. The highly resistant barrier laminate gloves are made this way. Molded gloves are usually more comfortable to wear and easier to work in, but thumb placement and finger length are variable. Some brands may offer a better fit than others, so try before you buy.
Natural rubber ≥ 14 mils: for dry or wa-ter-based formulations ($12-19/pair)
Fit 1 What are some issues to consider when selecting the right glove? 2 If a particular glove type is recom mended on a pesticide label, where would you find it? 3 Which personal protective clothing material, including gloves, is the least resistant to chemical solvents? 4 What signs may indicate the need to replace your gloves? Do the same apply when using highly toxic chemicals? 5 Should your shirt sleeves be inside or outside the gloves when spraying a pesticide?
If gloves fit properly, they feel less awkward and more comfort-able. If they fit too tight, they will be harder to get on and off and your hands may tire faster. If gloves are too big, you lose agility and there is a greater chance of catching them in machinery. To find your glove
size (7 to 12), measure around your open hand. If it measures 10 inches, you are a size 10. Some gloves are sized S-M-L and XL, men‘s and women‘s, or one size fits all. In this case, try them on.
thickness Glove thickness is measured in mils or
gauge and bigger numbers usually mean thicker gloves and more chemical protec-tion. For example, one barrier laminate glove, Silver Shield® is 0.004-inch (4 mil) and a particular Viton® design is 0.036-inch (36 mil) in thickness. Both are resistant to most solvents (see table). As a comparison, surgeon‘s gloves of natural rubber are 4 mil to 9 mil thick (1 mil = 0.001 inch) and are not durable enough for use with most pesticides. Uniform thickness is difficult to manufacture, however, and thinner areas will wear out first. Though thicker gloves may offer more protection from chemicals, tear-ing, and puncture, they are more bulky and clumsy. Thinner gloves are easier to work in, but are also damaged more easily. See Gloves on page 30
28 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2012 THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 29
03-10-09/0000229489
KOOLAU SEEDS & SUPPLY R 2.00 X 2.00
3009 PMP-PENARO Proofed By: jmahoney
Susan OwenManager
Contact
(808) 239-1280 Office
(808) 239-2151 Fax
48-373 G Kamehameha HwyKaneohe, Hawaii 96744
Susan OwenManager
Contact
(808) 239-1280 Office
(808) 239-2151 Fax
48-373 G Kamehameha HwyKaneohe, Hawaii 96744
Distributor:
Phone: (808) 677-1580
Email: [email protected]
94-155C Leowaena Street,
Waipahu, Hawaii 96797.
On-sitetraining & support
High quality engineered products& installation tools
Fast & easyinstallation
A proven track record of over 25yrs
Security & stability for the trees
Technical support & specificationguidance
Affordable solutions
takes and ties are com-mon sights on trees in our landscapes, but have
you ever wondered why? Newly planted trees often
have stakes and ties installed to help main-tain their stability while roots grow into the surrounding soil. Sometimes stakes serve a secondary purpose of protecting the new tree’s trunk from lawn mower and other damage.
When do trees need stakes and ties? Trees with large enough root balls, such as a monkeypod planted by a tree spade, may not need stakes and ties at all because they are stable after planting. Most container-ized trees up to 45 gal size, however, are relatively top heavy and prone to blowing over, particularly in strong winds. These require stakes and ties. Containerized trees larger than 45 gal are usually guyed instead, particularly when the tree is too tall or massive for the stakes to support it.
How should ties be tied? Flexible flat ties should be used to allow the tree’s trunk to move in the wind. This builds strength in the trunk so that the tree doesn’t flop over when the stakes are removed. The ties are looped around the trunk and then around the stake in a figure 8 shape. They should be nailed to the stake but not to the trunk. Wires by themselves or in garden hoses should not be used because they can cut into and injure the trunk.
Where should stakes be installed? Stakes should be pounded into firm soil outside of the root ball to avoid damaging roots. They should be away from the trunk and below the lowest branch so that the stakes don’t rub and wound the tree.
How long does the tree need stakes and ties? The stakes and ties should be re-moved after one growing season, no more
than one year after planting.What happens if stakes and ties aren’t
removed? Trees have secondary growth – they get taller but they also expand in girth. If ties aren’t removed in a timely manner, they can constrict the trunk’s expansion in girth and girdle or strangle the tree because the circulatory system of a tree is located just under the bark. Some trees overcome this girdling effect by growing over the ties and incorporating them into their wood, but this creates a structural defect, a weak spot in the trunk that is more prone to breakage.
the Bottom LineStakes and ties are temporary aids that
should be removed within one year of planting. Unfortunately, in far too many landscapes, the removal gets forgotten. By the time the stakes and ties should be removed, the landscape installation contractor’s work is usually completed and the landscaping turned over to the end user. The landscape maintenance contract may not mention removal of stakes and ties and workers often won’t do it unless specifically directed to do so. It is often up to the owner or agency to remember to ask for the removal of the stakes and ties, and many owners don’t realize that this
needs to be done. Landscape maintenance contractors can help by educating their clients, the owners, about the need for this work.
If a tree falls over or needs more support when the stakes and ties are removed after one year, it may not have been planted properly. It should be checked for things like circling roots, being planted too deeply, and other planting issues.
This article was funded in part by Kaulunani, an Urban & Community Forestry Program of the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the USDA Forest Service.
Carol Kwan is the President of Carol Kwan Consulting, a Certified Arborist, and the Secretary of Aloha Arborist Association.
STAKES AND TIES
By CAROL KWAN
The proper protocol in stakes and ties are invaluable to the ultimate success of landscapers
This stake was too tall and too close to the tree. It has wounded the lower branches.
Phot
os: C
arol
Kw
an
Continued from page 21
Gloves:
Do your hands get hot and sweaty wearing unlined gloves? Read the note at the end of the article and work in comfort.
removal and cleaning After use, try washing the outsides of
your gloves in running water, and soap if possible, while you are still wearing them. Next, remove one glove by grasping it near the cuff, without touching your skin, then peel it off. Hold the inside-out glove in your bare hand while you slip your un-gloved finger under the cuff of the other
design Gloves are made by two methods,
handprint and molded. Handprint gloves are made from layers of material die-cut in the outline of a hand and heat-sealed together. Those made from a hand-shaped mold dipped into a polymer solu-tion are called molded gloves. Handprint gloves fit either hand loosely and tend to be thin, slick, and stiff. The highly resistant barrier laminate gloves are made this way. Molded gloves are usually more comfortable to wear and easier to work in, but thumb placement and finger length are variable. Some brands may offer a better fit than others, so try before you buy.
Natural rubber ≥ 14 mils: for dry or wa-ter-based formulations ($12-19/pair)
Fit 1 What are some issues to consider when selecting the right glove? 2 If a particular glove type is recom mended on a pesticide label, where would you find it? 3 Which personal protective clothing material, including gloves, is the least resistant to chemical solvents? 4 What signs may indicate the need to replace your gloves? Do the same apply when using highly toxic chemicals? 5 Should your shirt sleeves be inside or outside the gloves when spraying a pesticide?
If gloves fit properly, they feel less awkward and more comfort-able. If they fit too tight, they will be harder to get on and off and your hands may tire faster. If gloves are too big, you lose agility and there is a greater chance of catching them in machinery. To find your glove
size (7 to 12), measure around your open hand. If it measures 10 inches, you are a size 10. Some gloves are sized S-M-L and XL, men‘s and women‘s, or one size fits all. In this case, try them on.
thickness Glove thickness is measured in mils or
gauge and bigger numbers usually mean thicker gloves and more chemical protec-tion. For example, one barrier laminate glove, Silver Shield® is 0.004-inch (4 mil) and a particular Viton® design is 0.036-inch (36 mil) in thickness. Both are resistant to most solvents (see table). As a comparison, surgeon‘s gloves of natural rubber are 4 mil to 9 mil thick (1 mil = 0.001 inch) and are not durable enough for use with most pesticides. Uniform thickness is difficult to manufacture, however, and thinner areas will wear out first. Though thicker gloves may offer more protection from chemicals, tear-ing, and puncture, they are more bulky and clumsy. Thinner gloves are easier to work in, but are also damaged more easily. See Gloves on page 30
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If you want to reuse a pair of gloves wash them the same day, as follows: 1) remove free pesticide and other mate-rial from the outside of the gloves with running water; 2) use a strong detergent to remove remaining chemical residue; 3) rinse well in running water; 4) hang by the fingertips with a clothespin to dry. Never put gloves in an automatic dryer.
disposal The usefulness of most gloves is short-
lived. It may be time to replace them if you notice any of these signs: ■ staining or color change inside or outside of the glove; ■ softening, swelling, or bubbling; ■ stiffening, cracking, or surface change; ■ dissolving or becoming jelly-like; or ■ leaking at any time.
Even in the absence of these signs, pesticides can soak through or contami-nate glove materials without changing the glove‘s appearance or texture. So replace gloves when there is: ■ direct glove contact with highly toxic chemicals for a short time, or ■ repeated contact over a longer period.
A routine replacement schedule may be
useful, depending on the type of chemical exposure and amount of use. Cut gloves up so they cannot be reused and dispose of them as solid waste.
Final tips ■ Keep one set of gloves for mixing concentrates. ■ Wash gloves after each use to reduce exposure time and lengthen glove life. ■ Allow gloves to dry before storing. ■ Manufacturers label packages, not gloves; write material type on cuffs with a permanent marker. ■ Place sleeves outside of gloves if most of your spraying is at or below waist level . ■ Place sleeves inside gloves if most of your spraying is over-head; make a
1- to 2-inch cuff to catch pesticide that runs down the glove ■ If spraying both above and below waist level, close your gloves tightly outside of your sleeves and secure with heavy-duty tape or an elastic band. ■ Do not use flocked or lined gloves; they can absorb pesticide (see the following note).
note: On 1 September 2004, EPA amended the Worker Protection Stan-dard‘s prohibition of using separable liners (e.g. thin cotton gloves) in chemi-cal-resistant gloves. The decision to use separable glove liners is now at the dis-cretion of the pesticide user: chemical-resistant gloves can continue to be used without liners. EPA‘s new regulations contain restrictions to assure that con-taminated liners will not remain in use. To assure that contaminated liners will not be reused, all separable liners will have to be discarded immediately after 10 hours of use with-in any 24-hour peri-od; separable liners cannot be laundered and reused. Separable glove liners that come into contact with pesticides must be discarded immediately and replaced with new liners. Discarding separable glove liners immediately is necessary to ensure that gloves are not contaminated and reused, accidentally or otherwise.
This article is from “The Pesticide Label” newsletter and is reprinted with permission from the Pesticide Safety Education Program, College of Tropi-cal Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa. If you would like to receive notice when a new issue of this publication has been posted on-line, send your request to [email protected] with “new issue alerts” as the subject header.
references: EPA. 2004. Federal Register Vol. 69,
No. 169. http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/safety/workers/fr-gloves.pdf
Fishel, F. 2006. Glove selection for working with pesticides. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PI157
Paulsrud, B. and Nixon, P. 2001. Choose the proper gloves when handling pesticides. http://ipm.illinois.edu/bulle-tin/pastpest/articles/200111.html
Stone, J. 1996. Keep gloves handy for pesticide work. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1518E.pdf
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If you want to reuse a pair of gloves wash them the same day, as follows: 1) remove free pesticide and other mate-rial from the outside of the gloves with running water; 2) use a strong detergent to remove remaining chemical residue; 3) rinse well in running water; 4) hang by the fingertips with a clothespin to dry. Never put gloves in an automatic dryer.
disposal The usefulness of most gloves is short-
lived. It may be time to replace them if you notice any of these signs: ■ staining or color change inside or outside of the glove; ■ softening, swelling, or bubbling; ■ stiffening, cracking, or surface change; ■ dissolving or becoming jelly-like; or ■ leaking at any time.
Even in the absence of these signs, pesticides can soak through or contami-nate glove materials without changing the glove‘s appearance or texture. So replace gloves when there is: ■ direct glove contact with highly toxic chemicals for a short time, or ■ repeated contact over a longer period.
A routine replacement schedule may be
useful, depending on the type of chemical exposure and amount of use. Cut gloves up so they cannot be reused and dispose of them as solid waste.
Final tips ■ Keep one set of gloves for mixing concentrates. ■ Wash gloves after each use to reduce exposure time and lengthen glove life. ■ Allow gloves to dry before storing. ■ Manufacturers label packages, not gloves; write material type on cuffs with a permanent marker. ■ Place sleeves outside of gloves if most of your spraying is at or below waist level . ■ Place sleeves inside gloves if most of your spraying is over-head; make a
1- to 2-inch cuff to catch pesticide that runs down the glove ■ If spraying both above and below waist level, close your gloves tightly outside of your sleeves and secure with heavy-duty tape or an elastic band. ■ Do not use flocked or lined gloves; they can absorb pesticide (see the following note).
note: On 1 September 2004, EPA amended the Worker Protection Stan-dard‘s prohibition of using separable liners (e.g. thin cotton gloves) in chemi-cal-resistant gloves. The decision to use separable glove liners is now at the dis-cretion of the pesticide user: chemical-resistant gloves can continue to be used without liners. EPA‘s new regulations contain restrictions to assure that con-taminated liners will not remain in use. To assure that contaminated liners will not be reused, all separable liners will have to be discarded immediately after 10 hours of use with-in any 24-hour peri-od; separable liners cannot be laundered and reused. Separable glove liners that come into contact with pesticides must be discarded immediately and replaced with new liners. Discarding separable glove liners immediately is necessary to ensure that gloves are not contaminated and reused, accidentally or otherwise.
This article is from “The Pesticide Label” newsletter and is reprinted with permission from the Pesticide Safety Education Program, College of Tropi-cal Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa. If you would like to receive notice when a new issue of this publication has been posted on-line, send your request to [email protected] with “new issue alerts” as the subject header.
references: EPA. 2004. Federal Register Vol. 69,
No. 169. http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/safety/workers/fr-gloves.pdf
Fishel, F. 2006. Glove selection for working with pesticides. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PI157
Paulsrud, B. and Nixon, P. 2001. Choose the proper gloves when handling pesticides. http://ipm.illinois.edu/bulle-tin/pastpest/articles/200111.html
Stone, J. 1996. Keep gloves handy for pesticide work. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1518E.pdf
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