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We moved to Mililani when I was 14 years old and a couple of years after this Master Planned Community started building. It is almost finished now after 35 years of "growing" ....including the Mauka side of Mililani which is across the H-2 freeway.
We have 7 recreation centers (5 of which have pools) tennis/basketball courts, 3 shopping centers with a 14 plex theater and MANY shops and restaurants. We have it all here in Central Oahu!
Picture to the left is taken from Mililani Mauka on 6/30/2007 looking to the Waianae Mountain Range.
This past Saturday afternoon (6/30/2007) we went to pick up my 25 year old daughter and 26 year old son (who relocated back home Dec. and Aug. of last year) to go to a steakhouse for a late lunch. They are both staying at my mom's 4 bedroom home in Mililani so I took pictures because she has just so many colors in just her yard alone!
Her home is situated at the very end of a cul-de-sac and in back of her house is just a gulley. I remember back in the 70's as a teenager I had gone down the gulley to take a "mini hike" and there were so many other kinds of plants and foilage; including bamboo and guava trees and lilikoi (passion fruit)! To this day I have not gone back down there as I realized later on there were most likely scorpions, centipedes and mongoose running around down there!
This is my old neighborhood and up the street from mom's house.
Upon entering her gate we are greeted with these lovely purple flowers!
Back Yard- Bird of Paradise 
The Pink and Yellow Variety of Plumeria 
Back yard foilage with white flowers. "Shrimp" Flowers
Bouganvilia Red Roses
Right fence line and gully straight down! Left fence line and thick foilage 
This picture is going back out her gate. These palms were pruned about a year ago...and shooting straight up again! 20 ft. high and in middle of all this some rubber tree plants are going at it!
I tried to call mom to get the correct names of all the flower's but she wasn't home. In any case, I wanted to share with you all the beauty of mom's pride and joy...her garden and yard. When it comes to a green thumb...that my mom has!
Hope you enjoyed the pictures and a "tour" through mom's yard!
Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman is a Realtor-Associate® and Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) with Century 21 Liberty Homes in Mililani, Hawaii. With a sharp understanding that a listening ear is the key to a client's needs she serves the island of Oahu (Honolulu County) and all Hawaii Military Relocations, Hawaii Retirees, Hawaii Job Transfers and Hawaii Residents, Home Buyers and Sellers.
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Lisa: Well, let's see em! I love pictures of flowers!
Mathew: Mom's yard is 10k sq. ft. of PLANTS! Big ones, small ones, medium sized ones...all over the place. We take our "sick" potted plants to mom and the doctor gets them well again!
Neal: I'm still trying to see what those purple ones are...faint smell but 15 ft. high! My mom likes all kinds...i took a picture of some of her orchids but didn't come out. She also has a huge 40 ft. avocado tree and the same for her mango tree....huge...and planted in 1971.
Ha....my lucky type in the fruit is avocado
Okay Sally, that is enough! The beautiful green and the flowers? If you keep this up, I'll be moving to Hawaii - really far from my 16 grandchildren!!!
Carole: A pleasure to share some of my home and beauty with everyone.
Sarah: Come see!
Missy: My mom's yard. I have a little fenced in courtyard with my townhouse...mom has 10k on the land
Teri: Well, if not move...then visit!
Sally... okay, you have convinced me. After reading about 8 of your Hawaiian localism posts, I need to make a visit. Probably within the next year. Okay? ;o) Nice job on this one and thanks for sharing.
Sally,
awww.... Randy's comment, thats sweet.
You are sooo lucky, Mom's flowers are some of the prettiest flowers I have ever seen! :)
"cactus" I understand that one! :)
Thesa: Thanks Thesa...the pictures make me even think...wow...beautiful!
Marlene: Mmmmm....I did. :)
Mana: I thought...gee, sure doesn't look that nice when we go and work back there in her yard...haha.
Jeff: Okay...thanks. I guess the only way you'll see in real life is to make the trip.
Randy: I like the Mauka picture...looks so clear, clean and view of mountain range.
Suzanne: She has a huge one at the corner fence line. Randy is a nice guy.
Christina: Yeah, year round nice weather is hard on us...lol!
What is a ketembilla
Sally~
You always manage to amaze me. The photos, the sense of place, the special energy you bring to your posts light up my day. That's why I subscribe to your BLOG...Thank you.
Jeff: Look what Randy said. lol!
Randy: You're just a barrel of laughs this morning (or was this late last night?) Now that you say that though...it seems to rain a lot in my mom's back yard...lol!
Jeff: You're funny....I kept saying that all along...hey, I'm vain when it comes to some wrinkles...haha!
Nestor/Katerina: Yes I do...you can see above under rate this post and comments...
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