Sactown Magazine
March 2, 2021
The roaming Miridae Mobile Nursery pops up in neighborhoods from Woodland to Orangevale. (Photo by Tyler Whitmire)
Thanks to a blossoming trend of mobile plant nurseries, you won’t have to wait for April showers to bring you beautiful flowers. Brimming with springtime sprigs, these four petal pushers on wheels are popping up at local farmers’ markets and other regional locations from taproom parking lots to curbside at private residences ready to stuff your pockets full of posies.
Miridae Mobile Nursery
Heralded by a custom jingle of nature sounds that blares from its speakers, Miridae Mobile Nursery cruises residential neighborhoods from Woodland to Orangevale, and brakes for other destinations like Sudwerk Brewing Company in Davis and Limelight Bar & Cafe in East Sacramento. Sometimes, the lorry will also stick around its home base, the new West Sacramento headquarters of Miridae Landscape, founded by landscape designer Billy Krimmel, who has