Teaching Metaphor

"Create a metaphor for teaching or teaching/learning? Post your description and a visual response on the blog."

Teaching is growing a garden in your front yard. 

You plant a seed, nourish it, and try your best to help it bloom. You might occasionally see how your efforts made a difference, but its impossible to recognize its full impact. You are not always in the garden to see who passes by and is impacted by your efforts on those individual flowers.

Here's a video I found on flowers blooming.