PHX Reporter

For around 30 years - the Japanese Flower Gardens on East Baseline Road, shined as a colorful oasis in the middle of a rapidly growing city. Every spring, tourists would travel miles to drive past the fields, smell the flowers, and purchase beautiful bouquets.

At their height, the farms collectively shipped 259 boxes of flowers a day across the nation. Now, the original flower fields are replaced with suburban housing.

In 2006, the Kishiyama family sold the last of the flower fields. Baseline Flower Growers, the Nakagawa’s shop, is still open and selling flowers imported from South America and California. Though the flowers no longer fill Baseline Road’s 16-block stretch from 48th street through 32nd street, they still exist in photos and the memories of millions of Phoenix residents.

Read more about the rich history of the flower gardens and the family behind them in this AZCentral article: https://www.azcentral.com/…/baseline-flowers-so…/7965049001/

Original source can be found here.