
“The catalog is the silent salesman.”
–W. Atlee Burpee
Apparently this seduction of the American gardening public with enthusiastic description and hyperbolic color imagery has been going on for quite a while. I succumbed badly this year.
And that was before I finished the shrub and vine orders today.
[…] my mini-rant yesterday about seed catalogs, someone asked on Facebook what new things we are trying this year. […]