{"id":832,"date":"2016-10-15T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardentowerchronicles.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:18:11","slug":"a-trip-to-hawaii-and-some-of-its-local-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/a-trip-to-hawaii-and-some-of-its-local-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta See! The Amazing Local Plants On My Hawaii Vacay"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must apologize for not writing any postings for a while. \u00a0I have been gone for a while in Hawaii spending time with my family; my son from Tokyo and my youngest son and daughter-in-law from New York City. \u00a0Hawaii was heavenly. \u00a0We were on the island of Kauai. \u00a0Visited a coffee farm and made a 4 mile Kayak and one mile hike to a secret waterfall. \u00a0Bought some Peaberry flavor “Estate Reserve” coffee, the best flavor of coffee I have ever tasted. \u00a0Learned some interesting facts about trees and plants in the forest of Kauai on our hike. \u00a0Was able to go to a local Farm Market. \u00a0The fruits and vegetables there were out of this world, and the size of them! \u00a0Tasted some white pineapple, that was quite unusual and particularly sweet. \u00a0You should also see the giant size of avocado there, twice the size of a baseball! \u00a0And the star fruit too, my favorite, juicy and sweet. \u00a0I brought back a plantable Plumeria cutting, and now have it in a pot on the back porch. Most of the Plumeria flowers in Hawaii are in white with\u00a0yellow center, but I bought one that is pink\/red. \u00a0\u00a0Hope it will start growing in the Vegas weather, \u00a0 probably will have to take it inside in the winter. \u00a0Also brought back some Lolikoi Fruit (Passion Fruit) seeds that will grow into vines. \u00a0Don’t think any of them will fit in the GT2, but nevertheless, they are plants and even though I started this blog mainly about the Garden Tower, I would also like include other things relating to gardening. \u00a0Also my son bought some Ice Cream Bean from the Farmers Market. They are huge! \u00a0Suppose to taste like vanilla cream. \u00a0I tasted them, but not too impressed. \u00a0The pod itself is around 8 inches long, one a half inch wide. \u00a0The seeds were black and the size of 4 times the size of a \u00a0lima bean, but black in color. \u00a0One only eat the white membrane that is holding the seed. \u00a0The flavor is sweet, and suppose to taste like vanilla ice cream. \u00a0\"img_0139\" \"img_0140\" \"img_0138\" \"img_3173\" I was going to try to bring some of the seeds home, but my son warned me that they do not allow uncertified seeds or plants into the mainland and I could get jailed for it, so I gave up … huh… \u00a0bummer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must apologize for not writing any postings for a while. \u00a0I have been gone for a while in Hawaii spending time with my family; my son from Tokyo and my youngest son and daughter-in-law from New York City. \u00a0Hawaii was heavenly. \u00a0We were on the island of Kauai. \u00a0Visited a coffee farm and made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}