The Baseline Flower Fields

In the 1960s, if you drove along Baseline Road, skirting the edge of South Mountain, you’d enter a kaleidoscope of colors bursting from the dirt - flower fields that stretched for 300 acres. The picturesque scene was cultivated each year by Japanese-American families. Today, the last reminder of those flowers is a modest shop called Baseline Flower Growers. Kathy Nakagawa joins her 95-year-old father, Nick Nakagawa, at the shop to talk about their memories.
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[@heatherwonnacott-helm6358]

I was raised in Ahwatukee, we lived close to south mountain on that side and could smell the flowers also i remember the citrus fields you could smell them it was awsome. My mom and dad would drive their to get flowers and we see all those beautiful flowers. omg what a sight to see! It was quit something so thank you for doing that all these years!

[@tomiegarcia7019]

I remember..🌸🌷🌹🌻🌺🌼💐

[@charlesbowen9358]

I remember driving along Baseline and loving the sight and aroma of the fields...Nick is a wonderful person!

[@patricefairbanks3502]

My dad did business w/ them. He sold fertilizer & soil conditioners & was good friends with all of the growers. He often brought Mom huge bouquets of the beautiful flowers (LOVED the aroma!) as well as other goodies from their roadside markets. That was in the late 50s & early 60s.

[@pamelajohnson7813]

Oh, how I wished there were some color photos from that tower included in this video. It was just a spectacular sight! I miss the fields and the smell of citrus, too, while driving down Baseline!

[@val13c59]

Sometimes progress is a bad thing. To see all the new developments of track homes takes away the beauty baseline used to be.