Plant Delights Nursery

Plant Delights

Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Mail order nursery
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Products	Rare and unusual perennials
Owner	Tony Avent and Anita Avent
Website	www.plantdelights.com

Plant Delights Nursery is a mail order plant nursery based in Raleigh, North Carolina, specializing in herbaceous perennials, and owned by Tony Avent and partner Anita Avent. The nursery was established in 1988. ^[1]

Plant Delights Nursery has a specialty catalog ^[2] with humorous, topical covers drawn by cartoonist Jack Pittman. The nursery has been featured in many newspapers, ^{[3] [4] [5]} magazines, ^[6] and on television. ^{[7] [8]}

In 2012, the nursery's spring catalog cover ignited a strong reprisal from Penn State alumni when the cover featured a caricature of former coach Jerry Sandusky dressed as a lion with a Penn State logo attached chasing children down a road. Numerous Facebook comments directed to the business were deleted. Avent commented on News 5 WRAL in Raleigh that he stands by his artwork. ^[9]

In 2021, Plant Delights' spring catalog featured President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and a number of children reading sexually suggestive pages from a book held by Biden entitled "Kama Seedtra". ^[10]

References

1. Plant Delights History Web Page
2. Photo Gallery of Plant Delights Catalog Covers
3. Gardener's fantasy and a reality check The Chicago Tribune
4. N.C. nursery's plant catalog always fun The Houston Chronicle
5. The Plant Hunter The New York Times
6. The Plant HunterGarden and Gun Magazine Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
7. Almanac Gardener
8. "The Martha Stewart Show". Archived from the original on 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
9. WRAL Story on Backlash
10. "PlantDelights Spring2021 - Powered by PageTurnPro.com". www.pageturnpro.com. Retrieved 2021-01-22.

External links

• http://www.plantdelights.com

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