Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens

Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens in Kailua-Kona is a small nonprofit garden on the Kona Educational Foundation Center grounds that grew from Sadie Seymour’s efforts to beautify the Kona community and was later designed by her son, landscape architect Scott Seymour, in her honor. Its cultivated plants of Hawaiʻi and other Pacific and tropical regions are arranged in 11 tiers by geographic origin, from native Hawaiian species to plants associated with Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Indo-Asia, Africa, and Central America. The site also preserves Kealakowaʻa Heiau, a ceremonial canoe-related heiau along the ancient Holua Loa trail, giving the grounds both botanical and sacred historical significance.

Holualoa, Hawaii · United States