Got tickets to the Boyz II Men concert at the Blaisdell, check. Order Singing Valentine message, check.  Pick up ingredients for breakfast, check.  Make dinner reservation, check. Call flower shop for flower delivery, check. Hey, That was easy.

More Event ideas at Metromix like Kenny Rankin at the Hawaii Theatre, or Ginai at Chai’s.

Love Gone Wild at the Honolulu Zoo.

KITV 4 “Valentine’s Day Date Ideas Are Boundless“  “…Make your own drive-in movie theater. Bring a TV/VCR outside to the driveway and place it in front of the garage. Park your car in front of it, turn up the volume and snuggle up. “

Bankrate.com Valentine’s Day dos and don’ts for guys “…You can’t give her anything useful, edible or that might even remotely interest you. By process of elimination, that leaves the Holy Trinity of Valentine’s Day offerings: flowers, jewelry and chocolate…”

Give flowers, get smiles and now rewards. How cool is that? We are now a First Hawaiian Bank PlusPoints Partner. You can earn points faster on each of your flower and lei purchase at Sweet Blossoms Hawaii with your First Hawaiian Bank Priority Rewards Credit Card (4 PlusPoints per dollar) or Debit Card (3.5 PlusPoints per dollar). Rewards are not just airplane tickets or Star Market gift certificates like before. You can now get reward gift certificates from Jack in the Box, Arby’s, Target and Pier 1 import or even car rental from Avis and Budget and many other new reward merchants. It’s easy. Earn points everywhere else with your priority card and extra points at the many PlusPoints Partner.

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Drop off your used baskets at the shop and get instant discount or credit toward your flower purchase. Or pick up a few and make a donation to our charity of the month. We love win-win-win situation. Win for the environment – less basket in the landfill.  Win for our customers with savings on their store purchase.  Win for the Charity when we make contribution for a cause. 

Inauguration is set on Tuesday Jan 20. I’m excited; how about you.? Aloha shirt would be too casual for the occasion. You think Obama will wear a lei? That’s if someone would present him one (hint to Hawaii Tourism Authority) He would be the first president to wear a lei at the Inauguration. Certainly would be nice to see him in one for the parade or at the ball.

photo originally appear at daylife.com during his visit to Bellevue, Washington. Obama was presented with two single orchid lei.

gohawaii.com on Obama

Narcissus, the Chinese calls it the “Water Fairy Flower,” a symbol of properity and good fortune. Don’t mistaken the bulb as onion. Out come it are sweet fragrant blossoms of yellow bowl (corona) resting on 6 white patals (perianth). Happy Chinese New Year!

We have Narcissus in the store. Please call 808-732-7668 for availability.

$15.99 per plant (in tofu container)
$21.99 with basic container
$28.99 with gift container

Chinese New Year is early this year. On January 26, 2009, we will be into the year of the Ox. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Locals like to decorate their homes with narcissus, qunice, peach or plum blossom as well as pussy willow. Many believe that the number of blossoms on New Year day will equate to how prosperous one will be for the coming year. Check out this brochure by Asian Art Museum, San Francisco for more information on flower and fruit of the New Year.

Chinatown Chinese New Year Celebration Schedule
Zhangzhou, Fujian of China is most famous on the production of Narcissus bulbs.

Weird, could you tell me what this is? Eric Butler hiked the local terrain and snap away photos of tropical plants and flowers. 

His collection of photography can be view at Sweet Blossoms Hawaii card rack (located right next to lei cooler). All are in greeting card format so you can send it to someone who loves flowers and plants. There are also a few calendars left for purchase. Above are just couple samples. Doesn’t it look like a Chihuly Red Chinnok Chandelier or was it the other way around that Chihuly chandelier look like this tropical coral tree?

It’s time to dispose your Christmas tree and wreaths and it’s tempting to just throw them all in the trash. But it is worth while to separate them out for reuse and recycle first. In Kapahulu area, our next green waste (green bin) pick up is on January 8, Thursday.

Tabletop Christmas tree (topiary) – Pull off all ornaments, save them for next year to be reused. Pull all the greens and dispose them in the (green waste) green bin. Dispose the oasis in the (refuse) gray bin. The vase can be reuse or donate to Goodwill.

Wreath with metal base. – Pull off all ornaments, save them for next year to be reused. The remaining metal base and green is best just thrown in the gray bin. H-power will pick out the metal before burning the rest.

Wreath with natural twig basePull off all ornaments, save them for next year to be reused. Or call your local florist to see if they would take back the wreath. Some would certainly take the time to unwire the greens and save the twig base for future use.

Norfolk Christmas tree is rather easy to set up for treecycle.
1. Take off all the hung ornaments first and store them for future use.
2. Snap off the branches as you untangle the lights, wrapping the lights into a ball and store for next year use.
3. Snap off the remaining branches and bunch them in a pile.
4. Saw the main trunk in two or three pieces.
5. bundle everything and place them in the green bin.

We started off the New Year this morning at KGMB Sunrise to demonstrate the arrangement of Kadomatsu and explain its New Year significant. We get to watch the show from behind the scene and see Grace, Steve, Taizo and Malika at work. We even get to meet and see Fanny Pak perform. It was awesome. Happy New Year, Everyone.

Kadomatsu Brings Good Luck to the New Year
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Fanny Pak, So Real Cru Perform at the Blaisdell
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