Massive plant nursery in Dos Palos hiding in plain sight

Many of the employees packing flowers and keeping them watered person been with the institution for much than 20 years.

DOS PALOS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Along a engaged agelong of Highway 152 successful Dos Palos, the Dash Dream Plant Orchid Barn has been hiding successful plain show since 1999.

"This is similar a hidden treasure, beauteous much," says cashier Erika Campos. "A batch of radical person gone by here."

Those who propulsion implicit find a nursery wherever you tin halt and odor the orchids.

"You're capable to spot astatine slightest similar 200,000 oregon 300,000 bloomed plants successful the greenhouse close here," says Vice President Boram Jung. "Then my customers volition get truly amazed."

"The shape, the color, the greenish -- it's conscionable awesome," says lawsuit Ruben Alvarado.

Jung's parents started the concern with conscionable implicit 1,000 plants.

"I'm precise blessed," helium said. "My parents are precise beardown people. They ever had this passionateness to turn these orchids present successful the Central Valley."

Today, concern is virtually blooming.

"We turn astir astir 1.5 cardinal Phalaenopsis orchids passim the year," Jung said. "We besides turn immoderate tropical plants specified arsenic fortunate bamboos, dracaena plants."

The greenhouse cooling strategy tin support temperatures betwixt 75 and 80 degrees.

Jung is feeling the vigor from US tariffs. Baby orchid plants indispensable beryllium imported from countries similar Taiwan and South Korea.

"Starting successful October, I'm acrophobic the tariffs are going backmost to 30% and it's going to truly ruin the business," helium said.

The household supplies orchids for stores similar Trader Joe's and Aldi. We saw immoderate that were being packaged for Save Mart stores.

Many of the employees packing flowers and keeping them watered person been with the institution for much than 20 years.

"I judge everyone is happy," helium said earlier asking the employees if they were blessed successful Spanish.

"If you ever person clip to halt and travel into the orchid barn, you're much than invited to travel successful here," Campos said.

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