[ WEEKEND SCENE ] Island-style fun as seen through the camera’s eye

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Native growth

Punahou students cultivate the
Waikiki Community Center's
Keiki Garden

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM Volunteer Punahou High School students dug, shoveled and hauled dirt and mulch in the Waikiki Community Center's Keiki Garden on Saturday. Punahou High School seniors Chris Shiramizu and Arik Look applied mulch to the newly installed Hawaiian native plants.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM Dennis Kim, of Native Plant Source in Waimanalo, held an uki'uki blossom. The plant's fruit was used by the early Hawaiians to dye tapa cloth.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM A native Hawaiian gardenia, or nanu, was stamped into place after being planted. According to Kim, no more than 15 of these gardenias are known to be growing wild in Hawaii. Fortunately, the rare plant has been cultivated for domestic gardens and is purported to have a more delicate fragrance and bloom than the standard ornamental gardenia.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM Punahou High School senior Chris Shiramizu pushed a wheelbarrow of mulch amid the condominiums surrounding the Waikiki Community Center's Keiki Garden.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM In a joint community effort between Scenic Hawaii Inc., Native Hawaiian Plant Source, Punahou Hawaiian studies students and the Waikiki Community Center, 40 native Hawaiian plants, such as uki'uki, wauke and kukui, were planted in the Keiki Garden for ornamental and educational use.