Explore the Honolulu Botanical Gardens with a Community Forestry Passport

Visitors use the passport while exploring the five gardens and look for specific natural and sensory features. Examples include:

• Find different leaf shapes and edges.
• Look for trumpet-shaped, star-shaped, plumeria, and other flowers.
• Observe unusual tree roots, including buttress roots and aerial roots.
• Find native plants, tropical plants, cacti, fruits, seeds, and exceptional trees.
• Look for birds, ducks, geckos, insects, snails, fish, and other wildlife.
• Listen for sounds such as rustling leaves, rushing water, footsteps, laughter, or a duck quacking.
• Notice scents such as flowers, fresh-cut grass, and other garden smells.
• Count selected features such as benches, stairs, insects, or signs.
• Draw discoveries in the passport.
• Draw yourself with a favorite tree.
• Check off discoveries as you explore each garden.