Moir Gardens

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Moir Gardens
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Moir Gardens
Type botanical garden and cactus garden
Location Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii.
Coordinates 21°52′38″N159°27′39″W / 21.87722°N 159.46083°W / 21.87722; -159.46083
Created1954 (1954)
OpenYes
Website www.to-hawaii.com/kauai/gardens/moirgardens.php

The Moir Gardens (35 acres) are botanical gardens located within the Outrigger Kiahuna Plantation, 2253 Poipu Road, Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii. [1] Just to the east is Poipu Beach Park. The gardens are open daily without charge.

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History

The gardens were created in the 1930s by Alexandra Moir while her husband was manager of Hawaii's first sugarcane plantation, Koloa Plantation, near the site. [2] By 1948 the private gardens were reportedly identified as "one of the ten best cactus and succulent gardens in the world."[ citation needed ] The gardens opened to the public in 1954.

Collection

Today the garden contains rare cactus and succulents, bromeliads, orchids, mature trees, and water lily ponds.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Outrigger Kiahuna Plantation". web site.
  2. ↑ "Moir Gardens at Kiahuna plantation". web site. Retrieved February 6, 2010.


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