Although grown mainly for ornamental and fruit-production purposes, plants also make an ideal fortress against mutinous garden gnomes. Fortify your homestead with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of plants and gardening gear at Meldrum Brothers Nursery in New Baltimore.

Housed in a quaint red-barn building, Meldrum Brothers Nursery proffers a cornucopia of greenhouse goodies and various landscape accouterments in a massive showroom. The shop stocks everything from bagged mulches, soils, and sands to bulk soils and decorative stone. Customers can embellish a walkway with western-sunrise stone to confuse the neighborhood rooster ($5.99/0.5 cubic ft.) and tuck potted roses ($19.99) into bed with a blanket of cedar mulch and a glass of warm milk ($4.99/2-cubic-ft. bag). An assortment of 5-gallon fruit trees, such as apple, pear, cherry, or plum, make edible lawn ornaments or summer hats ($25). Organic soils and fertilizers appease green-minded green thumbs, who can display lush flora in one of Meldrum Brothers' hanging baskets or ornate pottery planters and relax, sinking into newly acquired rustic patio furniture.