@sueinmn the deer ate the blooms and leaves off my grafted cherry tree! Everything was there on Thursday, yesterday afternoon I noticed it's bare again. It must be a delectable snack for them. I was going to get involved in trading and buying starts for this spring, but I don't have a place to put anything since we need to build raised bed. The soil here is very much in need of amending and is mostly clay. We have the materials for building the raised beds, and a source for some good organic compost and soil. Maybe I should just wait and look forward to getting things set up and do it all next year? The existing plants are doing fairly well. The one rose bush was so happy to be cut back in January it is now almost 3 ft tall!
Sue, I hope all of your friends are appreciative of the work you did getting things for them today. And the owner of that nursery sounds like a gem. Also hoping that everything survives your frost again tonight.
Ginger