Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
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The Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden (15 acres) is a botanical garden operated by the Bishop Museum and located near Captain Cook, Hawaii on Hawaii (island). It is open daily except Christmas Day; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was established in 1974 by Amy Beatrice Holdsworth Greenwell, one of the 23 grandchildren of Henry Nicholas Greenwell, who arrived in Hawaii in the 1850s. In her lifetime she transformed her property by planting native and Polynesian-introduced plants in the extant Hawaiian agricultural areas.
Today the garden contains over 200 species of endemic, indigenous, and Polynesian-introduced plants that grew in Kona before Captain James Cook's arrival. On certain days it is possible to take a guided tour during which the use and significance of the more important plants are explained. The garden's landscape includes four ecological zones: coastal, dry forest, agricultural, and upland forest. Its native insect house features Kamehameha butterflies (Vanessa tameamea).
