The Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens invite you to Foster Botanic Garden tomorrow for free holiday plant fun.

The garden — a special sea of green amidst the high-rises — is a gift to all of us from Mary Mikahala Robinson Foster.

And in this gift you'll find more gifts for the holiday season. Some of the treats you'll find: wreaths, herb baskets, chocolates, cookies, pineapple-macadamia Happy Cakes, jams and jellies, local organic honey, cut flowers, vanilla products, lavender sachets and eye pads, organic soaps and lotions, gift baskets, handcrafted jewelry, pottery, botanical prints, Ni'ihau shell lei, ribbon lei, fimo clay jewelry and hair flowers, Nutcracker Sweet T-shirts and much more.

Healthy plants such as kalo and cacao grow in the garden, and it has always been a place of botanical healing. Some of the same medicinal plants and historic trees grow at The Queen's Medical Center. Guest speaker Dr. Terry Shintani, famous for the Waianae Diet, will talk about "The Native Diet."

If you're looking for garden and plant advice, O'ahu master gardeners will be on hand to answer questions. Back again will be Michael Conway, manager of coffee and cacao operations for Dole Food Co. Hawai'i, along with a cacao plant — the source of chocolate. Conway was a big hit at last year's chocolate festival.

This year's horticultural demonstrations and displays include shonin bonsai Louis Martin on how to make a rock bonsai; sensei Yurohoku and Jane N. Yamashiroya also on bonsai; how to make hala lei with kupuna Roy Benham, coconut weaving by Nani Stanley, and pahu drum making with Buddy Makaiau.

The silent auction will have some fine specimens for your garden: A Vietnamese Tet tree, colorful Hawaiian ko (sugar cane) varieties, a maire fern from Tahiti and two kinds of Boston ferns.

Music is a tradition in Foster Botanic Garden and at this event you can enjoy live entertainment from guitarists Michael Tanenbaum and Steve Inglis, and 'Iolani School's jazz band. Dance is also on the schedule in the form of Michael and James Dela Cruz's Na 'Opio 'O Ko'olau hula halau; and modern dance, ballet and hula by 'Iolani School students.

We like to eat in the garden, too, and food booths will feature organic burgers and sausages from North Shore Cattle Company, Vietnamese food from Cool Chameleon, Corner Café's Filipino noodles, and Country Comfort Catering's lemon bars and chocolates. Sounds 'ono, no?