A sea of soft colors, deep purples and ruby reds, stretches across a greenhouse the size of a football field.
"Will I ever get tired of growing African violets?" Reinhold Holtkamp, Sr., asks in reply to a visitor's question. "Not until our customers get tired of them too."
As long as Americans have been tending these tiny beauties, the Holtkamp family has been tinkering with them. In fact, if your grandmother's living room was filled with bright bunches of blooming violets, you can thank Reinhold's father, Hermann Holtkamp.
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