We don't have much influence on where and to whom we are born, but we do have a lot of influence on what we do with our lives, even from a relatively early age. I was born in the country of Denmark, to a horticulturist father and a mother who came from farming. This was in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II. Shortly after the war, my parents started a small nursery that never grew beyond the original two acres. This is where I grew up, in a life with plants that had to provideour livelihood. Often that was very meager. There was a lot of love and a lot of teaching, and somehow we all liked those plants. Unfortunately, my father often liked too many that never produced for the livelihood. Since our family could not afford tosend me to high school (you paid for that in those days) I was apprenticed out to a nursery in a neighboring town. Here I learned to grow many plants that I never knew about from my father's place. The boss was good; he even grew some plants just so I could learn how to do it.
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