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August 19, 2010

Plant Delight's new catalog: zany as ever

Tony Avent, proprietor of Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh, N.C., has just issued the latest in his politically incorrect plant catalogs.

The theme this time, for the renegade plant collector, is a Gardener's Tea Party.

I can spot Nancy Pelosi as the Red Queen, Sarah Palin as the Cheshire Cat and Michelle Obama as Alice, plus Massachusett's new senator, Scott Brown, in Playboy bunny ears.

Can you figure out the rest of the characters?

The cover was again drawn by commercial cartoonist Jack Pittman.

Some of his previous covers are available, for $20, on a T-shirt.

Avent's politics can obscure the fact that he is an extraordinary plant collector and offers a tremendous variety of plants.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: From the catalogs

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Funnaayy!

Posted by: Michelle Brown | August 19, 2010 7:45 AM

I got the spring catalog and hope I'm still on the distribution list for fall. The verbage is very, very funny although unapologetically anti-annual!

Not to mention, politically conservative! -- Susan

Posted by: Eve | August 19, 2010 10:42 AM

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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