Amy B. H. Greenwell
| Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden |
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Interpretive sign at the garden
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| Location | Island of Hawaiʻi |
| Nearest city | Captain Cook, Hawaii |
| Area | 15 acres (6.1 ha) |
| Established | 1974 |
| Governing body | Bernice P. Bishop Museum |
The Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is a botanical garden near Captain Cook, Hawaii in the Kona District on the Big Island of Hawaii. The gardens closed for the public on January 31st, 2016.
The 15-acre (6.1 ha) garden is owned by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. It is located at 19°29′29″N 155°54′43″W / 19.49139°N 155.91194°WCoordinates: 19°29′29″N 155°54′43″W / 19.49139°N 155.91194°W uphill (mauka) of the Hawaii Belt Road, known as Māmalahoa Highway or Hawaii Route 11, on the western slope of Mauna Loa.
Amy Beatrice Holdsworth Greenwell was born in 1920. Her father was Arthur Leonard Greenwell (1871–1951) and mother was Beatrice Hunt Holdsworth (1891–1981). She was one of the 23 grandchildren of Henry Nicholas Greenwell (1826–1891), who arrived in Hawaii in the 1850s and became a successful merchant and rancher in the area. Her maternal grandparents were merchant Edmund William Holdsworth and Edith Mary Winifred Purvis (1860–1950), who was a first cousin of Annie Oliphant Cornelia Purvis (1870–1947), great-great-grandmother of 23rd Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, and a distant cousin of William Herbert Purvis, a plant collector on the other side of the island.
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