Aloha Lee,
I am growing some minature roses that I found in the grocery store just after mothers day. When I bought them their poor little feet were stuffed into 2 inch pots! They are doing so well out in the garden where they have some room to stretch.
I sowed seed of vigna caracalla in February in a large pot on the lanai, and they have just started to bloom! They smell wonderful, sort of like hyacinth. The blooms only seem to last a day or two, but there are a ton coming! Today I noticed some seed pods which look rather like bean pods growing so I am hoping I will have some to share with others in the future (I had a very difficult time finding seed).
I don't grow too much in the way of vegetables but have a lovely stand of lemon grass grown from a piece from the grocery store. We have a lot of wild tomatoes that just appear everywhere, they are very small with toughish skins -but they are very sweet.
We grow mostly the usual tropical fruit in our garden...
Jenny

Hi Izzybelle
Have a few roses-ordering more for next year! Been up to Kula to see the AARS demonstration garden yet? Far as I can tell it's the closest thing to a public rose garden in this state!
All roses beautiful but I prefer big, old fashioned, frilly, fragrant roses myself. Waiting to see how disease resistant my plants are-would prefer to go 'no spray'. So far Chinese Rose Beetle is #1 problem :(
Jenny-poor me-can't even grow cherry toms here-fruit flies a problem even with baits! I stick to herbs, lettuces. Need to visit with my new Filipino neighbor-he's got quite an impressive veg. garden going! maybe i've been growing the wrong things.

Hi! Glad to hear from some folks down here. Jenny, I wish I had known- I have had vigna caracalla for about 2 years. They bloom and set pods like crazy. I've thrown out a whole grocery bag full last fall and am digging up seedlings (still) of the ones I missed...
Mauirose, just keep trying to grow different things. The tomatoes that Jenny mentioned are dropped off by birds. They grow like crazy here on Oahu also--except that the spidermites get them after a few flushes of tomatoes. I've had some luck with plum tomatoes except the medfly started stinging them and I had to cover--then found out that my neighbor had placed a hormone attractant near my side of the fence...he'elani: didn't know that it was determinate and planted 5 plants, they grew huge and "suddenly" set fruit, buckets of them...brandywine: didn't really care for the taste or the long wait for the fruit...Actually, we should start another thread about "mistakes" in Hawaii gardening...
Lee ;)