My husband of 35 years and I spent many of those years in the garden center business teaching gardening enthusiasts how to create a landscape of color around their homes. As container gardening became another avenue to take color anywhere, we decided that the standard T-1 mailbox that is placed in front of most homes, was needing to be re-addressed in a "chic" smart & stylish way. We are now 53 & 59 and recently designed with a pat. pending our solution to the once-drab standard mailbox. Available thru our home based website, our one-a-kind Classic Americana mailbox planter simply slips over the existing mailbox with attachment and allows you the ability to customize with endless painting possibilities. Our planter is Proudly Made in the USA, helping to keep jobs at home. Manufactured in eco-friendly double walled extremely durable #2 HDPE with uv stabilizers and proper drainage for healthy growing conditions. Filled with seasonal flowers and evergreens and ornaments for the holidays our mailbox planter will make a great first impression and will bring a smile to your mail carriers face. May is mailbox improvment month via the U.S.P.S.

"Think Outside The Mailbox" www.creativemailboxplanters.com

How did you get to where you are now?

As a youger woman, I made the decision to "do what I love and love what I do".. . . . It took me to the world of flowers. It did not make me rich in money, but it fed my soul each and every day. I have never regreted a moment.

How do you see yourself differently now than you did 10 years ago?

I may be 10 years older, but my spirit is still 10 years younger.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Traveling the nation and taking photos of the gardening enthusiasts who have created their own style and taste with our one-of-a-kind mailbox planters and enjoying the many smiles that it will bring to all who enter or passby. We also hope to provide a habitat for the earths creatures who choose to enter. . . .a conservation area. . . I would like to call it "A PLACE TO BE STILL" and allow humans to come and enjoy the peace that we all need every now and then.