As it was done with Earth Day and everything good people did, we became pawns in the corporate PR game. After putting up a pittance for a rain water tank in our garden, Aveeno is milking it for all it's worth it. A satellite link back then, summoning gardeners to assist at 4:30 AM....
Bringing greenhouse pots in an early spring/cold weather garden - "so it looks good" for the shoot, rent-a-kid vacationing children (as the gardeners' kids were in school that day)
...Little did we know they'll be doing "before" shots too - to illustrate how lazy we are to not get the garden to bloom in winter...
Here's the little example of corporate truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz_3BP2i5Q4
Enjoy (and read the comments)
Among the things that made the "before": Maya's birdhouse, the mural high school kids painted as part of a community outreach program, the garbage gardeners were taking out to prepare for Aveeno-s photo op and most of the cold April early spring sights
Among the things that made the "after": my tulips (planted by a gardener before me) Clover's totem statue - sculpted years ago as a response to the real estate developers trying to take over the garden
From Leslie's collection, some truly "before" shots and some "after" - not a corporate fake-out - but years of loving effort from many gardeners
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