Not Tonight Deer and Other Garden Giggles

Image from product web site.

During our recent spell in the deep freeze, I’ve been spending the evening going through garden catalogs, ripping out pages of the seeds and tools I might order. Garden catalogs are very enticing, but also great fun–especially the names of the plants and products. Gardeners seem to have a taste for the corny and the punnish, all of which is good for a chuckle on a frigid evening.  Here are a few of my favorites:

• Not Tonight Deer, a non-toxic deer repellent that can be used on fruit and vegetable crops. Note the headache coming on in the image from the package.
• Ka-Bluey blueberries, an explosively crunchy blueberry variety.
• Pickin’ and Grinnin’ green beans — these plants are heavy producers
• Fat N’ Sassy peppers
• Disco™ mix marigolds – the 70s live on.
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  The Joker Sunflower

  The Joker sunflowers. I asked my Batman-obsessed teenager about these and she thought that the flowers did look a bit like the Joker — or maybe it’s the playing card. What do you think? From left to right, Heath Ledger as the Joker, a joker, and The Joker Sunflower.