Toichi Domoto was a Japanese-American horticulturist and nurseryman who introduced tree peonies, camellias, gerberas, fuchsias, and many other plant varieties to California. He was born in Oakland, California to Kanetaro Domoto who ran the Domoto Brothers greenhouses and provided Toichi and many other Japanese and Japanese-American families an early horticultural education and experience. Domoto went on to attend Stanford University and University of Illinois where he studied floriculture. He purchased twenty-six acres in Hayward in 1927 where he founded Domoto's Nursery and began work on introducing a variety of plant types and imports. He participated in the California Association of Nurserymen and the California Society. In this interview, Domoto discusses his family history, traditions and members, the Domoto Bros. Nursery, imports, quarantine and incorporation, childhood, education, purchasing his nursery, land and location, financing, Camellia and Southern California Commerce, Industry, and Labor, customers, Japanese imports in garden shows, "backyard gardeners," patents, other growers, marriage, WWII relocation period, work in Illinois, and his work with bonsai, tree peonies and other plant materials. Appended Domoto Family tree, 1925 college report, 1981 ROHO interview on Lurline Roth and Filoli, 1987 ROHO interview on Blake Garden, Anita Blake and Mabel Symmes.