By any other name, it smells just as sweet, as long as it's a safe distance from your family's garbage

The Shinoda family is a different story. In fact, the website you’re currently browsing and the store that so many of you love would not be around if it weren’t for roses. Starting with Kumaichiro Shinoda in 1906, and continuing until 1985, the Shinoda family was growing roses in the Bay area of California. The operation spread throughout the state and even into Texas under the San Lorenzo Nursery Company name. James wrote all about the history of the Shinoda family for the old site, so you can read more about how Shinoda Design Center came to be when you follow that link.

Plenty has already been written about roses and their meaning, but I did find something interesting while perusing wikipedia. The ‘thorns’ on a rose stem or bush that get you if you’re trying to hide behind the rose bush and the trash can are not actually thorns; they’re prickles. Thorns are actually ‘modified stems’ and prickles are ‘outgrowths of the epidermis’. Unfortunately, ‘every rose has its prickles’ doesn’t sound as cool, so the prickle will most likely continue to be mistaken for a thorn.

One thing is certain: you won’t have to worry about prickles or thorns when you buy a rose at Shinoda’s .

-Chris

Thanks to James and all of the Shinodas for the history of the Shinoda Family. The now of the Shinoda Family can be found at Shinoda Design Center in San Diego and Santa Ana.
Also thanks to Wikipedia for its usual collection of trivial knowledge. Wikipedia can be found on the internet at www.wikipedia.org ]]> http://www.shinodadesigncenter.net/2011/06/08/rose-silk-flower-stem-of-the-day/feed/ 0