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There's an area out by the back door that's had many different kinds of plants in it. My mother had some planters there, but by the time I got the house they were completely overgrown and I had no idea what was in them. Then the area was an herb garden, but that didn't work. Then I transplanted a huge lilikoi from another part of the yard, and that took hold but also took over the entire area, so I gave it away (it lives now in Puna). Then it was just weeds. Then a coffee tree went in. More weeds.

 

Finally I cleaned it all up and planted blueberries and a poha. I didn't think that the poha had taken properly, but finally it got itself going and is now making poha for us to eat.

 

I went out there this morning to see what I could find, and noticed this one particularly vivid poha. So that's what you get today.

 

Oh, what's poha? It's elsewhere known as the Cape Gooseberry, and has been in Hawai'i since 1825. See here.