As gardeners curl up on the couch each January, dreaming of abundant summer, a war of words rages in that cozy corner of literature inhabited by seed catalogs. It’s your wits against those of seedsmen ...

In the middle of a long, cold winter, it warms a gardener’s heart to find the mailbox packed with seed and plant catalogs. I recently received a trio of them from the granddaddy of the seed companies, ...

The W. Atlee Burpee Co., affectionately known as “Burpee seeds” to millions of American gardeners, is the nation’s largest home seed and plant company and was founded in Philadelphia in 1876, at the ...

Yikes! Out of the deep freeze and into the month of May! Please enjoy the warm weather this weekend, but please resist the temptation to do any pruning! Yes, winter pruning is the rule for big trees ...

Snow may be on the ground today, but it won’t be there forever. So, why let it get you down? Brew up a nice mug of hot tea, sit back, relax and let your fingers do the walking through some seed and ...

Ah yes, winter and all its glory. It was Christmas day morning when I ventured outside to get my newspaper and slipped on a patch of ice, breaking my ankle. Painful, yes, but at least it's January and ...

The morning glory flower can take months to blossom, but seeing their stunning trumpet-shape blooms finally pop from their spindly tendrils is so worth the wait. “We call the morning glory ‘happiness, ...

The seed trade catalogs document the history of the seed and agricultural business in the United States; they also provide a history of botany and plant research such as the introduction of plant ...

The plant and seed catalogs are still dribbling in, and I’ll review all of them at some point, but for now I’m focusing on the companies from which I order vegetable seeds most frequently – Johnny’s ...

Robins get all the credit for being a first sign of spring, but that’s not entirely true. For gardeners, a seed catalog arriving in the mailbox is the first proof that spring is on its way. Seed ...