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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When I was a little girl, my mother & I would visit our local nursery and wish that we worked there. The smell of the earth and the flowers was so wonderful.
I love roses. My favorites are peach-colored ones like the ones I carried at my wedding. What a fabulous picture that is of your cousin and niece!
Gorgeous flowers! It must have been amazing to visit the nursery when you were a child.
Great picture of your cousin and neice.
My Grandma, who died in Feb, loved to garden in her village yard in England. She only let me near the veggies, but I grew some killer broad beans. She couldn't get me to eat them no matter how much ketchup I put on them, but it was fun growing them. Thanks for reminding me!
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