About Contemporary Landscaping LLC

Our History

Contemporary Landscaping was started in the early 1960’s by Rodney Fukui, a former University of Hawaii extension agent.

Agricultural land in the sixties, previously used for sugar cane production, started to be leased out by the DLNR. Initially starting with landscaping, Rodney purchased this newly leased land in Waimanalo to support his business as well as to sell to other landscapers. One of his notable jobs was landscaping the East West center of the University of Hawaii as a subcontractor under Kawahara Landscaping.

After having a stroke in 1991 and unable to walk, landscaping was phased out at Contemporary Landscaping. Clifford Migita, assistant manager of 30 plus years, helped to run the nursery with Rodney’s wife Iris Fukui. In 2006 Alfred Burer replaced Iris and worked with Clifford to run the nursery until 2015. That year Mark Fukui, Alfred’s son, took over and has continued to specialize in growing ornamental trees suitable for Hawaii’s streets.