Na ʻĀina Kai Botanical Gardens


Na Āina Kai Botanical Gardens are nonprofit botanical gardens located at 4101 Wailapa Road, Kīlauea, Kauai, Hawaii. A variety of guided tours are offered Tuesday through Friday; an admission fee is charged for each.
Na Āina Kai was established by Joyce and Ed Doty in 1982. In 1999, it became a nonprofit organization and opened to the public. Today it contains 13 gardens, a hardwood plantation, meadow, canyon, and beach. More than 200 bronze sculptures are sited throughout the estate. Highlights of the Gardens include:
Special displays have been created representing the lives of three Indigenous American peoples:
The hardwood plantation contains African Mahogany, Big-leaf Mahogany, Blue Mahoe, Caribbean Pitch Pine, Cocobolo, Indian Blackwood, Indian Rosewood, Iroko, Lignum Vitae, West Indian Mahogany, Moreton Bay Chestnut, Narra, Palu, Pheasant Wood, Queensland Maple, Teak, West Indian Cedar, and Zebra Wood