Up Front Flowers in
Front Vegetable Garden
They say first impressions are important. They say put your best in the front row. They say serve the best wine up front. I am not sure who ‘they’ are, but when I built my front lawn vegetable garden I wanted to make a good up front impression. So in the front row below the raised bed vegetable garden I put some nice flowers, perennials and annuals. It is especially important these late spring dates that the front row look good since the tomato, basil and eggplant plants in the raised garden are just developing. The front row of flowers works, as many persons have walked by the garden when I was working in it and said that it was a good looking garden.
Personally I do not put much stock in first impression or what a person puts up front. I wait to look deeper into a person before making any judgments. However, accepting that first impression are used I suggest a smile.
A smile is like a flower in the front row of the garden. It makes a good impression and puts the other person at ease.
The other day at a “Stand for Peace” I was holding a sign up on a street corner that read: “No War”. A pickup truck pulled up and the driver pulled down his window and started screaming in anger with foul language at me. I just stood there and smiled at him. When the light turned green he had to pull away but I think if he would have stayed my smile would have trumped his vulgar and violent language. My upfront smile would have outlasted his upfront anger.
Upfront flowers and smiles their role in gardening and life.
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