Excitement Comes With The Mail

My Gurney Catalog came today. I find it such a thrill to open the pages and look at all the lovely plants. I covet the free gifts. I drool over the Farmers 1 cent sale. Wow - perennial carnations! They come in a rainbow of colors! Two for $2.49 plus 2 for only 1 cent equalling 4 or $2.50!! Bright greenhouse beauties with spicy fragrance-the description is practically pornographic. Gurneys always has some incredible offering. This year it is a dwarf fruit cocktail tree. Listen to this description: Amazing one-tree orchard. Pick 6 delicious varieties from this unusual tree. Plant our Fruit Cocktail Tree when you don't have room for an orchard. Pick nectarines, peaches, plums and apricots all from the same tree. Harvest bushels of fruit. Have plenty for jams, jellies, canning, eating fresh and freezing. Self-pollinating and grows about 10 feet tall in full sun. Reach fruit from this little one tree orchard standing right on the ground. And that first bushel of fruit will pay for the tree. Blossoms in spring-fruit in fall. In spring your tree will be loaded with an abundance of blossoms. A spectacular sight for the whole neighborhood to enjoy. Too bad it doesn't grow in zone 4 otherwise I would have to consider buying one. I must show restraint. I need to remember gardening from last year which was basically a food shelf for the momma deer and her twins. This year I will adjust. I'm going with root crops. The deer won't eat root crops. Gophers might. Oh, they have a seed potato eye bargain collection! Maybe I want blue potatoes. Oh, elephant garlic. Oh, they have carrots in orange, red-orange, yellow and purple. Oh, they sell bird netting. Would that work for deer too? If I put bird netting over my sunflowers, tomatoes and peppers, would the deer leave it alone? OK, must finish blogging and start my order. If I order $20 worth I get a free gift!!