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Lucky bamboo New Year's decorations on sale at Longs Drugs

Aloha and Happy New Year from Honolulu. I was tickled to find these lucky bamboo and pine arrangements at my neighborhood Longs Drugs. In Japanese tradition, they are placed at the entrances to the home during the New Year’s festivities. Looks like this practice has taken root here, like many other Japanese traditions.

On that topic, I’ve started a new design studio here in Honolulu, with a new website:
localcolorhawaii.com

My first post of the year over there is also about a Japanese New Year’s tradition: mochi soup! Please take a look and if you like what you read, I’d be honored if you’d follow my Local Color blog too.

Wishing you a wonderful, leafy, green 2015!

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Potted aloe plant adorned with small bows

Happy New Year, plant friends! Thanks for your patience with our silence during the holiday season. Let’s kick off the new year with a reader photo. Responding to the bound agave photo we posted recently, Phyllis Fong sent in this photo of a plant that’s been tied up much more gently. Why? Well, that has her perplexed… and us too.

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Seen today near Bahnhof Friedrichsstraße, on Marienstraße to be exact…

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