LICH Landscape Hawaii Magazine Aug Sep 2011 Issue

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AUGUST| SEPTEMBER 2011
T H E V O I C E O F H A W A I I ’ S G R E E N I N D U S T R Y LICH’s
RESEARCH
INITIATIVE
With the goal to help policy makers
and researchers prioritize their
resources for the green industry
LICH CELEBRATES
25 YEARS The seed was planted to exchange
info about the industry in 1985
THE WILD WEST
OF ARBORICULTURE
Early days in the industry was filled with
hard workers and colorful characters
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3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO
4 LICH NEWS
24 BUSINESS TIPS
28 TOOL TIPS
34 FEATURED DISORDER
FEATURES
6 LICH ORIGINS
7 EVOLUTION OF LICH
11 CONFERENCE ORIGINS
12 GARRETT WEBB PROFILE
14 CLT ORIGINS
16 THE PATH TO OUR VISION
18 CTAHR HISTORY
20 HASLA CHINATOWN
23 PESTICIDE LABEL
26 WILIWILI GALL WASP
27 NATIVE PLANT
30 LEED
32 PLANT THEFT
36 CLT CERTIFICATION
37 PALM
38 STEVE NIMZ PROFILE
42 PLANT SPACING GUIDELINES
47 ADVERTISE WITH US
COVER STORIES
44 ARBORICULTURE HISTORY
46 LICH RESEARCH INITIATIVE
Hawaii’s landscape industry
is one of the fastest growing and
largest segments of the green in-dustry
with an economic impact
of over $520 million annually
and full time employment of over
11,000 landscape professionals.
The Landscape Industry
Council of Hawai‘I formed in
June 1986, is a statewide al-liance
representing Hawaii’s
landscape associations: Aloha
Arborist Association, American
Society of Landscape Architects
Hawaii Chapter, Hawaii Associa-tion
of Nurserymen, Hawaii Is-land
Landscape Association,
Hawaii Landscape and Irrigation
Contractors, Hawaii Society of
Urban Forestry Professionals,
Kauai Landscape Industry Coun-cil,
Maui Association of Land-scape
Professionals, Professional
Grounds Management Society,
Big Island Association of Nurs-erymen,
and the Hawaii Profes-sional
Gardeners Association.
Landscape Industry Council
of Hawai‘i
P. O. Box 22938, Honolulu HI
96823-2938
www.landscapehawaii.org
Editor
Chris Dacus
Chris.Dacus@gmail.com
Advertising Sales
Jay Deputy
jaydeputy@gmail.com
Designer
Darrell Ishida
Cover Photo
Richard Quinn
Mahalo to Landscape Industry
Council of Hawai‘i Sponsor
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THE VOICE OF HAWAII’S GREEN INDUSTRY LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 3 photo: Shaun Tokunaga
July marks the 25th anniversary of the birth of the
Landscape Industry Council of Hawai’i.
Prior to the formation of LICH, arborists, land-scape
architects, contractors, nurserymen, turf grass
experts and researchers lacked an organization to
represent the diverse industry and a unified voice.
The beginnings started with a few visionaries;
Danny Nakamura, John Okamura, and Lester Inouye
drinking pau hana beers and talking story about get-ting
organized for the benefit of their industry and
our island landscape. They enlisted the help of the
University of Hawaii, which produced a report of the
industry led by Dr. Fred Rauch. This led to the forma-tion
of the Landscape Industry Council of Hawai’i
and the first board of directors, Steve Nimz, Susan
Matsushima, Lester Inouye, and Thomas Aceves.
Committees were quickly formed and LICH was off and running. The legislative
committee led by Jimmy Kuroiwa, Susan Matsushima, John Russell lobbied the
legislature for the landscape industry issues and created the UH CTAHR Land-scape
Specialist position, which led to the hiring Dave Hensley. Danny Nakamura
and Lester Inouye headed a specifications committee developing standard land-scape
irrigation and planting specifications. Pat Oka chaired a committee estab-lishing
nursery standards for plant material. Olive Winslow and Suzan Katz of the
newsletter committee integrated the publishing of the various industry newslet-ters
into the original LICH newsletter. The education committee chaired by Greg
Culver developed many workshops that included cost estimating, palm identifica-tion,
maintenance, water features, native plants and a video library for everyone’s
use. The first economic report of the landscape industry was developed by Linda
Cox showing that the landscape industry was as large as agriculture. Danny Na-kamura,
John Wilkinson, Garrett Webb and Boyd Ready followed as presidents of
LICH.
And it continues today with many industry legends still involved and new
landscape professionals stepping up. LICH has been leading the charge on the
important sustainability initiatives. Five years ago, LICH created the nation’s most
comprehensive statewide invasive species guidelines. A couple of years ago, the
industry formed a water conservation committee chaired by Boyd Ready and
produced new industry standard water saving measures. Over the past year, many
new initiatives have begun including LICH Native Plant Initiative led by four LICH
directors to establish the nation’s first statewide native plant guidelines and certi-fied
native parent plants. A recent initiative chaired by Brandon Au has begun to
update nursery guidelines starting with plant spacing guidelines. Carl Evensen is
co-leading an effort to produce a comprehensive report of the research needs of the
industry. The conference committee is putting together another great conference
and tradeshow led by Jay Deputy and Martin & Carol Miyashiro. Needless to say,
there are many efforts and many more people that should be credited with recent
achievements.
The story of LICH is about a diverse industry coming together for one unified
voice and achieving what was previously unattainable. While we are proud of all
the achievements, our best years lay ahead of us. It’s an incredible time to be in the
green industry, we are entering a time of unparalleled opportunity and importance
as the caretakers and innovators of green infrastructure and the natural systems
of our environment. If anyone is going to save our islands from past development
practices, it’s the green industry. There’s never been a better time to be unified and
be involved.
Happy Birthday, LICH!
Aloha,
Chris Dacus
LICH President

NEWS
NEWS LICH
W h a t s H a p p e n i n g
And the winner is…
Scenic Hawaii Betty Crocker landscape Awards held its 9th Annual
Landscape Award Ceremony on June 27, 2011 featuring awards for pri-vate
gardens, community gardens, professional gardens, and xeriscape
gardens. Belt Collins Hawaii took home three awards for its projects:
Shriners Hospital for Children, Kahala Hotel & Resort – Entry
Drive and Porte Cochere Improvements project and for a
LEED® Platinum single-family private residence in Lanikai.
Special awards included Volunteer of the Year awarded to
Carol Kim and Jennie Tam and the Legacy Award to the D.T.
Fleming Arboretum at Pu‘u Mahoe on Maui.
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THE ORIGINS OF THE LICH
From three buddies getting together, the
seed of the Landscape Industry Council of
Hawai‘i was nutured twenty-five years ago
if the University of Hawaii can help in this
effort. After a couple of meetings with Fred,
he mentioned that Prof. Ingraham from
Ohio State was coming to town and maybe
something could be worked out. Professor
Ingraham was doing a study of the Turf
grass industry at that time. A few weeks
later in July of 1985 Fred asked for a joint
letter, addressed to the Dean of the College
of Tropical Agriculture, from the industry
requesting that a study of the industry be
done. Mike Miyabara, the president of
the ASLA at that time and I went in to
Fred’s office. We met Kevin Mulkern
of the landscape contractors asso-ciation
in Fred’s office to sign the
letter. True to form he was late for
the meeting. Pat Takahashi presi-dent
of the Hawaii Associations
of Nurserymen signed the letter
later that week.
Lester Inouye is a landscape
architect and the principal of
Lester H. Inouye Associates Inc.
and one of the catalysts for the
birth of the Landscape Industry
Council of Hawai’i.
t all started with three people
Danny Nakamura, John Oka-mura,
and Lester Inouye getting
together at least once a week for
several months at Lester’s office for
beer
soda etc. to shoot the bull
regarding happenings on projects
that were going on in the industry. Interest-ingly
the take on who screwed up or exactly
what happened was like the Japanese play
“Rashomon” where the truth lay in the eye
of the beholder. After several weeks of this,
there was a need and a challenge to bring the
two parts of the industry, the landscape con-tractors
and landscape architects, together to
exchange information.
The first meeting was held at the AIA
headquarters, which was on Merchant Street
at that time. A group of 40 to 50 or so people
gathered on the second floor office with
pupus and beer soda in hand. Ted Green
was the moderator. You can imagine the dif-ficulty
constraining each side from speaking
up. Actually the meeting went quite well.
Danny, John and Lester got together in the
weeks after and mulled over what to do next.
Some time in May 1985, Lester approached
Fred Rauch and explained what happened
and the need to move this forward asking
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t all started with a letter to the
Dean of the College of Tropi-cal
Agriculture and Human
Resources (CTAHR), Dr. Noel P.
Kefford, dated July 9, 1985. The
letter from three organizations as-sociated
with the landscape indus-try
in Hawaii (Hawaii Chapter, American
Society of Landscape Architects, Hawaii
Landscape Irrigation Contractors Asso-ciation
of Hawaii, and Hawaii Association
of Nurserymen) requested that the Col-lege
undertake an analysis of the industry
to help identify problem areas and pos-sible
solutions. The College is responsible
for the preparation of the analysis of the
various segments of Hawaii’s agricultural
industries.
After a series of meetings and consul-tations,
the administration of CTAHR
decided to do a preliminary analysis. Dr.
Charles H. Ingraham, Professor Emeritus,
Ohio State University, was employed to
(1) determine the structure of the Hawaii
landscape industry and the interaction
of the components, (2) identify specific
BY DR. FRED D. RAUCH
problems in the Hawaii land-scape
industry, and (3) deter-mine
options for solutions.
Initial efforts consisted of
gathering background informa-tion
and visits with various com-ponents
of the industry. CTAHR
resource persons included Fred D.
Rauch, Horticulture Specialist, and
Melvin Wong and Fred Fujimoto,
County Extension Agents. This was
followed with a series of four meet-ings
in which representatives of the
organizations involved with the various
components of the industry were invited
to participate. The Hawaii Turfgrass As-sociation
was not included since they had
already completed a separate analysis. A final
report, which included a summary of industry
problems and possible solutions, ranked by or-der
of priority, was submitted on April 22, 1986.
Having generated considerable momentum
through the sharing of mutual concerns, the
participants continued their monthly meetings.
After little progress, Dr. Fred D. Rauch was asked
to take the lead and serve as convener for the meet-
LANDSCAPEHAWAII.ORG 7

ings. After some initial discussion at the next meeting (June
3,1986) to bring those in attendance up to date, it was decided
to focus on the first priority identified in the Ingraham report,
‘no organized communication and coordination among the
components of the landscape industry’. One of the solutions
was to form a Landscape Industry Council. To accomplish this
it was decided to form a working committee comprised of two
representatives from the existing six component organiza-tions.
Some of the issues addressed were: if a council should be
formed, the nature and structure of such a council, and what
would the council do (purpose). After agreement that an
organization would be beneficial to the landscape industry
in Hawaii a name was selected, LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY
COUNCIL OF HAWAII (LlCH), with the purposes ‘improve
the quality of the landscape environment and promote the
growth of the landscape industry in Hawaii. In achieving these
purposes, the Council shall serve to:
a. Coordinate and establish communication between the
respective segments of the landscape industry
b. Encourage and support research and development con-ducive
to the advancement of the landscape industry;
c. Promote and represent the landscape industry;
d. Educate the members of the Council to improve their
knowledge and skills;
e. Lobby for legislation favorable to the landscape industry;
f. Increase public awareness and appreciation of the land-scape
industry;
g. Other activities beneficial to the landscape industry as
determined by the Council.
Before proceeding with the Council bylaws, it was deter-mined
that broader input and support for such an organiza-tion
was desirable. A one-day workshop was planned for Sep-tember
13, 1986 at the University of Hawaii-Manoa Campus
Center Ballroom. The workshop theme was “New Opportuni-ties
in Hawaii’s Landscape Industry.” The program was well
amended by about 114 individuals representing an excellent
cross section of the industry including production, design,
construction, and maintenance as well as
the public
and
pri-vate
sectors
and from all
the Islands.
The morning
program provided
an introduction to the
landscape council concept
and then the participants
were divided into five discussion
groups based on industry associations. These
groups were charged with determining if
some type of industry wide organization
would be beneficial to their segment of
the industry and how such an organiza-tion
should be structured. During the
afternoon session, the participants were
divided into four working groups: communi-cation,
education, industry growth/research
and development, and quality. The discussion
leaders prepared a position paper for each of
the sessions.
In addition to reaching agreement on the
need for a landscape council, one of the more
positive aspects of the workshop was the discus-sions
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that were taking place within and between
the various segments of the landscape industry.
This was especially evident during the lunch and
coffee breaks.
A major part of preparing for the workshop was
the development of a mailing list those involved
with the landscape industry. This was compiled from
the membership lists from the six organizations and
information supplied from the county extension agents
in the four counties. This required considerable cross
checking as many of the lists were out of date and con-tained
many duplications.
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Following the workshop, the committee focused on the
development of a set of bylaws for the council. After review
and approval by the charter members of the Council Aloha
Arborists Association (AAA), American Society of Landscape
Architects-Hawaii Chapter (ASLA), Hawaii Association of
Nurserymen (HAN), Hawaii Guild of Professional Garden-ers
ouncil ociation nal Garden-
tion Col-rces
ber, e (HGPG), Hawaii Landscape and Irrigation Contractors
Association (HLlCA), Hawaii Turfgrass Association (HTA), Col-lege
of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR),
University of Hawaii-Manoa - Ex Officio Member, the by-laws
were revised, reviewed by legal council, and the organization
registered as a nonprofit organization.
In the themeantime
meantime,
a second all day workshop was organized
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at the Ala Moana Americana Hotel in
conjunction with the Annual Ornamentals Short Course
sponsored by the University of Hawaii-Manoa Extension
Service. The theme
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Landscape Industry’ and featured Mr. Charies Vander
Kooi of Littleton, Colorado. Again the workshop was
attended by
an excellent cross section of the indus-try
with 128
registered.
In keeping
with one of the purposes of the Land-scape
Land-bers
Council, to ‘educate the members of the
Council to improve their knowledge and skill,’
a special program on estimating was planned
as a follow up to the March workshop. This
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conducted by Mr. Vander Kooi.
Since the number one problem for
the landscape industry identified in the
Ingraham report was communications, a
entified munications, ed ked ndustry newsletter committee was formed chaired by
John Wilkenson. This committee worked closely with
Trade Publishing to come up with an industry wide
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10 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2011 newsletter. Susan Katz and Olive Vanselow agreed to serve as
the newsletter coeditors with Fred D. Rauch, as technical editor.
The first issue of the bimonthly newsletter was July 1, 1987 and
contained news from each the charter organizations, technical
columns written by specialists from the University of Hawaii,
feature stories, and a calendar of events.
At the July 7, 1987 meeting of the Landscape Council Commit-tee,
the first officers for the Council were determined as follows:
Q President- Steve Nimz, The Tree People, representing AAA
Q Vice President - Susan Matsushima, Amfac Garden Hawaii,
representing HAN
Q Secretary - Lester H. Inouye, Lester H. Inouye Assoc.,
representing ASLA
Q Treasurer - Thomas J. Aceves, Trop Ag Landscape Services,
representing HTA
During the spring of 1987, Dr. Fred D. Rauch and Dr. Charles
L Murdoch started working on the first comprehensive analysis
of the landscape industry, this was presented to the Governor’s
Agriculture Coordinating Committee (GACC) on November 18,
1987. The committee approved a total of $35,000 for priorities
established in the Landscape Industry Analysis at it’s January
meeting; $5,000 to provide educational and training programs
for existing workers of the industry, and $30,000 to determine
the economic value of the landscape industry in Hawaii.
The Council started work on the top priorities identified in
the Landscape Industry Analysis by forming three committees;
Education, Landscape Specifications, and Plant Grades and
Standards.
Poorly trained individuals in all phases of the landscape indus-try
in Hawaii was identified as the number one priority. One
of the actions indentified was to ‘develop educational materials
(publications, slide sets, video tapes, etc.) on cultural practices
and pesticide application techniques.’ The Education Com-mittee,
chaired by Greg Culver, obtained a number of existing
video tapes from the mainland, reviewed them for suitability for
Hawaii, and purchased seven tapes to initiate a reference library.
These video tapes have been made available to the Landscape
Industry for a nominal rental fee to cover the cost of handling.
The Education Committee continues to sponsor or cosponsor
various educational programs (priority No. 1, ‘Provide educa-tional
and training programs for existing workers of the indus-try’);
1. Ornamental Short Course, March 22- 23, 1998, Maui Com-munity
College, Kahului. Included foliage/potted plant and
landscape/nursery concurrent sessions with 220 in attendance.
2. Landscape Maintenance Workshop, September 23,1988,
Outrigger Kuhio Holel, Honolulu. Topics included pruning,
disease and insect pests, irrigation trouble shooting, and main-taining
interiorscapes. An estimated 50 people had to be tumed
away due to a maximum space limitation of 200.
3. Ornamental Short Course, March 30- 31, 1989, King Kame-hameha
Hotel, Kailua-Kana. Included foliage/potted plant and
landscape nursery concurrent sessions with a capacity atten-dance
of 311.
4. Landscape Maintenance Field Day, May 6, 1989 University
of Hawaii Waimanalo Experiment Station, Waimanalo. Follow
up of Landscape Maintenance Workshop to provide ‘hands on’
training on turfgrass management, landscape weed control, and
irrigation trouble shooting, with a total of 101 in attendance.
5. Landscape Palm Short Course, June 17, 1989, Ala Moana
Hotel, Honolulu. Focus on problems, establishment, and
maintenance of palms in the landscape with 201 in attendance.
The sessions were video taped and will be made available to the
industry.
6. Water in the Landscape Short Course, August 31, 1989,
Hyatt Regency Maui, Kaanapai. Focus on design, components,
and maintenance of landscape water features with 61 in atten-dance.
In addition, the Landscape Council has participated in or
assisted with the Hawaii Association of Nurserymen (HAN)
Annual Conference and Trade Show, the HAN Plant Show and
Sale, and the Hawaii Federation of Garden Clubs, Landscape
Design Study Course.
A committee, chaired by Pat Oka, was formed to look into the
problem of ‘lack of plant quality’ (priority No.3). The commit-tee
of volunteers from the various segments of the industry
initiated work on the establishment of grades and standards for
landscape plant material in Hawaii. After reviewing available
nursery plant grades from other States, the committee decided
to follow those established by Florida. Initial lists of commonly
used plants were established (trees, palms, shrubs, and ground
covers) as a starting point. Charles Nagamine was recruited
to start assembling information on grades and standards for
shrubs as part of his MS graduate program at the University of
Hawaii.
The number four priority identified in the Industry Analysis
was ‘inadequate specifications for assuring quality work in land-scape
installations and inadequate supervision of contractors
during establishment to assure that specifications are followed.’
The Landscape Specification Committee, chaired by Lester H.
Inouye (ASLA) and Danny Nakamura (HLICA), reviewed exist-ing
specifications used by the Industry and drafted revised spec-ifications
to be used as a guide for future projects in Hawaii.
Congratulations to LICH on reaching this significant mile-stone
of service to the “Green Industry” of Hawaii, the 25th
Anniversary. I feel honored to have had the opportunity to work
with this industry for 25 years in Hawaii and to have a major
part in the birth of the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii.
One of the things I enjoy most is the challenge of how to
make thing work better or how to get things done. A major
challenge was how to get all the diverse organizations within
the “Green Industry” in Hawaii under one umbrella. The result
was the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii. The first two to
three years were especially exciting with all the energy within
the organization. I had to run to keep up. This resulted in every-one
talking to each other (rather than pointing fingers), work-ing
together to solve industry problems and the first ever state
wide/industry wide trade show and conference in 1992. Allen
Clarke, a local landscape architect, returning from a national
meeting, reported that Hawaii was the first state in the nation
to have all the “Green Industry” organizations together.
One of the things that I still cherish was being awarded the
Malama Aina Award in 1994 by the American Society of Land-scape
Architects – Hawaii Chapter. This put me in company
with such Hawaii treasures as Paul Weissich, Bea Krause and
the Outdoor Circle. The future looks bright for LICH for anoth-er
25 years with the continued support of the industry member-ship
and the current strong leadership. Congratulations!
Dr. Fred D. Rauch is an Emeritus Professor in Ornamental Hor-ticulture
from the University of Hawaii and one of the catalysts for
the birth of the Landscape Industry Council of Hawai’i.

LICH
The Oct. 6 event has a long
history of successful programs
CONFERENCE AND TRADESHOW BY JAY DEPUTY
This year the LICH Conference and
Tradeshow will be held on October 6th
and will feature another national indus-try
leader, the Director of Landscape
Architecture at Walt Disney Imagineer-ing,
Jeff Morosky. Jeff manages the area
development team responsible for Dis-ney
theme parks and resorts worldwide,
including retail, dining and entertain-ment
districts. One of his recent major
projects include the Disney Resort Spa
in Ko‘olina, the Aulani scheduled to open
August 29, 2011. Learn how the Imagi-neers
at Disney meet the challenges as
they balance creativity, functionality, and
sustainability and create enduring envi-ronments
that fully engage the senses.
Jay Deputy is the state administrator
for the Certified Landscape Technician
program and a member of the LICH Board
of Directors.
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conferences and trade
shows were
held periodically but
were not conducted from the mid 90’s
until 2003 when LICH partnered with
the Agricultural Leadership to present a
conference and trade show at the Pacific
Beach Hotel. That first event was a big
success and the following year and years
thereafter, LICH has presented two-day
conferences and trade shows at vari-ous
locations in Honolulu. The two-day
educational programs have proven very
popular until the last few years, as atten-dance
has fallen off during the current
economic hard times.
As a result, the 2011 Conference and
Trade show will be a one day program
and returns to the Neal Blaisdell Exhibi-tion
Hall. Four to five concurrent break-out
sessions are planned for the educa-tional
portion, providing a wide variety
of speakers and topics from which to
choose. Pesticide, PLANET CLT, and ar-borist
sessions will all carry continuing
education units (CEU) for recertification
of those holding these licenses. Attend-ees
this year will benefit from many
great educational sessions condensed
into one day earning many CEUs.
The trade show is once again orga-nized
by Martin and Carol Miyashiro of
Diamond Head Sprinkler Supply. A large
area of the exhibition hall has been re-served
for regular booths in addition to
larger areas where big equipment will be
displayed. The trade show portion will
open to conference attendees at 10:15 am
and this year the tradeshow is free to the
public. Make sure you stop by and see
the latest machines, tools and products
to improve your landscape and a chance
to win some very nice door prizes given
away at the close of the trade show.
Other past locations of the LICH Con-ference
have been the Waikiki Marriott
Hotel in 2004 through 2006, Neal Blais-dell
Exhibition hall from 2007 to 2009
and Koolau Conference Center in 2010.
Many national and local industry leaders
have presented through the years includ-ing
arborists Ed Gillman and Don Hodel;
business consultants Ted Garrison and
Charles Vander Kooi; architects James
Urban, Grant Jones, Bill Wenk, James
Gibbons, Walter Hood, and Kenneth
Helphand; politicians Mufi Hannemann
and Duke Aiona, horticulturist Sharon
Lilly, a number of turf experts from
mainland universities, and many local
experts from University of Hawaii and
Hawaii’s Green Industry.

MAKING
MUSIC IN THE LANDSCAPE
calls “the hippie years” until he “crash landed” in
the Islands in 1978.
“I got myself (on the right path), cut my hair
and got my first real job,” he recalled. “I needed
a job and started pulling weeds – and never
stopped.”
He eventually started his own company, facing
not only challenges professionally, but personally,
as well.
“The first 4-1/2 years of being a business owner,
I was also a single dad of three kids,” he said.
“Challenging, too, was getting, training and keep-ing
good employees and paying all taxes and fees.”
lot of people look up to Garrett
Webb, CLP. Seriously, they do.
That’s one of the first things
you notice about the owner
of
Kalaoa Gardens in Kailua-
Kona and a past president of the
Landscape Industry Council of
Hawaii. He’s usually the tallest person in the
room.
But take the time to talk to the Certified
Landscape Professional and you’ll find an ami-able,
erudite man, who enjoys life among the
plants and making music.
Born in New York, Webb
was raised in Washington,
D.C., going to high school in
Vermont and then college in
Wisconsin.
For someone who advo-cates
continuing education
for landscapers – notably
helping to establish the
now ubiquitous Certified
Landscape Technician
(CLT) program – some
might be surprised
that his plans at col-lege
didn’t quite work
out.
“I’m an English
major dropout,”
Webb admits,
saying he also got
educated at the
“school of hard
knocks.”
And so en-sued
what he
BY CHRIS AGUINALDO
Former LICH president Garrett Webb layed the
groundwork for the future success of the council
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Photos courtesy of Garrett Webb
Former LICH President Garrett Webb,
CLP, collects Pritchardia beccariana
at his farm in Kailua-Kona.
Yet despite those challenges, the allure
of paradise remains more than satisfy-ing
for Webb including “the beauty of
the land, the amazing number of plants,
especially the palms and the cycads that
we can grow and enjoy year round.”
Today, Kalaoa Gardens is a well-regarded
supplier of a variety of palms,
with Webb enthusiastically encouraging
the use of new varieties in Kona gardens.
He credits part of his success to being
part of professional organizations, such
as the Hawaii Island Landscape Associa-tion
and LICH.
LICH is an opportunity for “network-ing
with other successful landscapers
and sharing our knowledge,” he said.
Under his term as president, LICH
began to develop into the more modern,
streamlined organization it is today,
setting the council up for success for its
following president Boyd Ready and cur-rent
president Chris Dacus.
Webb said that some highlights of his
term were seeing the CLT program grow
and contribute to the industry state-wide,
experiencing the revitalization of
a statewide industry that landscapers
began to see the value of, and the return
of an annual green industry conference
and trade show.
He’s still active in LICH and says its
work isn’t over yet. In fact, it’s just begin-ning.
“It’s time to get a professional, paid ex-ecutive
director,” he said, which will help
LICH accomplish even greater things in
the future.
But Webb doesn’t always look to the fu-ture.
Of late, he’s been also looking back
into the past – several hundred years.
“I play Renaissance and Baroque music
on many sizes of recorders,” he said
proudly. “I study and play from fac-similes
of 15th century music, written in
Franco Flemish notation.”
In other words, Webb’s approach
to those pre-classical music periods is
pretty authentic, from source materi-als
to the instruments. He’s performed
in concerts and has taken his love of
early music to the Amherst Early Music
Workshop.
Webb also sings bass in his local com-munity
chorus.
But whether it’s leading the local green
industry or a group of early music per-formers,
Webb thanks “my life partner
and business partner Julie Benkofsky-
Webb” for all she does.
And that’s music to Garett’s (very high)
ears.
Chris Aguinaldo is a writer and photog-rapher
in Hawaii. He’s also a former editor
of Hawaii Landscape. See http://twitter.
com/ChrisAguinaldo

ALIVE
WELLBY JAY DEPUTY
A short history on the successful training and exam
program (CLT) Certified Landscape Technician
14 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2011 Canada. Hawaii became the first state to
offer a comprehensive training program
to prepare candidates for the exam. The
first classes and certification exam were
offered in Kona in 1999. Garrett Webb
and Diana Duff were both involved in
the instruction of the classes and Webb
served as administrator of the first exam.
That exam was conducted on the campus
of the newly opened Kealakekehe High
School in Kailua-Kona, which continues
to serve as the site for the Big Island exam.
The exam was very long and difficult in
those days, the national pass rate for first
time candidates was under 10%. Vic Paul-son
became certified landscape technician
after retaking one question. David Rogers
and Steve Breed, took retakes after Vic
had passed and got their certification. The
first two people to pass the CLT in Hawaii
with no retakes were Erin Lee (as we
know) a woman and George Yokoyama,
by far the oldest man to take the test.
The exam has since been modified and
shortened by the PLANET national cer-tification
committee, resulting in a much
higher pass rate today. Webb and Paulson
and Erin Lee all served as Big Island coor-dinators
for many years. Garrett and Vic
both were also instrumental in starting
he
Hawaii Landscape
Training and Certi-fication
program had its
beginnings in Kona during
the Spring
of 1999. Former
UH Landscape Specialist Dr.
Dave Hensley had submitted a
grant proposal for the development of
a landscape training and certification
program in 1998 that was not funded at
that time. A year later, Hensley left UH to
take another position on the mainland,
and suggested that someone from the Ha-waii
Green Industry should re-submit the
proposal. This eventually led to members
of Hawaii Island Landscape Association
(HILA) headed by Garrett Webb and
Diana Duff, taking up the effort to get the
program funded. The end result was a
two year grant funding the development
of the training classes and obtaining the
license to administer the national CLT
certification exam which was then owned
by ALCA. Hawaii was the first in the na-tion
to develop an education and training
program for the CLT program.
At that time , as is still true today, the
CLT certification was recognized as the
only official national certification process
for professional landscapers in the US and
the program m on all other
Islands.
Training classes and the first certifica-the
certifica-tion
exam followed on Oahu the next
year. Three sessions of 12 classes were
taught by myself and Paul Murakami at
different locations on Oahu and I took
over the administration of the CLT exams
at that time. The first Oahu CLT exam
was held at Windward Community Col-lege.
We had about 35 candidates for that
exam and Randy Liu, currently grounds
supervisor of Starwood Hotels and
Resorts, was the first CLT to be certified
on Oahu. Randy served as Oahu Exam
Coordinator for many years before Mike
Johnson of Landscape Hawaii, Inc. took
that responsibility several years ago. Matt
Lyum, owner of Performance Landscape,
has long served as the State Exam Coor-dinator
since taking over from Garrett
Webb.
Training and certification followed
on Maui in 2001 but the program only
lasted for two years. During that time two
exams were conducted at Maui Com-munity
College. Jeff Bantilan and Karen
Fitzgerald were the first of five candidates
to earn the CLT on Maui.
Kauai started the program in 2003 with
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exam conducted at Kauai Community College.
First time CLTs on Kauai were Steven Cardinez,
James Toledo and Thomas Middleton. The Kauai
program has remained strong over the years
thanks in part to the initial support and direction
of Vic Paulson and dedicated coordination by Lee
Ridley and his long-standing group of JTAs Larry
Borgatti, Dan Ingersoll, Scott . The Kauai team
is unique in that most of those involved have
served as class instructors and exam judges
from the very beginning.
The Hawaii Certification program has
proven to be one of the more successful ones
in the country, conducting up to three exams
a year offering certification in Turf Mainte-nance,
Ornamental Maintenance, Softscape
Installation, and Irrigation. During the past
eleven years we have certified a total of
217 landscape professionals, many hold-ing
multiple certifications. The individual
count by Island location is Oahu 94, Big
Island 85, Kauai 33 and Maui 5. A complete
list of CLTs is given by Island location on
the Certification page in this issue. You
can visit the LICH web site for a more
complete list of the types of certifica-tions
held by each CLT.
Jay Deputy is the state administrator
for the Certified Landscape Technician
program and a member of the LICH
Board of Directors.
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16 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2011 THE PATH
TO OURVISION
awaii’s
people
understand
that
agricul-ture,
forestry,
and the built
landscape enhance and preserve the life of
the land; Hawaii’s legislators take action
to assist the green industry; and Hawaii’s
professional cultivators know each other,
acknowledge mutual and individual ac-complishments,
and strive to better their
knowledge and skill in harmony with
Hawaii’s unique ecosystem.”
The Landscape Industry Council of
Hawaii, itself, is a small group of active
people, leaders from different trades and
professions, but representative of many.
Ten to twelve thousand working in our
industry, and hundreds of thousands of
residents, and millions of visitors, depend
upon us to beautify and enhance Hawaii.
Over the past 25 years we have had
3 crucial ‘visioning’ events, two among
ourselves, and one with the Farm Bureau’s
various ‘commodity group’ leaders. I was
active in each of these events, and was the
author of our vision statement, officially
adopted by the Council in 2010.
Founded in the 1980’s, the Council
became somewhat inactive in the ‘90’s,
represented for a number of years simply
by the Hawaii Landscape publication. A
group of long-time industry participants
convened in 1999 and considered the
question: should we close it, or continue
it? The decision to continue was followed
by CLT: a major move into nationally-linked
professional development initiated
in Kona by Garrett Webb, Vic Paulson,
Erin Lee, and others at Kona Farm Bureau
and HILA (Hawaii Island Landscape Asso-ciation)
and supported by LICH with the
help of Jay Deputy at UH. Controversy
ensued as to how to allocate the revenues
and activities and responsibilities of the
new program. To ratify and direct the re-birth
of the Council a major rural retreat
was organized: at Camp Mokuleia!
Rustic, isolated, at the seashore, Camp
Mokuleia in 2001 hosted our first Council
‘strategic planning’ retreat. Donna Ching
of the Ag Leadership Foundation moder-ated
the ‘brainstorming’ sessions and pro-duced
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Participants discuss the mission state-ment
at the first LICH Retreat in 2001.

the ‘group memory.’
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mission statement emerged. d. Our
purposes were found to be primar-zational
primar-ily
professional and organizational
development, with environmental mental issues
taking a back seat. We have to be doing
something well together before fore we can do
well for the world as a whole le it seemed!
As a result we established…
LICH MISSION
STATEMENT
“Recognizing the di-versity
of the landscape
industry, the mission of
LICH is to build unity by
promoting high stan-dards
and professional-ism
through education,
training, and certifica-tion,
by providing a fo-rum
for the sharing of
information, and by cel-ebrating
the success of
its members.”
After that 2001 event we continued
with annual conferences, a gradually and
increasingly statewide CLT program of
training and certification, put on oc-casional
workshops, and participated in
some public controversies. Our financial
statements continued to show gradu-ally
accruing positive balances year over
year. The CLT activities, and the annual
conferences, closely monitored by Trea-surer
Larry Thornton (National Memo-rial
Cemetery grounds manager), Garrett
Webb, Vic Paulsen, and Jay Deputy, were
kept on a paying basis. Chris Aguinaldo
of the Hawaii Landscape magazine kept
everyone apprised of our activities, and
I participated as Secretary, then became
President. In 2005-2006 we engaged
consultants and created the LICH
Foundation, for educational and training
activities, and aligned Board procedures,
by-laws, and financial statements to ac-commodate
the two organizations.
The Hawaii Farm
Bureau invited us to a commodity group
meeting held at the DLNR’s Plant Quar-antine
DLNRs Quar
Quar- ited Division’s offices near Sand Island.
I represented us with all the various
commodity groups, from cattlemen to
beekeepers to papaya growers to forestry
to cut flower and nursery producers.
Seeking a vision that could include all the
green cultivators, a small committee of
other commodity leaders and I authored
our vision statement, and it was voted ac-ceptable
in the entire Farm Bureau group.
“Hawaii’s people understand that agri-culture,
forestry, and the built landscape
enhance and preserve the life of the
land; Hawaii’s legislators take action to
assist the green industry; and Hawaii’s
professional cultivators know each other,
acknowledge mutual and individual ac-complishments,
and strive to better their
knowledge and skill in harmony with
Hawaii’s unique ecosystem.”
In 2009 we convened again, this time at
the opulent New Otani Hotel in Waikiki,
for a strategic planning session. Leaders
from throughout the State, broadened
to include environmental stewards and
educators, convened for an entire day
session of brainstorming and small group
collaboration. This vision statement,
along with action items for Education,
Environmental Stewardship, Membership
Outreach, and Publications/Communica-tion,
was accepted by the retreat group.
LICH and LICH-Foundation Directors
then ratified the vision statement, and
we are now rhetorically, anyway, united.
forestry, farming and landscaping.
Our new leadership under Chris Dacus
is proceeding to make this unity a reality.
The close linkage with conservation and
environmental professionals, our land-scape
architects, arborists, and landscap-ers’
professional training and certification,
means that our goals are closer than ever
to fruition. I want to thank all who have
participated, and all who have seen their
way clear to alignment, with our goals,
for their public spirited efforts.
At the Conservation Conference in
2009 the Emeritus Forestry Professor
from Hilo stood to commend us, unsolic-ited
unsolic-it
d and d passionately, i t l for f achieving hi i what
h t
no other landscape organization in the
United States has done, a true collabora-tion
for conservation, the use of natives,
and the control of invasive species. To-gether
we can make the landscape indus-try
a professional and effective source for
environmental stewardship and profes-sional
development that will be a pace
setter for the nation and the world.
Boyd Ready is the Vice President of the
Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii and
also Vice-President, RME, Certified Arborist
of Akahi Services, Inc.
Hedplxplxplxplx
2001 Participants: Rory Alli-son,
Dennis Bain, Doug Baugh-man,
Fredrich Boeck, George
Broderson, Jay Deputy, Diana
Duff, Kenneth Findeisen, Beth
Holiday, Robin Hurlbut, Les-ter
Inouye, Mark Leon, Lelan
Nishek, Mike Miyabara, Steve
Nimz, Vic Paulson, Boyd Ready,
Garrett Webb, Mel Wong, and
John Ybara.
2009 Participants: Jay
Deputy, Boyd Ready , Allan
Schildknecht, Christy Mar-tin,
Christopher Dacus, Karen
Ostborg, Erin Lee, Randy Liu,
Steve Nimz, Matt Lyum, Judy
Nii , Rick Quinn, Priscilla Mil-len,
Mike Johnson, Lee Ridley ,
Jacqueline Kozak

COLLEGE OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
AND HUMAN
RESOURCES
TROPICAL
AGRICULTURE
PHOTOS COURTESY OF UH CTAHR
he
early history of the
College of Tropical Agri-culture
and Human Resourc-es—
CTAHR—is the history of
the University of Hawai‘i itself.
The institution that would one
day become
UH was originally
established as a “land grant” college in
1907 as the College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts. It opened with a student
body of only five—in fact, faculty and
staff originally outnumbered the
students. Though its early years were
plagued with uncertainty and money
concerns, the school was nonethe-less
home to passionate researchers
and instructors and was deeply con-nected
with the land from the start.
While the college was first housed
across the street from Thomas
Square, suggestions for its permanent
location ranged from Mountain View,
on the Big Island, to Lahainaluna, Maui,
to Wai‘anae on O‘ahu. But by 1911 the na-scent
school had moved to its present-day
home in Mānoa Valley and built its first
building there—a shed for mules, feed,
and farm implements!
The history of CTAHR’s name is a story
in and of itself. In 1911, the College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts became
the College of Hawaii. In 1920, it became
the University of Hawaii, comprised of
the colleges of Applied Science—which
included agriculture—and Arts and Sci-ences.
In 1931, the Graduate School of
Tropical Agriculture was established by
18 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2011 wford, Gradu- This University President David Crawford, and
the College of Agriculture was created
in 1947 when faculty from the Coopera-tive
Extension service and the research
Experiment Stations merged with the
agriculture and home economics teaching
faculty in the College of Applied Science.
In 1970 the school’s name was changed to
the College of Tropical Agriculture to re-flect
its particular Island focus, and finally,
in 1978, reorganization in the college’s
structure led to its present name, which
has remained constant for over 30 years.
Sometimes competing and sometimes
complementary interests have shaped
wooden framed home, called the
Maerten’s house, is where the first classes
for the university were held in 1908.
the college. The first Dean of the Gradu-ate
School of Tropical Agriculture, Royal
Chapman, was a member of the Pineapple
Research Institute, and researchers from
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association
provided their own research expertise.
While these powerful industries at-tempted
to pull the school’s focus in the
direction of their own interests, larger
political and economic events such as
World War I and the Great Depression
urged continued attention to diversi-fied
agriculture to fill the possible
need for Island self-sufficiency.
Though Statehood and advances in
transportation technology seemed
to lessen the urgency of this need for
a time, sustainability and increased
self-sufficiency are again important
focuses for the college today.
Almost from the beginning,
instruction, research, and extension—
outreach to the community—were
mingled in the college’s activities. A
working farm had been incorporated into
the campus when it was first founded,
where students gained practical experi-ence
and researchers experimented with
breeds, varieties, and techniques. From
the institution’s earliest days researchers
had established outposts—experiment
stations—to take advantage of the Islands’
numerous microclimates and to be closer
to those college helped. The Mānoa cam-pus
itself housed, at one time or another,
large agricultural test plots; sheds for
poultry, swine, and cattle; a milking shed;
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an insectary; and an orchid house and
other greenhouses. As space consider-ations
on the campus dictated that these
land-intensive activities be moved, the
college further developed the research sta-tions
already in place and established new
ones, deliberately creating an expansion
of research across the state. In the 1960’s
a new crop of specialists were hired to
help the farmers and ranchers depending
on the college’s expertise with increas-ingly
specialized questions about their
burgeoning beef, poultry, swine, and sugar
operations. Today the majority of CTAHR
faculty combine research, instruction, and
extension activities.
The college’s growth during the past
100 years has been nothing short of
remarkable. From a combined Territorial
and federal budget of less than $50,000
in 1907 (about $1 million today), the col-lege’s
current budget is nearly $40 million.
From the two original preparatory class
instructors, the college now employs
about 500 faculty and staff. College en-rollment
has increased from the original
five provisional students to 565 under-graduates
and 257 graduate students last
year, and the college now counts over
10,500 graduates among its alumni. The
college’s original 90 acres on the Mānoa
campus, most of it once devoted to agri-culture,
have grown to include over 1,600
acres of off-campus facilities, including 22
research stations, farms, and centers, as
well as nine extension offices and centers.
The Mānoa campus facilities have grown
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This 1912 photo illustrates how large the
college farm in Manoa was, extending from
near Hawaii Hall to Manoa Stream.
from shared space in Hawaii Hall to over
300,000 square feet of laboratories, of-fices,
and classrooms located primarily
in seven major agricultural buildings. In
short, CTAHR’s history is a story of the
continued and vital importance of agri-culture,
of the land and the people of the

PARKS
PARKWAY
t the edge of Honolulu
Chinatown lies a historic
watershed called Nuua-nu
Stream, sandwiched
between River Street
and College Walk, be-tween
asphalt and
20 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2011 concrete sidewalks. The stream carries a
somewhat mediocre look and old-time
flavor that makes visitors wonder what
the story is behind this stream. Vehicles
cross above Nuuanu Stream, bicyclists,
pedestrians, and shoppers pass by daily;
children and seniors wander down to en-joy
the scenery of an intermittent stream,
while folks fish from the bridges. It is a
landscape that is nothing distinctive, so
why do I want to talk about it?
Perhaps, the current streetscape along
the Nuuanu Stream is not significantly
eye-catching, however, the green spaces
along the Nuuanu Stream attract more
than 75,000 visitors annually, and are
definitely worth a short trip.
Nuuanu Stream originates from two
waterfalls, Waipuilani Falls and Waipuhia
Falls. The water is collected at Nuuanu
reservoir becomes Nuuanu Stream that
slowly flows down into the Honolulu
Harbor. Above Kuakini Street, Nuuanu
Stream merges with Waolani Stream, and
becomes the Waikahalulu Waterfall, a
natural fall that is surrounded by an urban
setting within the Queen Liliuokalani
Botanical Garden. The smallest among
Honolulu’s Botanical Gardens, Liliuoka-lani
Garden surprisingly provides the most
genuine Hawaiian nature and the best
sense of forest within the city. Additional-ly,
the garden is home to a beautiful collec-tion
of native Hawaiian plants. The design
of the garden is intended to provide a
simple, tranquil, and undeveloped feel that
anyone who visits the garden would find
a sense of natural embracement. Once a
favorite picnic spot of Queen Liliuokalani,
this garden stands out with its unique
natural layout and its historic significance
providing visitors a place of pure green in
the urban environment.
The Liliuokalani Garden borders the
H-1 Freeway which connects with the
Foster Botanical Garden on the south
side. The space underneath H-1 Freeway
between Liliuokalani Garden and Foster
Garden currently is an abandoned space
that results in several social issues such
as graffiti. With over 150 years of his-tory,
Foster Botanical Garden is a living
museum of tropical plants with a variety
of Hawaiian plants. It is an area of over
13.5 acres with a combination of sacred
Hawaiian spirit and Zen sensation. Foster
Botanical Garden may not provide as
much forestry as the Liliuokalani Garden,
but it is nonetheless a wonderful place
for city residents to find a peaceful mind
within the busy urban surroundings, and
a great place for educating visitors about
the various types of plants.
After Foster Botanical Garden, Nuuanu
Stream becomes a man-made channel-ized
concrete structure with an urban
context. Here we start seeing the path of
the Chinatown history such as the Kuan
Yin Temple, Lung Sai Ho Tong temple,
and the Izumo Taisha shrine, Chinatown
Cultural Plaza and the modern Hawaii
USA Federal Credit Union building.
After a couple of city blocks, we come to
another green space, Aala Park, on the
Ewa side of the Nuuanu Stream. Like an
oasis rising from a desert, the Aala Park
stands out from the surrounding concrete
structures as one of the biggest parks
in downtown Honolulu. Aala Park was
originally designed to feature as a baseball
park, and functioned as a sports field with
simultaneous games in the early 1900s.
The park nowadays still carries some
sport characters such as skateboarding
and basketball playing, but is also oc-cupied
by homeless and unfortunately is
defined as a problematic area. Despite the
current issues, the park provides a green
space and abundant shade.
After Aala Park, Nuuanu Stream flows
under Nimitz Highway into Honolulu
Harbor.
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The ASLA Honolulu Chinatown River walk Revitalization
and Downtown Connectivity study planned to improve
the Nuuanu Stream corridor

In 2010 the ASLA Hawaii Chapter be-gan
the Honolulu Chinatown Riverwalk
Revitalization and Downtown Con-nectivity
planning study to improve the
Nuuanu Stream corridor in the vicinity of
Chinatown.
The planning study seeks to connect
the green spaces and cultural remnants
by developing sustainable activities that
attract residents and visitors to enjoy
this urban cultural stream corridor. The
Chinatown Nuuanu Stream corridor has
incredible potential to provide a rich vari-ety
of scenic, historic and cultural experi-ences
improving the economics, environ-ment
and the human quality of life. For
more information on the ASLA Hawaii
Chapter Honolulu Chinatown Riverwalk
Revitalization and Downtown Connectiv-ity
planning study visit the project website
at www.greenchinatown.org.
Do you picture a parkway along Nuua-nu
Stream with natural scenery, vibrant
streetscape, and a rich cultural experience
now?
Lorenda Lo is a landscape designer
and planner at AECOM Honolulu Office,
President of ASLA Hawaii Chapter, and the
project coordinator of Honolulu Chinatown
Riverwalk Revitalization and Downtown
Connectivity Study.

PESTICIDE
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especially under conditions of high tem-perature
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Dry formulations such as wettable
powders (WP), soluble powders (SP),
water-dispersible granules (WDG), and
granular (G) can become caked and com-pacted.
Emulsifiable concentrates (EC)
can lose their ability to form emulsions.
Some pesticides can actually become
characteristic odor. A strong odor in the
more toxic, flammable, or explosive as
storage area may indicate a leak, a spill, or
they break down.
an improperly sealed container.
Pesticide formulations that contain low
It may also be a clue that the pesticide is
concentrations of active ingredients gen-erally
deteriorating, because the smell of some
lose effectiveness faster than more
chemicals intensifies as they break down.
concentrated forms. Sometimes a liquid
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pesticide develops a gas as it deteriorates,
chemical
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be replaced, transfer the pesticide
to another container of the same
type, such as a polyethylene jug, a
thick paper bag, or a brown glass
bottle. With plastic jugs, try to
find a jug made of the same type
of plastic. You can at least get a jug
from the same group of plastics by
checking the recycling number on the
bottom of the jug and using a replace-ment
jug with the same number. Obtain
a replacement label from your pesticide
dealer to put on the new container.
If stored in a cool, dry area that is out
of direct sunlight, pesticides will generally
have an extended shelf life. Protection
from temperature extremes is impor-tant
because heat or cold can shorten
a pesticide’s shelf life. At temperatures
below freezing, some liquid formulations
separate into their various components
and lose their effectiveness. High temper-atures
cause many pesticides to volatize
or break down more rapidly. Extreme
heat may also cause glass bottles to break
or explode.
One way to ensure that you avoid
problems with shelf life or storage is to
only buy what is needed for one season.
Buying more pesticide
than is
necessary
because of reduced case lot
prices or a sale may become more
expensive in the long run, when it comes
to disposing of excess pesticide.
Before storing chemicals, read the label
and follow any specific guidelines listed.
Store different groups of pesticides, such
as herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides,
in separate locations in the storage area.
This will help prevent cross-contamina-tion
from fumes and vapors as well as
accidental use of the wrong type of pesti-cide.
Never store chemicals near any type
of animal feed. Always store chemicals
out of the reach of children, preferably in
a locked cabinet or room in which only
pesticides are stored. Store personal pro-tective
equipment, such as gloves, goggles,
aprons, and respirators, in another clean,
dry location away from pesticide fumes.
Note: This article by Martha Smith and
Phil Nixon
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Pesticide Review and is presented
without editing. It is available at
http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/ipr/
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newsletter and is reprinted with permission
from the Pesticide Safety Education Pro-gram,
College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources, University of Hawaii at
Manoa. If you would like to receive notice
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even threaten its structural integrity.
Your choices in dealing with shooters in-clude
pruning them back to restore original
balance, pruning to center around a shooter,
or removing a particularly promising shooter
to root it as a new venture of its own. There’s
no right or wrong. It’s just a choice. But
whatever direction you pursue, your goal
should be to create logical and well-balanced
trunk structures that will withstand the test
of time.
2. Consider The Deadwood
Removing deadwood is a commonly used
metaphor in business. It’s simple. Cut off
the parts that aren’t generating revenue and
you’ll have a more profitable business.
But before you start lopping off business
parts, consider that like bonsai, the historical
or aesthetic value of deadwood might make
it worth keeping. Hawaiian Airlines for ex-ample
maintains a tiny hangar at Honolulu
Airport as a reminder of its quaint begin-nings.
It’s not operationally productive, but
it pays huge dividends through reminding
us of Hawaiian’s rich history. You too may
find benefit in keeping “deadwood” to create
brand preference or preserve your company
story.
When in doubt, consult a business arbor-ist.
A variety of business and marketing
consultants are always available to help you
with objective perspective and expert advice
on how to handle or get the most out of your
deadwood.
3. Invigorate Your Rootstock
If your business is wilting, consider unrav-eling
and repotting your Mission Statement.
You can do this yourself by focusing on two
simple questions: what makes your offer-ing
special and what tactics do you need to
employ to maintain that uniqueness. If your
staff isn’t fully connected to these feeder
roots, you’re productive capacity simply
isn’t optimized.
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conomy got you down? If
so, it may be time to bonsai
your
business. Think back to
the Karate Kid scene where
Mr. Miyagi hands a pair of
pruning shears to a frustrated
Daniel-San and says, “Relax.
Focus. Cut. Just-o cut, Daniel-San.” So make
like Daniel-San. Even if you’ve never done
it before, try to focus on what’s amiss or
unnatural about your business. As you get
reacquainted with the beauty of your busi-ness’
core essence and structure, you’ll gain
perspective and wisdom. Here’s a few tips to
better business bonsai:
1. Prune the Shooters
Like plants, businesses grow shooters as
rouge ideas spring up. Bougainvilleas and
.com ventures are notorious for growing
multitudes of shooters. And while shooters
may represent amaz-ing
growth op-portunities,
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focus on these concepts is the key to remain-ing
audience-centric and building legacy.
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normally include do-it-yourself Mission and
Vision planners. You can also alternatively
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clarify the parts. For a fun and interactive
business-building exercise, try the free Story-
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UPDATE ERYTHRINA GALL WASP
BY JULIANA YALEMAR RENATO BAUTISTA
everal species of Ery-thrina
suffered severe
damage when the Ery-thrina
Gall Wasp (EGW)
was
accidentally intro-duced
into the Hawaiian
Islands in April 2005. Within six months,
the wasp spread to all the major islands
throughout the state. The onslaught
that resulted from the wasp infestation
defoliated and came close to eliminating
erythrina trees throughout the state.
The gall wasp infests several species of
Erythrina, which includes E. variegata, E.
sandwicensis and E. crista-galli. E. varie-gata,
used primarily for landscaping and
windbreaks, lost over 90% of its popula-tion
to the gall wasp infestation. E. sand-wicensis,
a native erythrina species, com-monly
known as ‘wiliwili’, was severely
damaged with more than 40 percent tree
mortality recorded in some areas.
The erythrina gall wasp is about 1 to 1.5
mm in length. A gravid wasp lays its eggs
by inserting them into the young tissues
of the plant. The immatures develop
within the tissues thus, resulting in the
swelling and formation of galls on young
shoots and twigs. Subsequently, the tree
loses its vigor, becomes defoliated then
succumbs to the wasp invasion.
Researchers, agricultural workers,
landscapers, and other stakeholders em-ployed
by various pest control tactics, but
these proved unsuccessful. Consequently,
the Hawaii Department of Agriculture
(HDOA) deemed that biological control
could be the long-term solution to the
unprecedented onslaught of the erythrina
trees by the wasp pest.
In 2006, Eurytoma erythrinae a natural
enemy of the erythrina gall wasp was col-lected
in Tanzania, East Africa. It is an ec-toparasitoid
that attacks the gall-forming
wasp by feeding on its immatures that
are enclosed within the galls of infested
trees. In the process, the parasitoid lar-vae
not only kill the pest but make use of
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them as breeding hosts from which a new
generation of the parasitoid progeny is
eventually produced. Raised and colo-nized
at the HDOA Insect Containment
facility, the parasitoid was determined
to be highly specific to the gall wasp pest
and does not pose a potential threat to
the natural habitat. Subsequently, the
parasitoid was introduced in Hawaii in
November 2008.
To date, the parasitoid has already
been successfully established in the pest
habitat. Moreover, the introduced natural
enemy has been recorded to have caused
gall wasp pest mortality as high as 90%.
Consequently, trees have commenced
to bounce back with lush, robust green
foliage and much reduced galling. In ad-dition,
trees commenced to flower and
pod-bearing seeds are produced once
again. Although E. sandwicensis and E.
crista galli appeared to have recovered
quite well, E. variegata, the most sus-ceptible
among the erythrinas, may take
sometime to reap some benefits from the
introduced natural enemy. Nevertheless,
HDOA will continue its effort to search
for other promising biological control
agents as the State’s fight against the inva-sive
gall-forming pest continues.
Renato Bautista is a supervisory en-tomologist
at the Hawaii Department of
Agriculture, Plant Pest Control Branch.
Juliana Yalemar is the Entomologist
Project Leader of the Gall Wasp Biological
Control Project at the Hawaii Department
of Agriculture, Plant Pest Control Branch.
Renato Bautista is the Insectary Supervi-sor
Coordinator of the Gall Wasp Biologi-cal
Control Project at the Hawaii Depart-ment
of Agriculture, Plant Pest Control
Branch.
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WHAT KINE HAWAIIAN YOU? y
Beautiful, endemic groundcover, common
but yet lacks any known Hawaiian name
Carex wahuensis
Endemic
Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui, Moloka‘i, Lana‘i,
Hawai‘i
Description: Graceful sedges that
form thick clumps and reach heights close
to two feet tall, however, the long leaf
blades droop downward and can actually
reach lengths up to four feet long. These
blades are about a half inch across at the
base and gradually reduce to a narrow
elongated apex. Tiny flowers emerge on
the upper portion of long stalks called
spikes. Once pollinated, the flowers be-come
small seeds called achenes and can
range in color from light brown to bright
orange. Really attractive when contrasted
against the dark green coloration of the
surrounding foliage.
Distribution: The natural range
of this endemic species is very diverse.
I’ve seen them growing in the lowland
dry-forest areas and upward into mesic
and rain forests, from near the coast to
elevations exceeding 3000 ft. Easy to find,
Carex wahuensis can be seen growing
on ridge lines in full sun or on slopes in
the shadier under story in both relatively
pristine and well disturbed surroundings.
They exist on all the main islands except
Kaho’olawe and Ni‘ihau although they
may have been found there in the past.
Cultural and Other Uses: The long
slender leaf blades and seed clusters can
be used to accentuate leis and can be used
in flower arrangements.
Landscape Use and Care: I love the
way Carex wahuensis looks in landscapes.
They can be used either as accents around
larger landscaping stones and at base
of taller plants or as border plantings to
define walkways and edges, similar to a
low hedge. Their fine, fibrous roots are
great for controlling erosion and can
be planted as a mass groundcover even
on steep slopes. These plants are highly
versatile and can handle moderate to
little watering as well as full sun to partial
shade, they also standup well in areas of
high winds. In fact they look really cool
if placed in high “wind tunnel” like areas,
their long leaf blades enable them to
dance and flutter with the wind. You can
even use Carex wahuensis as an indoor
plant or as part of a “Living Wall” system.
Extra Info: Although there is no
known Hawaiian name for this plant that
is not to say that it never had one, most
likely it was lost over the years. As com-mon
and beautiful as this plant is it would
be hard to believe that Hawaiians didn’t
recognize and name it themselves.
Rick Barboza is a native plant specialist
and co owner of a native plant nursery, Hui
Ku Maoli Ola and a member of the LICH
board of directors.
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bowl; finally a cough, but
then it dies. Or the engine
starts, but when you put
it under load, there is a
horrible grinding noise from under
the machine. You quickly shut the
machine down before something
comes flying off in your direction.
Now comes your part, Boss.
Where’s the parts breakdown?
What’s the model number of
the machine? What was last TOOLS
NOW
REPAIR
OR REPLACE?
n our last issue, the boss got a
call from the operator that the
machine broke. Boss asked some
key questions and he now has an
idea
of what the problem is –NOW
WHAT? It’s on you boss.
After verifying that all the obvious
things checkout, you need a closer
look, and you establish that the
machine needs to go back to
the shop so you can “zero
in” on locating the problem.
NEXT! Looking over the
machine, there are no leak-ing
fluids; no visible external
damage; all safety switches
are engaged, so it should start,
but it doesn’t. Where do you
go from here, boss? Pull the
plug; remove the air cleaner;
manually prime the car-buretor;
drain the float
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done to it? Do you have a repair history
either on paper, on computer or in your
head? Is this a recurring problem with
this machine? Is the problem inherent in
the design, or are we trying
to make the machine
do something that
it wasn’t designed
to do. Is the op-erator
being
negligent?
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Armed with your parts breakdown, you
start tracing the problem until you have
identified what parts need to be replaced,
or what needs to be corrected. What will
it cost? Ok, boss, now what—REPAIR OR
REPLACE THE UNIT! More decisions,
means more questions. How much have
I spent on parts for this machine over the
last 6 months? Was it the same parts, or
for the same area of the machine? Were
the parts available? How essential is this
machine? How much did this machine
cost new. These are all key questions
when making your decision to repair or
replace.
Other factors to be considered may
be: how your budget is set-up; will your
budget allow for another equipment pur-chase.
Who
is the
decision-maker
and
what is your
relationship
with this person.
How much will the
“down-time” cost?
Examine your options.
What’s your recommen-dation,
boss—repair or
replace.
WHAT SHOULD I
BUY?
Should you decide to replace a
piece of equipment, here are some
things you should keep in mind.
1. Identify what you liked about the
old machine, and see if these features
are available on the new models.
Manufacturers make changes in models:
in materials used, in safety features, in en-gine
options, in accessories. If your “old”
machine is more than five years old there
will most certainly be a new designed
engine, which is EPA third tier compliant.
Changes in carburetor design and muffler
design, will probably mean that the new
engine will run differently than your old
engine.
2. How available are parts for the new
machine. Changes by manufacturers in
the distribution of equipment and parts
can create lag time in repairs. Unfortu-nately,
there is no way of predicting if
and when this
will happen, so
o
it is always wise
e
to have two or
three back-up
sources for
parts. You may
have to use
the alternative
sources more
often than you
expect.
3. Always
read your
operator’s
manual. While
the new machine may look simi-lar
to your “old” machine changes may
have been made in the operation of the
machine.
4. Be sure a parts breakdown
is available either on-line or in
hard copy. Should you have ques-tions
or concerns about your new
machine you will have it at your disposal
for ordering parts or checking out what
may be a potential problem.
5. Develop a work-ing
relationship with
your sales person.
Over the past five
years the equipment,
parts, and accessories
market has become
very competitive. Every
sales person wants your
business, but the ques-tion
is are they willing
to go the extra mile
to provide you with
the service. Are they
willing to discuss your op-tions
rather than just selling you
THEIR product line. Are they available
when YOU need their help? Asking for
good customer service makes us all better
at what we do.
Again, any comments or questions are
welcome. See you next month.
Phyllis Jones is the owner of A to Z Equip-ment
and Sales in Kaneohe, formally A to Z
Rental Center, in business for over 25 years.
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EFFICIENT
IRRIGATION: BY RICHARD QUINN
eadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED)
was developed by the US
Green Building Council
(USGBC) in 2000 and
provides a framework
for sustainable building
and development practices through a
rating system. Being involved in a LEED
certified project is becoming a more
common occurrence in Hawaii in the last
few years, particularly when dealing with
military or other government projects.
Achieving specific sustainable measures,
including water conservation, provides
credits towards LEED certification, which
includes “Certified”, “Silver”, “Gold”, and
“Platinum” levels of achievement. Most
new government projects in Hawaii are
requiring a minimum LEED certification
level of Silver.
Irrigation designers and contractors in
Hawaii should become familiar with the
concepts and implementation strategies
for LEED certified projects. Even if the
project you’re working on is not going for
LEED certification, many of the LEED
standards can be useful benchmarks
of sustainability for landscaping and
the vocabulary of LEED certification is
becoming a part of the vernacular of the
construction industry. The use of intel-ligent
irrigation technology, using native
and less thirsty plant materials, reducing
use of turf grass, using rainwater catch-ment,
permeable paving, bio-swale reten-tion,
and restoration or preservation of
native habitat and plant communities are
all water related strategies that can apply
to the LEED rating system.
A general goal of LEED would be to
reduce potable water consumption for
landscaping by half. An ultimate goal of
LEED would be to eliminate all potable
water use by landscaping. A minimum
prerequisite for LEED certification is a
20% reduction in interior building water
use, with additional points available for
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Chris Dacus is a Landscape Architect and
Arborist for the State of Hawaii Department
of Transportation and the President
of LICH.
There is a general demand for a reduc-tion
in water usage across the nation.
LEED is not so much a driver of this
initiative as it is a symptom of it. Allan
Schildknecht of Irrigation Hawaii reports
that about 10 to 15% of his projects in
Hawaii are going for LEED certification,
but much more of his work is affected by
industry driven sustainable water conser-vation
strategies. “The goal of sustainabil-ity
should be to improve the efficiency in
how we use our water resources for irriga-tion”
according to Allan. “Programs such
as Water Sense and ASLA’’’ASLA’s s Sustainability
encourages improving the efficiency effiffifficiency of ir-rigation
while LEED strategies encourage
the reduction of potable water use or even
no irrigation at all”. Regardless of LEED
certification, the irrigation industry is tak-ing
the lead in water conservation efforts,
particularly with irrigation effifficiency.
Richard Quinn, ASLA, LEED AP is a
landscape architect at Helber Hastert Fee
Planners, Inc. and on the Board of Directors.
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exceeding the 20% reduction. This can
affect landscape irrigation strategies by
driving the use of rainwater catchment,
wastewater treatment, or the use of other
non-potable water sources.
Here are some of the specifific specific ways to
achieve LEED points relating to landscape
water conservation (LEED 2009 for New
Construction):
Q Water Efficient Landscaping:
• Reduce irrigation by 50% (from a
calculated mid-summer baseline
case): 2 points
• No Potable Water Use or No
Irrigation: 4 points (plus a possible
regional bonus point)
Q Innovative wastewater technologies;
this has the potential to provide treated
waste water for irrigation: 1 to 2 points
Q Stormwater design – reduce
stormwater runoff and increase natural
infiltration; Potential for rainwater catch-ment,
permeable paving, or bio-swales to
supplement irrigation needs and amplify
rainwater in landscapes: 1 to 2 points
Q Use of Regional Materials and Re-cycled
Content, 10% or 20% of total build-ing
materials; Although not substantial
and difficult to access, landscape and irri-gation
materials with recycled content or
locally produced (difficult in Hawaii) can
help towards this credit: up to 4 points
The minimum points needed for
basic LEED certification of a project is
40 points (50 points for LEED Silver), of
which landscape irrigation strategies and
storm water management can play a sig-nificant
part. Energy conservation, indoor
environmental quality, and using “green”
building materials and resources are other
sources of points towards LEED certi-fication.
Exemplary or innovative per-formance
beyond the basic LEED point
levels can also help achieve additional
points. Achieving LEED certification can
add to the up-front costs to a project, but
the long-term benefits can be substantial.

PLANT THEFT
ROBS US ALL
32 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2011 orking from sunup to sun-down,
counting every penny,
just barely economically making
it in this business environment…
the life of a nursery owner or
grower is not easy. The trade off is
ending the day with new growth, happy custom-ers,
and a tangible product created by hard work
and perseverance. Landscapers delight in creat-ing
picture perfect gardens, carefully consider-ing
every botanical selection while balancing
budget limitations and homeowner
expectations. Certain disappoint-ments
can be planned for…insects,
drought, market ebb and flow.
Now landscapers, homeown-ers,
nursery owners and
farmers have another
blight to consider…plant
theft.
Plant theft has
robbed small business
of their profit mar-gins.
It nudges prices
higher and higher, to
the point where certain
ornamentals such as the
raphis and red ceiling wax
palms are not affordable for
small landscaping jobs. The
devastating consequences of
this crime not only hurt all of us,
but rob our community from the
unique tropical beauty Hawaii is so
famous for.
Not only the nurseries and farm-ers
have been victimized by plant
thieves. Individual homeowners
testified at a recent hearing on
Plant Theft Legislation that
they had spent thousands
of dollars on trees, flowers
and plants, not to mention
the cost, time and effort
required to maintain their
yard, only to have many
of them stolen. Condo-minium
associations
have cited numerous
losses and have
been forced to in-stall
costly barriers
and fences. It is
unfortunate that
fences have to be
erected to protect
expensive land-scaping
when our
‘aina is renowned
for the lush green
plants which grow
throughout our neigh-borhoods.
The Hawaii Board of
Agriculture reported that losses
associated with agricultural
theft and vandalism have
totaled millions of dollars in
our state. Theft and vandal-ism
of papaya fields on Oahu
and the Big Island resulted
in huge financial losses to
the farmers and handicapped fu-ture
production. The Waimanalo
Agricultural Association is also
in strong support of stron-ger
laws, noting that the
farmers in Waimanalo
have had to deal with
theft for a number of
years. Early this May,
plant thieves hit Waiakea
High School on the Big Is-land,
cutting down five 20-year-old native
kou trees. Cost of the trees was estimated to
be about $4,500 because the valuable wood
is used to make bracelets, bowls and canoe
paddles.
In committee testimony this session, the
Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation wrote, “Ev-eryone
knows farming is inherently risky.
There are no guarantees of a successful crop.
Besides being vulnerable to invasive pests
and diseases, erratic weather patterns, and
multiyear droughts, high land, labor, fuel, and
other farm costs leave us unable to compete
with mainland prices. On top of this, farmers
are highly susceptible to theft. Our location and

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relatively large acreage, usually in more
remote areas and impossible to guard 24
hours a day, leave us open to thieves that
reap the benefit of our hard work or van-dals
that destroy our crops for kicks.”
Because plant theft continues to es-calate
exponentially, I introduced, HB12
(Relating to Plant Theft) this Session,
which later was combined with another
bill, HB1524. This bill established that,
in addition to any criminal penalties, a
person convicted of plant theft would be
required to make payment to the prop-erty
owner for the value of the stolen
agricultural products as well as the cost of
replanting the product or commodity.
The community strongly supported
HB1524, and testimony was provided by
individuals who have had private yards
vandalized and stripped, as well as nurser-ies
owners and farmers who not only
have had valuable plants stolen, but have
had to pay employees to reestablish their
stock. Although the bill passed unani-mously
through the House, it was not
heard in the Senate. Hopefully the Senate
will hear it next year, and this important
bill will become law.
Unfortunately, as long as thieves are
able to profit from the sale of stolen
plants, theft and vandalism will flourish.
It is important that elected officials un-derstand
the extent of this problem and
that strict laws with hard consequences
are passed next legislative session. I would
encourage you all to write, visit and call
your State Representatives and Senators
asking that HB1524 be passed next year.
In the meantime, report any suspicious
activity immediately by calling 911. Theft
is a criminal offense which hopefully will
be stopped next session through HB1524
which includes restitution to the victims.
Plant theft does rob ALL of us!
Representative Cynthia Thielen is the
Assistant Minority Leader of the Hawaii
State House Of Representatives represent-ing
the 50th District of Kailua/Kaneohe
Bay and Ranking Member on the Judiciary,
the Energy and Environmental Protection
and the Water, Land and Hawaiian Affairs
Committees and serves on the Committees
for Housing and Consumer Protection and
Commerce.
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LIGHTNING
INJURY
See Lightning on page 41
featured
DISORDER
b y C h r i s t y M a r t i n
e’ve heard the news
headlines – 13,000
lightning strikes,
21,000 lightning
strikes, tens of thou-sands
of lightning strikes.
Yes, Hawaii has had un-usual
weather this year and it’s not just
the telescope at Mauna Kea that’s been
hit. Our landscapes have suffered as well.
If you have tall plants in the landscape
that looked fine a couple of months ago
but are in severe decline or dead now,
consider lightning as a possible culprit.
The following summarizes what to look
for:
Q Affects: Any plant, particularly
tall-standing, erect plants like trees and
palms
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21,0
strike
sands o
Photos: Garrett Webb
LEFT TO RIGHT: Note orange spots and ooze going white; Burnt leaf base at
crown.

CERTIFICATION MATTERS
36 LANDSCAPE HAWAII AUGUST | SEPTEMBER 2011 LAST NAME FIRST NAME COMPANY OF RECORD
Big Island CLTs
Agoot Sotero Tooga Inc.
Agtarap Jerry Shell Management Hawaii
Aller Rodney Kalaoa Gardens LLC
Anderson Leland Hapuna Beach Hotel Grounds
Arakaki Ronson Kukuiula Dev
Au Keone Island Greenscapes
Baquiring Makana Self Employed
Becker Danny Self Employed
Belanio Jeffrey W. Pua Mau Garden
Benabese Jose Hualalai Development Corp.
Billaber Jr. Anthony Hawaii Land Care
Breed Steve Self Employed
Brigoli Richard Hawaii Land Care
Broderson Adam Broderson Landscape Co.
Brotman Susan Rose Pink Gardeners
Caverly Shalom Self Employed
Chong Alston Al’s Yard Service
Clements David Hawaii Land Care
Cothran Nanette Silver Dragon Landscape
Davis Tim
De Farias Jr. Antonio
Decker Alex Leeward Landscaping
DeLoach Ashley Pro Lawn and Landscaping
Dorer Donald D D Maintenance
Duff Diana Yard Works
Duguran Syrus Hawaii Land Care
East Mark
Eckhardt Eric Kau Bamboo
Ford Paul Castles to Condos Landscape
Franck Dan Dan Franck Services
Fujino Gordon Pua Kala Nursery
Fukumitsu Elmer Hawaii Land Care
Givens Mike Kalaoa Gardens LLC
Grace Shannon Hawaii Land Care
Grap Daylan N. HI Community Hospital
Guyod Andre Tropical Creations
Hanato Joey Hawaii Land Care
Hancock Richard Rich’s Landscaping
Haskins Mike S M, Inc.
Henry Michele Greenscape
Hidaro Wayne Hualalai Resort
Hill Jordan Kona Hillscapes LLC
Hooke Nathan Self Employed
Hooper Alton Hualalai Resort
Jarvis Jim Self Employed Kailua-Kona
Kealoha Keone Hualalai Resort
Kelekolio Juliana Hawaii Land Care
Kennedy Alan North Hawaii Community Hosp.
Kocher J.C. Self Employed Keaau
BY JAY DEPUTY
LAST NAME FIRST NAME COMPANY OF RECORD
Kodani Kainoa Haiku Landscape Corp.
Kuailani Francis Outrigger Resorts Kanaloa at Kona
Landes Hugh D Landes Home Services LLC
Lee, CLT Erin Hualalai Resort
Lindsey Keoki Hualalai Resort
Lorenzo Jerry Robin Hualalai Resort
MacInnes Sarah Self Employed Kailua-Kona
McGuire Anja Hualalai Resort
Mitchell Coogan Hawaii Land Care
Moring Bruce Kona Village Resort
Naihe Rogers Maikai Landscaping LLC
Nelson Joel Resort Management Group
Oaks Barry Hualalai Resort
Ochmann Ronnie Hualalai Resort
Palea Mel Hualalai Resort
Paulson Vic Aloha Aina Landscape Sevices
Peterson Calvin Hualalai Resort
Pond Carl Hawaii Land Care
Pond Ryan Hawaii Land Care
Rasmussen Travis Ahupuna Maintenance LLC
Roback Luke Hualalai Resort
Robitaille Adriel Self Employed Kapaau
Rogers David Akamai Gardeners
Rosati Vito Hawaii Land Care
Santiago Jimi Shell Management Hawaii
Sato Lonn Hualalai Resort
Sayers Mark RM Landscape Irrigation
Schroder Sakai Lora Bezona Botanical
Shimada Wess M. Hualalai Resort
Sites Nicholas Endless Summaer Home Garden
Tanaka Debbie Hualalai Gardeners
Tiffany Robert Hualalai Resort
Underwood Trunald Hawaii Land Care
Wallestad Gary
Wolfe Peter Triple K Landscape, LLC
Wolske Lee Hualalai Resort
Yokoyama George Hualalai Resort
Kauai CLTs
Aaron Alexander
Asuncion Tim Tim’s Landscape Maintenance
Bargamento Ken Kauai Hydroseed Landscape
Borgatti Larry Alakai Landscaping
Brannock Eric Kauai Nursery Landscape, Inc.
Cardenas Cindy Kauai Nursery Landscaping, Inc.
Cardinez Steven Kauai Coast Resort
Chaffee Mark National Tropical Botanical Garden
De Costa Damien D K Irrigation Services
Delos Santos Wayne Self-Employed
Gonzalez Jaime Kauai Nursery Landscaping Inc.
Melissa Murer Corrigan, President of the
Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE)
states “Professional credentials provide
employers and employees with recogni-tion
for the time and training undertaken
to develop expertise within a specific field.
Certification positively impacts company
profitability and provides employees with
nationally portable credentials that set them
apart when seeking a new job or advancing
within their current organization.”
When selecting a professional landscape
contractor, look for those companies and
individual CLTs who have proven their
competence through certification. This
gives you confidence that your job will be
completed with a commitment to a higher
standard of knowledge and execution.
The following is a list of all Landscape
Industry Certified landscape professionals
(CLTs) in Hawaii.

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