Q: What do you do on 4th of July weekend?
A: Buy orchids!
SHORT VERSION:
1) reasonable prices, sale table had $10 Phalaenopsis orchids; regular priced were $20, which were larger specimens. These were advertised on their Facebook page.
2) they take credit or cash (I am not sure about Discover or AMEX)
3) they sell other things such as Cobra Ferns
4) they are the vendors who supply the mini orchids to Sam's Club and Costco. Mini orchids were $15 at their nursery. I paid about $19 retail at Sam's for their mini-orchids.
5) Very nice, large vandas for sale, ranging from $20 to $85 and up.
6) if it rains, you'll get wet in the greenhouse. Q: When does Waianae ever rain? A: When I'm orchid shopping on a 4th of July weekend! Yep, got wet.
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LONG VERSION:
S&W's Facebook page advertised an orchid sale on 4th of July weekend, with $10 orchids - a deal too good to pass up! My friend was the one who had alerted me to this sale and gave me the wrong address, so I ended up on a very scary, one way road that I had to reverse out of, praying that the chain link fence on one side and the parked cars on the other side didn't scratch up my car paint. I didn't think I was in the right place because there were A) super scary looking people staring at me at the end of the driveway, and B) it did not look like a nursery. One guy walked past my car and gave me a piercing look through bloodshot eyes and I was scared. I was even more scared to reverse down the long driveway and had to pull back in because a car behind me was coming in. I vowed to never ask my friend for directions again. He had reversed the "2" and the "4" in the address, which I plugged into WAZE.
After that unpleasant encounter, I managed to find the correct address. This farm is across from a sod farm and there are signs. You pull into a dirt/gravel parking lot and go to town with your orchid shopping! It was a pretty large orchid nursery with a sea of Phals as far as the eye could see. Their sale $10 Phal orchids were mostly whites, pinks, dark maroon with white border, white with purple splotches. I managed to get a few $10 orchids and some $15 minis and $20 regular-sized for myself.
I'm not sure if they always have the $10 sale, I'm thinking not. With Covid-19 derailing all orchid shows, maybe they needed to unload some of their stock. The phals were mostly small to medium sized, but all had single or double sprays of flowers, totally worth it!
I'd definitely go out there again if they host another sale! read more