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n a real sense, the but he was also oldest garden nursvery set in his ways. ery in Marin started When Karl bought not in California—but West End in 1954 in Germany, Canada, from his aged uncle Australia, the Yukon, he introduced many Chicago and New York “radicalâ€? concepts, City. After trying his such as advertisluck in all these placing in newspapers, es, world-wandering selling gardening Richard Lohrmann, tools and staying originally of Hamburg, open on Sundays. heard about work put- Where the seeds of Marin were planted. Much to Uncle ting in a garden for the Richard’s astonishFoster family’s Fairhills estate in San Rafael. He ment, such foolishness helped the business applied, moved into the gate house and got to grow. Tom says that, as a result, his father work. And he started to appreciate the Marin remained exible and open to innovation climate. A few years later, in 1909, Lohrmann and, because of this, “He was a good person bought a one-acre pear orchard near Fairhills to work for.â€? and set up West End Nursery. Finally, the wanTom grew up in the nursery business, dering horticulturalist put down roots. and started working full time after he gradLohrmann loved plants, developed uated from UC Davis in 1969. He bought prize-winning dahlias and became a friend the business from his father 25 years ago, to the “Plant Wizard,â€? Luther Burbank. But and has tried to remain as exible and open the most signiďŹ cant development for the to ideas as his dad was. Marin, of course, nursery came in 1928, when Lohrmann’s 16- with all its microclimates, is an interestyear-old nephew, Karl Untermann, arrived ing place to garden and the inux of new from Lubeck, Germany, and varied plants in the past few years has to work for his uncle. As made the nursery business more dynamic Untermann’s son Tom than ever. Experience and patience count in says, with some undergardening, and West End consistently earns statement, “There were a lot of problems in high marks from customers for its friendly, Germany then—his mother said it was time helpful staff—many of whom happen to be for him to leave.â€? named Untermann. Karl Untermann, who died in 1999, told Tom’s son Chris has been working at West the story of his uncle’s global wanderings End since he graduated from Davis in 1998. and the start of the nursery for the oral his- And Chris has two sons, although at 2 years tory project at the Marin County Library. old and 10 months old, it’s a little early to West End Nursery is now on two acres tell if a ďŹ fth generation of the family will be smack in the middle of a west San Rafael running West End some day. Although, says neighborhood; when it started it was in the Tom, “You never know.â€? —Julie Vader country, with only two buildings around. West End Nursery, 1938 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, 415/454-4175, Uncle Richard may have been a visionary— www.westendnursery.com
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