Just a little while after moving back to Honolulu, we went hiking at Lanipo. The hike is quite long, and we had started too late in the day, so we had to turn around after only getting halfway there. The place that marks the halfway point is a shaded grove of Norfolk Island Pine trees. I saw quite a few small ones, and decided to pull one and risk bringing it home. Although it turned a little bit brown at first, and it grows quite slowly, the tree is now healthy and prospering.
Buoyed by the experience with the first Norfolk Island Pine, I tried something even riskier recently. This time we were doing the Aiea Loop Hike. Well, actually, we were doing a variant of the hike that required us to slide straight down a mountain and walk down the middle of a stream, but that's a whole other story. While doing this hike, we came across several tiny Norfolk Island Pine sprouts. Feeling confident, I took one home and planted it in with the larger sprout. Although the baby was quite delicate, having only four small straight leaves at first, it has started to grow and even to look like a proper pine sprout! One Christmas, many years from now, we will have trees to decorate!
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