Hawaiian Rain Gardens for Five-0's Tough Branch That Does Not Break

Summary: Hawaiian rain gardens add a tough branch that does not break in the Kona gale for Five-0's Ka Lala Kaukonakona Haki 'Ole I Ka Pa A Ka Makani Kona May 11, 2018.

Oahu-based Hui o Ko'olaupoko (HOK) aims to protect ocean health and water quality through projects such as rain gardens: Jill N. Tokuda @jilltokuda via Twitter Aug. 21, 2014

Five-0's Ka Lala Kaukonakona Haki 'Ole I Ka Pa A Ka Makani Kona: The Tough Branch That Does Not Break in the Kona Gale May 11, 2018, figuratively accommodates Hawaiian rain gardens.

Director Krishna Rao and writers Alex O'Loughlin and Zoe Robyn broach an 'ōlelo a'o (advice) about American military-abducting Nigerians and art-stealing Nazis Season 8's 24th episode. The series' 192nd episode overall coordinates Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) and Officer Junior Reigns (Beulah Koale) conducting unbroken Joe White (Terry O'Quinn) back home. Gerard Hirsch (Willie Garson), unbreakable detective of Kurt Wagner (Tatum Shank) as wife-killing grandson of Nazi thieves, and Kamekona Tupuola (Taylor Wily) disentangle illegally diverted art.

Captain Lou Grover (Chi McBride) and Tani Rey (Meaghan Rath) exhibit equivalent equanimity in effecting job swaps with crime-solving Gerard and Kamekona at crime scene clean-ups.

Fitting Hawaiian rain gardens onto Grover, McGarrett and Rey lawns furnishes tough-branched trees against the gustiest rain storms through fluid Hawaii Five-0 Task Force work flows.

The Hui o Ko'olaupoko downloadable or purchasable Hawai'i Residential Rain Garden Manual gets Hawaiian rain gardens going by one or all Hawaii Five-0 Task Force members. The 36-page publication by Executive Director Todd Ellison of Hui o Ko'olaupoko, organization for ground and watershed restoration, has mapping, measuring, siting, sizing and stocking inputs. Downspout and driveway rainfall infiltrate within 30 hours, at 0.25-plus-inch (0.64-pus-centimeter) hourly rates, Hawaiian rain gardens at 4- to 10-foot (1.22- and 3.05-meter) distances from structures.

Minimum 20-square-foot- (1.86-square-meter-) long, 4.5-foot- (0.42-meter-) wide Hawaiian rain gardens juggle their diversely site-specific sizes from infiltration rates, number of gutter downspouts and roof square footage.

Hawaiian rain gardens know slope gradients maximally at 10 percent and 3:1 horizontal and vertical relationships that kindle sample 27-inch (68.58-centimeter) by 9-inch (22.86-centimeter) final shapes.

Two-plus-inch (5.08-plus-centimeter) rock-lined trenches with gradients maximally at 2 percent and 3-plus-inch (7.2-plus-centimeter) diameter pipes at 4-plus-inch (10.16-plus-centimeter) depths launch Kona stormwaters into Hawaiian rain gardens. Baby tears, dwarf bacopa and water hyssop ('ae'ae, Bacopa monnieri) and Hawaiian pepperwort, Hawaiian water-clover, Hawaiian water-fern and villous water-clover (ihi'ihilauakea, Marsilia villosa) maintain rain-channeling inlets. Cockspur flower and little spurflower ('ala'ala wai nui, Plectranthus parviflorus) nestles into Hawaiian rain gardens on the driest planting zones along rain-dispersing slopes and atop berms.

Hawaiian rain gardens offer their basins button sedge and tropical fimbry (mau'u 'aki 'aki, Fimbristylis cymosa) bunching grasses and Hawaiian daisy (nehe, Melanthera integrifolia) ground cover.

Hawaiian flax lily ('uki'uki, Dianella sandwicensis), Pele and volcano grass and Polynesian twig-rush (uki, Machaerina angustifolia) and sticky flatsedge (pu'uka'a, Cyperus trachysanthos) proliferate as basin sedges.

Giant, great, lakeshore, soft-stem bulrushes and gray club-rushes (a'ka'aka, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani) and smooth flat sedge (makaloa, Cyperus laevigatus) queue up as Hawaiian rain garden basin plants. Hawaiian fan palms (loulu, Pritchardia hillebrandii, P. kaalae and P. martii) and tree ferns (hapu'u, Cibotium chamissoi, C. glaucum, C. menziesii and C. nealiae) require basins. False mock orange (alahe'e, Psydrax odorata), forest sandalwood ('iliahi, Santalum freycinetianum) and Hawaiian nettle (māmake, Pipturus albidus) trees survive as accent plants anywhere and on basins.

Hawaiian rain gardens tether minimum, moderate and torrential rains whose symbolic counterparts threaten Adam Noshimuri (Ian Anthony Dale) since wife Kono Kalakaua's (Grace Park) treks eastward.

Navy Seals Ethan (James Beck) and Mike (Stephen Paul Kaplan) with Hawaii Five-0 Task Force's Junior Reigns (Beulah Koale) and Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 8, episode 24, Ka Lala Kaukonakona Haki 'Ole I Ka Pa A Ka Makani Kona (The Tough Branch That Does Not Break in the Kona Gale: CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 8.24 promotional photo via via SpoilerTV May 11, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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Oahu-based Hui o Ko'olaupoko (HOK) aims to protect ocean health and water quality through projects such as rain gardens: Jill N. Tokuda @jilltokuda via Twitter Aug. 21, 2014, @ https://twitter.com/jilltokuda/status/506317270130253825

Navy Seals Ethan (James Beck) and Mike (Stephen Paul Kaplan) with Hawaii Five-0 Task Force's Junior Reigns (Beulah Koale) and Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 8, episode 24, Ka Lala Kaukonakona Haki 'Ole I Ka Pa A Ka Makani Kona (The Tough Branch That Does Not Break in the Kona Gale): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 8.24 promotional photo via via SpoilerTV May 11, 2018, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/04/hawaii-five-0-episode-824-ka-lala.html

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