What flowers will be blooming in Kauai in March?

March 16, 2008 2:40 PM

What flowers will be blooming in Kauai in March?

My wife and I are going to Kauai from 3-18 to 3-27, and we've never been before. We were wondering what fruit and flowers will be ripe / blooming while we're there. For instance, I heard that mango season is from March through October there. Is it possible we'll get ripe mangos while we're there? That'd be awesome.

posted by molybdenum to Travel & Transportation around Kauai, HI (5 answers total)

My Kauaian son says that seasons are weakly marked, and plants do pretty much what they feel like when they feel like it. Something is always ripening or blooming. But he isn't an observant naturalist.

However, chickens are always in season.
posted by hexatron at 4:27 PM on March 16, 2008

There is contact information on this page of the McBryde Garden, a tropical botanical garden on the island of Kauai. They could tell you, and it looks like a beautiful place to visit.

This page lists several other botanical gardens on Kauai.
posted by extrabox at 5:56 PM on March 16, 2008

We went in February a while back and had fresh Mangoes, so they'll probably have them in March.

A few of the Plumeria were blooming, I'm not sure what else.
posted by mmoncur at 7:29 PM on March 16, 2008

I went there (and visited gardens) just this past January and everything was blooming. There aren't really seasons there (it was sunny and summer-like temps the whole time)
posted by mathowie at 10:02 PM on March 16, 2008

Response by poster: Thanks everyone for the replies! Sounds like March shouldn't be that bad, flora-wise.
posted by molybdenum at 10:02 PM on March 17, 2008