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 ...

On location from Hawai’i: J visits a flower farm; flower breeding: a cocktail expert. J explores the flowers of Hawai’i and visits Green Point Nurseries and a flower farm on the big island of Hawai’i.

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 ...

Buying lei made only with natural materials from Hawaii nei could be a new requirement for state agencies under an effort at the Legislature aimed at helping the local floriculture industry.

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 ...

Buying lei made only with natural materials from Hawaii nei could be a new requirement for state agencies under an effort at the Legislature aimed at helping the local floriculture industry. Companion ...

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 ...

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 ...