The Rose Nursery

July 31, 2005

Looking back at my last entry, it seems a little Six-Feet-Under-ish but that was certainly not the intent (although I do like the show). The reason there are always a lot of roses at our family events is because of the Ninomiya’s nursery.

For many years, my cousins have run a huge rose nursery business just outside of San Francisco, but recently retired. When I was little, I would visit the nursery, and I loved walking into the coolers that were filled with a wonderful scent of thousands of fresh cut roses.

At its peak, the nursery included over a million square feet of greenhouses under glass.

Although the Nimomiyas have retired and are selling the land, when we visited there were still fruit trees, vegetables, and orchids growing everywhere.

My cousin Alice teaches my niece how to look for ripe strawberries in the family garden.

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