Its paper catalog is available for free, “and always will be,” according to its website. This year’s edition offers over 380 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A longtime garden writer shares her go-to sources for flower, veggie, and herb seeds.

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 ...