| If you've ever had a garden, then you know that | | | | Today, people can get very involved in their own lives |
| vegetables and flowers can't grow in a jungle. There is | | | | and sometimes they never see their neighbors. Getting |
| a lot of care and consideration involved in a garden's | | | | to know the folks next door can be helpful for many |
| growth. Beautiful flowers, landscaping, and healthy | | | | reasons, especially when their property affects your |
| vegetables depend on a number of inter-related | | | | garden. Since sunlight is a crucial source of energy, |
| factors, such as the soil, nutrients, sufficient water, | | | | most flowers and vegetables simply cannot grow in |
| insecticide, fertilizer, and sunlight. It is a combination of all | | | | the shade. Just as you have to pick weeds from your |
| these factors that produce the right conditions for a | | | | space so that weeds don't absorb all the water, you |
| colorful, productive garden, whether it is at home or | | | | may have to talk with your neighbor about tree |
| outside a business. | | | | trimming. |
| As a good gardener depends on a set of important | | | | The successful formula for a healthy garden is the |
| relationships in nature, so a gardener may depend on a | | | | same as you need with your neighbors, good |
| good relationship with neighbors. If you have land that | | | | relationships. It makes good sense to promote positive |
| you can control yourself, then you may be able to | | | | relationships with your neighbors, introduce yourself, get |
| cater the environment to maximize aesthetics and | | | | to know them, maybe invite them to dinner. Let them |
| productivity. However, when you have property next | | | | know how important your garden or landscaping is to |
| to someone, then you need to develop a relationship | | | | you or your business. Change them from strangers |
| with your neighbor. If you share a property line, then a | | | | into people who are part of your social network. |
| neighbor's landscaping can affect your garden. | | | | Instead of just asking neighbors to take care of their |
| It may be necessary to cultivate a quality relationship | | | | trees, you need to show them that the benefit is |
| with your neighbor for the sake of a healthy garden. If | | | | mutual. You may want to demonstrate that you trim |
| a neighbor has trees along the border of your | | | | your trees so that you do not negatively affect their |
| property, then that affects the quality of your garden, | | | | property. You may suggest a professional service if |
| which affects both the appearance of your property | | | | the job is too big for an individual, or involves a |
| as well as the growth of vegetables. In the old days, it | | | | dangerous situation such as trees growing through |
| is possible that neighbors considered each other more. | | | | power lines. If you need professional assistance, help |
| Communities seemed closer-knit, and people used to | | | | can be on the way any time of the day or night. |
| know their neighbors. | | | | |