Here are some new, or newly available, plants for 2008 that piqued our interest. It's too soon to say exactly where most of them will be available, but if a source is not listed keep an eye out for ...

Growing flowers and vegetables from seed gives you more choices and saves money. Here are 10 great seed catalogs to check out ...

Come late winter, newspaper garden writers routinely deliver a column about plant and seed catalogs. I sympathize. There’s not a ton to write about, with the ground half-frozen and the sun still low ...

It’s always fun when garden catalogs arrive in the mail. Mine generally start to arrive in December and continue through February. In the evening when things slow down, you will find me drooling over ...

Last week I wrote about ordering seeds from catalogs. This week I'd like to turn to ordering plants. It's amazing what they can send in the mail these days! They can ship cut flowers, bulbs, fragile ...

The season kicks off with the new catalog from the W. Atlee Burpee Company (or just plain “Burpee” to us) as they celebrate their 140th year in the business. The star of this year’s big Burpee show is ...

We have lots of places to buy plants in the North Central Florida area, from "big box" stores like The Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse to local nurseries run by local gardeners and ...

Winter made a strong but brief visit last weekend. The storm dropped more than a foot of snow (a lot more!), and combined with a sore knee (a snow-shoveling injury), it kept me virtually housebound ...

A new crop of plant catalogs has ushered in another gardening year, many promising a bit of Eden with a portrait of this tasty vegetable or that pretty flower. Among them, but sporting a cartoon cover ...

Fall is the perfect time to plan your spring landscape, and if you're planning to add trees, there are several things you ...

If tending to gardens carried us through the pandemic, seed catalog are sparks of hope, carrying us through the long winter. Even if you order online, these catalogs can inspire, inform and, yes, ...

Who among us hasn't felt a certain giddiness when opening a snow-covered mailbox to find a colorful gardening catalog filled with photos of ripe, red tomatoes, crisp green lettuces and jewel-toned ...