If you're not familiar with Plant Delight's Nursery, you're in for a treat! It's written like no other catalogue you've ever encountered. Caricatures and humor permeate the pages and pages and pages ( you get the idea!) of plant listings. They're located in North Carolina and tend to favor plants for Zones 7 and up. However, there are plenty of zone 5 plants of interest for our Massachusetts gardens. Owner, Tony Avent, is a world reknown plant hunter ,who searches the globe for new offerings for gardeners.
If you're a plantaholic (like me!) , i.e., someone who buys a plant and then tries to find a place in the garden for it , you won't be disappointed. You'll find many new cultivars of those plants we typically see at our local nurseries (hostas, huecheras, etc.) and extraordinary, rare plants to fill our gardening lusts.
There are still at least four more weeks of winter left -thanks to Punxsatawney Phil- and spending time reading the Plant Delights Catalogue will fill that time with much needed humor and ,maybe, you'll find the perfect plant to fill that space or two in your garden .
OH! I can' wait for Spring!
(FYI: The plants I've ordered from their catalogue arrived healthy and carefully packaged to protect them.)
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