HONOLULU (AP) — Dear Tourist: The flowers in that bright-purple lei you received on your Hawaii vacation almost certainly weren’t grown in the Aloha State. The vast majority of those odorless orchids ...
For Little Plum Executive Chef Casey Kusaka, flowers have never been an afterthought. They shaped his childhood in Kaneohe, where his grandmother wove lei and ti leaves, his mother and sister danced ...
One of the busiest seasons for Hawaii flower shops is off to a slow start this year, after recent flooding damaged farms and ...
Sam Say, owner of M.P. Lei Shop, strings flowers to make a lei at his shop in Chinatown, Feb. 26, 2026, in Honolulu. The custom of giving and wearing lei made of flowers, leaves, seeds or shells has ...
Watanabe Floral general manager Monty Pereira gestures at locally grown flowers at Watanabe Floral on Nov. 14 in Honolulu. Anthurium sales, valued at nearly $12 million in the early 2000s, have fallen ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Dear Tourist: The flowers in that bright-purple lei you received on your Hawaii vacation almost certainly weren't grown in the Aloha State. The vast majority of those odorless orchids ...