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| nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | image = Foster Botanical Garden (general view) - Honolulu, HI.JPG | caption = General view of the garden | location= 50 N. Vineyard Blvd., Honolulu, Hawaii | coordinates = {{coord|21|19|00|N|157|51|33|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Hawaii | area = | built =1853[1] | architect= Harold L. Lyon | architecture= | added = May 13, 1993 | governing_body = Local | refnum=93000377[2] }} Foster Botanical Garden, measuring {{convert|13.5|acre}}, is one of five public botanical gardens on Oahu. It is located at 50 North Vineyard Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, near Chinatown at the intersection of Nu'uanu Avenue and Vineyard Boulevard. Foster is in a highly urban area with strip malls, schools, and both Buddhist and Methodist religious facilities nearby. The Garden is the oldest botanical garden in Hawaii, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. HistoryIn 1853, Queen Kalama leased {{convert|4.6|acre}} of land to William Hillebrand, a German physician and botanist who built his home and planted trees on the site. During his stay, he introduced a number of plants to Hawaii, as well as deer and mynah birds. Many of the large trees growing today on the Upper Terrace were Hillebrand's plantings. After 20 years Hillebrand returned to Germany, where he published Flora of the Hawaiian Islands in 1888. In 1884 the property was sold to Thomas R. Foster and his wife Mary E. Foster (née Robinson), who continued to develop the garden as their homesite. Upon her death in 1930, Mary Foster bequeathed the land and her home to the City and County of Honolulu, with the provision that the city accept and forever keep and properly maintain the (gardens) as a public and tropical park to be known and called Foster Park. At the time, the gardens were roughly {{convert|5.5|acre}}.[3] Dr. Harold Lyon, the first director of Foster Garden, introduced thousands of new plants and trees to Hawaii, and started its famous orchid collection. Paul Weissich, director from 1957 to 1989, expanded Foster Garden to {{convert|14|acre}} of native plants, and developed four additional sites on Oahu Island to create the {{convert|650|acre}} Honolulu Botanical Gardens system. Taken as a whole, these five gardens feature rare species from tropical environments ranging from desert to rainforest, comprising the largest and most diverse tropical plant collection in the United States.[3] The Garden is the inspiration for a line in Joni Mitchell's 1970 folk song "Big Yellow Taxi": "Took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / Then charge people a dollar and a half just to see 'em.".[4] Foster Botanical Garden todayToday the garden consists of the Upper Terrace (the oldest part of the garden); Middle Terraces (palms, aroids, heliconias, gingers); Economic Garden (herbs, spices, dyes, poisons); Prehistoric Glen (primitive plants planted in 1965); Lyon Orchid Garden; and Hybrid Orchid Display. It also contains a number of exceptional trees, including a Sacred Fig which is a clone descendant of the Bodhi tree that Buddha sat under for inspiration, a sapling of which was gifted to Mary Foster by Anagarika Dharmapala in 1913. All told, it contains 25 of about 100 Oahu trees designated as exceptional. The garden also contains several memorials and sculptures:
As of 2011, the admission price for visitors to Hawaii is $5. ImagesFurther reading
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References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.friendsofhonolulubotanicalgardens.com/Foster.htm |title=Foster Botanical Garden |publisher=Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens |accessdate=January 21, 2015 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219105954/http://www.friendsofhonolulubotanicalgardens.com/Foster.htm |archivedate=February 19, 2015 |df= }} 2. ^{{NRISref|2009a}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|title=Foster Botanical Garden|url=https://www.honolulu.gov/cms-dpr-menu/site-dpr-sitearticles/568-foster-botanical-garden.html|publisher=City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii|accessdate=March 7, 2014|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211161338/http://www.honolulu.gov/cms-dpr-menu/site-dpr-sitearticles/568-foster-botanical-garden.html|archivedate=December 11, 2016|df=}} 4. ^{{cite web | last = Mattison | first = Shane | title = Lyric Glossary: "Tree museum" | work = Lyric Glossary | publisher = JoniMitchell.com | url = http://www.jonimitchell.com/research/g_entry.cfm?id=42 | accessdate = 2014-06-11 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080616114102/http://www.jonimitchell.com/research/g_entry.cfm?id=42 |archivedate = 2008-06-16}} External links{{Commons category|Foster Botanical Garden, Honolulu}}
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