Lavender Farms

Half way up Haleakala, the volcano, is a beautiful place called Alii Lavender Farms.  It is nice and cool and gets a lot of rain.  They produce a huge amount of lavender and make goodies, drinks and body products with their lavender.  They also grow so many plants and flowers that are amazing.

This is one of their patches of lavender.  They grow five varieties here.

The colors on some of the flowers were so bright that our camera couldn't even capture it.  It's pretty amazing that something can be that color in nature.

This plant looks like snow to me.  I just love it!!

This is the kalo plant that is very special to Hawaii.  It fruits taro that makes poi, kulolo, and many other staples for the hawaiians back in the plantaions days.  It is a spiritual thing for them as well.