Kaia Ranch Tropical Botanical Gardens is a small botanical garden located on the grounds of the Kaia Ranch Bed and Breakfast (27 acres), 470 Ulaino Road, Hāna, Maui, Hawaii.
The garden contains tropical flowers and fruits, as well as Polynesian introductions and Hawaiian native species.
Famous quotes containing the words tropical, botanical and/or gardens:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Evolution was all over my chldhood, walks abroad with an evolutionist and the world was full of evolution, biological and botanical evolution.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)