Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Raintree Nursery $50 gift card giveaway

I'm particularly excited about today's giveaway for Urban Homesteading Giveaway Week because I looooove Raintree Nursery. I get their catalogs a couple of times a year and, if you like seed catalog porn, well then, you'll love the Raintree catalog and will want to take it into the bathroom for some private time.

Raintree sells, primarily, fruiting bushes, vines, shrubs and trees, alongside nut trees and bushes with some other oddities thrown in for good measure like jujube, goumi, paw paw, aronia and a whole host of other fruits and nuts that you'll be tempted to buy even if you have no idea what to do with them.

For my part, I have purchased in the past blueberry bushes, strawberry plants and a 4x1 dwarf cherry tree (wherein they threw in an additional graft just because). The plants and trees always arrive in perfect condition.

If you live in Western Washington, you can visit them personally (they are in Morton, WA) or you can do all your shopping online. And, for all of us crazy Raintree stalkers out there, we can now follow their nursery magic via their Facebook page.

Giveaway
The nice folks at Raintree have been kind enough to humor me and sponsor today's giveaway for a $50 gift certificate to one randomly chosen winner. That means you could buy:

1 self-pollinating dwarf plum tree, 25 Tristar strawberry plants and 10 asparagus crowns

OR

3 grape vines/plants and 1 fig tree

OR

whatever suits your fancy like one self-pollinating dwarf 4x1 cherry tree like I have.

No matter what you choose, they are all perfect for establishing or adding to your homestead.

How to enter
If you are interested in entering the random drawing for the $50 gift certificate, please add your name to the comments of this post. You have until midnight PST this Friday, February 25th to enter. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. Good luck!

Make sure you check out the other giveaways going on this week:

Win a swanky looking rain barrel
Win the books, Keeping Chickens and Canning & Preserving

Note: I am in no way affiliated with Raintree Nursery nor am I getting paid for this review/giveaway. I'm just supporting my local nursery peeps.

230 comments:

  1. LOVE the redesign!

    Please enter me. :D

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  2. I am also digging the redesign. And wanting the gift card. Wouldn't need a cherry tree where I live though, I'm surrounded by orchards.

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  3. Oh man raintree- your giveaways get betterer and betterer.

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  4. Oh I LOVE Raintree. I could definitely put this to good use. :)
    -Melissa

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  5. Urban Homesteading! Wheeee! Count me in for entry to random selection.

    Here's a terrible joke I made up when going to South Park last week:

    Q: why did the artist have a terrible accident at the 1st Avenue South Bridge in Seattle?

    A: because while driving, he took literally the instruction from the road-sign "Draw Bridge"

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  6. Oh please, oh please, oh please! My husband killed everything I tried to grow last year- I won't let him touch a thing this time around!

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  7. This would be awesome! Please count me in!

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  8. This would be perfect for my young garden!

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  9. Oooh, I love, love, love them! And there is always room for more berries, more fruit, more asparagus. Right? Right?

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  10. Love the idea, the catalog and would LOVE the giveaway! :-)

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  11. I would love to receive this. Thanks for the opportunity. - Chris

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  12. ooh, I've been lusting after a Meyer lemon tree. This would be lovely!

    @Jonathan - terrible joke, but nice to see someone else whose travels take them to South Park

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  13. Please enter me for the drawing.

    Thanks!

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  14. Please enter me in the contest!

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  15. I love Raintree! Could def. use a fig tree here. Or maybe some more berries.

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  16. Ohhhh! I know what I'd get! Cranberries, a sour cherry, a couple of peaches, an apricot.... Well, I guess I couldn't get all of it.... :-) Sign me up, please!

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  17. fig trees, I would plant an orchard of them if i could.. maybe someday!

    Lyndsay

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  18. Ooh, I spend way too much money at Raintree--this would help! Thanks for the chance. :-)

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  19. I would totally love this!
    Please enter me!

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  20. I am going to attempt turning my yard into an edible landscape. I'm working with a blank slate. This would really help out a LOT in getting things started!

    Thanks so much for doing these giveaways! Very exciting!

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  21. Ooohhh...I'd love to enter...I want this year to be the year we establish a mini-orchard on the (sub)urban homestead....

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  22. Please count me in! And thanks to you and Raintree for the chance to win.

    -Kate

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  23. We love raintree, even if we have to be careful ordering because we are in a very different climate. Would love to order some more trees from them.

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  24. I've never heard of Raintree before, will have to check it out. I love anything having to do with adding perennials to my yard. A self pollinating plum sounds fabulous!

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  25. Please enter me. I have the hardest time growing berry bushes due to problems with the lawn mower (actually the person operating the lawn mower).

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  26. Yea, I have a brand new back yard to fill!

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  27. Raintree is great. Count me in please

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  28. Please enter me in the contest! Thanks!

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  29. Oooooh, seed porn! I'm in! I'm just starting to plan my garden...please pick me!

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  30. We have seed catalog mania. Not Raintree though, do they have cold weather hardy plants?

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  31. Yes! Love this one - please count me in!

    Manuela

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  32. Can't wait to start gardening after the long, cold, winter in central Ohio. A master gardner gave me some good seed resources, but haven't heard of this one.

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  33. Awesome giveaway!! Love Raintree.

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  34. oh wow, this is awesome! i'd love to try some fruit!

    ummm... my word verification is "undstink"... should i take that personally?? :-D

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  35. pick me! we just moved and I am starting over!

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  36. I would love this--I am really wanting some blueberries.
    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  37. That gift card would be sweet! Thanks for the chance.

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  38. I really want some raspberries - this would make them highly affordable.

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  39. What a great giveaway!! Please enter me. Thank you. :)

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  40. Oh! I sooo need this! Now that we are no longer renting I wanted to put in lots of friut trees and perrenial veggies.

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  41. ooh, I'll enter this drawing! We put in blueberries, strawberries, lingonberries, cranberries, currants, some other stuff, and some nut trees last year. But in case any of them don't survive, we'll want to get some more! =)

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  42. Would love to order some more fruit for the garden.

    Thanks!!

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  43. Another great giveaway! We are possibly moving and I'll need all the help I can get to buy plants for the new house.

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  44. I <3 Raintree for the sheer fact that they offer fruit that you can't find anywhere else. Count me in!

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  45. I know exactly what I'd do with this one. Shall I send you the 3 page excel spreadsheet "Raintree Wishlist" I have detailing variety, ripening order and price as proof? ;)

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  46. I like the redesign. It's nice.

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  47. My insatiable appetite for fruiting plants will be satisfied. THX for promoting urban farmer's Hellers!

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  48. This Urban Homesteader would love to practice urban homesteading by planting a Raintree fruit tree on her (sort-of) urban homestead! ;)

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  49. Oooh, this one would be great. Please enter me in the drawing!

    -Angela Mazur

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  50. I'd love to win that gift certificate and I must say, I'm certainly enjoying Urban Homesteading week!

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  51. Awesome, thank you for the chance to enter!

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  52. I would love the chance to win it!

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  53. Strawberries, blueberries, figs?\
    Yes please.

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  54. I was just going to put in an order with Raintree. I'll wait on that and see what happens!

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  55. This is awesome. My dwarf fruits were eaten by rabbits this winter too, I could use some new trees.

    Thanks to you and Raintree!

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  56. What a timely give-away! I'm planting a couple cherry and one avacado tree today...count me in.
    Lynda

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  57. Never heard of them... going to check them out now & hope I win! -Andrea

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  58. Think of me! I want fruits. The nuts I think I take care of just fine! Blueberries and cherries, oh, my!

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  59. Ooooh, enter me please! My edible hedge will someday come to fruition! Bah DUM tsssh.

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  60. Love drooling over the Raintree catalog, that is- "looking through" it.

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  61. Oh my goodness!! I already know I would order an Improved Meyer Lemon tree. I have been wanting one of those for a couple of years now and it's $49.95.
    My fingers are SO crossed! :)
    Maria

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  62. Pick me, pick me, pick me! :) We moved last summer to a half acre and I'm looking to fill the back with fruit trees!

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  63. Oh yes please!! This is an amazing giveaway!

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  64. Count me in ... I have been drooling over the blueberry bushes for a while now and have been wanting to start a strawberry pyramid.
    -Jenette

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  65. Count me in ... I have been drooling over the blueberry bushes for a while now and have been wanting to start a strawberry pyramid.
    -Jenette

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  66. please enter me in the contest

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  67. Yea for gardening catalog porn! Sign me up!

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  68. I want this! I need more huckleberries!

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  69. We could really use a few fruit trees on the homestead:)

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  70. Gift card would be wonderful jump start to spring buying and planting!

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  71. Love Raintree and it's almost bareroot season.

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  72. Love Raintree, that's where I got my old style cooking apple. It needs a new friend.

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  73. I would buy more blueberry bushes! Hard to go wrong with blueberries :)

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  74. I don't know Raintree, I'll have to check them out. The husband and I just bought our first home, so we are working on our backyard "orchard."

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  75. Oh they have Elderberry plants. Count me (Mary M) in for the contest!

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  76. Gosh, I could replace those two "big box store" blueberry bushes that refused to survive last year.

    Please enter me in the drawing!

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  77. Your giveaways this week are amazing. I love catalog porn.

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  78. awesome! this would definitely help me out with my food forest installation!

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  79. Love the new look! :D OMG! The chance for my very OWN cherry tree?!?! If you only knew how much that = heaven to me! :) Please enter me into the drawing. :) That would rock my world. :)

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  80. Oh, would I love this!

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  81. Ooo, I'd love to have more edibles in my yard!

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  82. Garden porn...ooh la la. I'd like to enter this giveaway.

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  83. Deer killed my peach tree last year so I'd love to plant another!

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  84. If I were to win this I'm sure I'd go way over the $50! LOL!!

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  85. It just gets better and better around here!

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  86. I've been looking at getting a few dwarf fruit trees! I actually have a 2 year old dwarf fig, but so far no fruit.

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  87. Please add my name to the drawing. Such an opportunity!

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  88. Adding fruit trees is the next thing on the list for our little suburban homestead. Please enter me in the drawing!

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  89. Yep... I love nursery catalogs!
    I've never tried Raintree!

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  90. We just decided on the spot for grapes. This would be perfect!

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  91. Count me in! I love Raintree and order something every year.

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  92. Pick me! I lost my fig tree last year and would love to replace it.

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  93. Raintree's my first choice when ordering for my yard/orchard. Beautiful plants and great customer service.

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  94. Desperately need blueberries!! Would put this to wonderful use!!
    xoxo

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  95. Oh yes please! I desperately want blueberries!

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  96. Fabulous...always looking to plant small fruits here in Colorado!

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  97. First REAL garden this year. I can't wait to shop!

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  98. Thank you, a girl can never have enough home-grown food!

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  99. Oh perfect. I am looking at fruit trees right now.

    kirstencorsaro@mac.com

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  100. Yeah! The unusually long freeze killed my garden this year. I need to replant!

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  101. Wow! Sign me up!

    Tara

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  102. 50$ raintree gift card...that could be a LOT of fun :)

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  103. I just found your blog from the Take Back Urban Homesteading FB page and loved what I found here. Also love Raintree Nursery. Please enter me.
    ~Marianne

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  104. Please enter me in the giveaway.
    Blessings
    Diane

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  105. Ooo, lovely! My mind is already exploding with all the possibilities.

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  106. We love Raintree too---and have a dying fig tree to replace soon!

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  107. I'm not an urban homesteader, but I love Raintree! Their products are always superb!

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  108. yes, please! We just buried the front lawn in mulch and cardboard, and would love some yummier replacement plants.

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  109. I found you through Small Measure and am so glad I did.

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  110. This would be perfect for my new house we are getting this week.

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  112. please enter me in this fabulous giveaway! thank you!

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  113. Everbearing raspberries sound awesome! Especially the no trellising part ^_^

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  114. Sounds awesome. I really want some dwarf blueberry bushes.

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  115. Oh, my, my oh my, how I love Raintree! I love the blueberry bushes I got last year- and we're moving to 2 acres so you know I'm going to be buying more trees and bushes.

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  116. Would love this as I'm trying to decide on a fruit tree for my yard.

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  117. Love Raintree, please enter me!

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  118. This would be a great way to add berries to our garden.

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  119. Wow, I love Raintree and I am seriously considering blowing my "extra" garden budget with them this year. Amazing selection and plants!

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  120. I've been so busy with this "snow thing", I missed some of your great givaways! I'm catching up now.

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  121. Wow- awesome giveaway! I'm about to move and have land for the first time in my life, so boy this would be great!

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  122. I'm loving Urban Homesteading Giveaway Week.

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  123. Oh man, that website has me drooling. Please enter me in the contest!

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  124. Sign me up! Thanks, Haley Jordan

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  125. these are the best giveaways ever :)

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  126. Seriously, this is the best giveaway yet! i would be thrilled to win this one. Raintree has great stuff.

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  127. Oh DROOL! I just discovered the Raintree catalog this year, they have some fantastic stuff! We want to plant some wintergreen along the northside of the house (after reading about it for the gazillionth time in Farmer Boy, of course!)

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  128. Sounds like an excuse to start a dwarf orchard to me-Jim

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  129. I would love to see a picture of you smiling! ;)

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  130. shopping... I could go shopping...!! thanks for the chance...

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  131. This gift card would be very good for my garden :).

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  132. I have never seen a Raintree catalog, but the thought of winning a gift card to buy plants is wonderful.

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  133. This would be great. I would love some strawberry
    Plants- aida

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  134. Another great giveaway!

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  135. Wow - a week of giveaways! I love it.

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  136. We just finished planning this year's Raintree order...so I don't just want this gift card, I NEED it! ;)

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  137. I would use it to get an apple tree or two from Raintree.

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  138. Please enter me in your Raintree gift certificate giveaway -- I could put it to good use for our backyard garden in Seattle.

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  139. would love to win this too --so many great giveaways this week!

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  140. Ooooh I need some fruit trees! Count me in!

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  141. Planning a little orchard - this would really help us get started! :)

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  142. Not familiar with Raintree, but I'd like to be! Thanks for the chance. I'd love to have a gift card to purchase some fruit trees.

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  143. Love the redesign as well. Love Raintree.

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  144. I've been very slowly considering fruit options for awhile.

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  145. plz count me in - and thanks for reminding me it's almost time to start work in the garden again - with this snow outside it's easy to forget :)

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  146. They sell elderberries! Awesome! Hope I win, but if I don't, at least I know where I can get some from a trusted source now. Thanks!

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  147. We just lost a maple tree in an ice storm - I think a peach tree needs to go in its place!

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  148. Yes! Money for more plants!!!

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  149. you are just increasing my need to plant and are receiving another 8 inches of snow today....oh give me a spring cheer up!!!!

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  150. Mmmm. Tough call. What would I get...the plums are calling my name...

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  151. Awesome. I'm a huge fan as well. We went down there last year to see it. Very cool (though smaller than I expected given all they offer!).

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  152. ooh i would love to buy some blueberry bushes.

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  153. Sounds like a wonderful Nursery! Please enter me to win the $50 gift certificate. :)

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  154. I don't have a place to plant anything right now, but I know people who do! Please enter me!

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  155. another great give away! Very Cool!

    Peace!

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  156. Need some other things next to our fig trees.

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  157. Ooooo, Raintree gift certificate (drools all over keyboard) . . .

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  158. I plan on buying some fruit trees this year anyway but this would sure help!

    Tory in DC

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