Nursery catalogs are inexpensive, stuffed with current information and are an education as well as a sales tool. These two have been out on my desk since the day they arrived, since I use them as ...

Seed and nursery catalogs are out and we're on the road to planning our 2024 gardens. Catalogs are more than just pictures. They are reference books, telling us what will and won't grow here or how ...

Winter is a great time for planning improvements to your garden with seed, bulb and nursery catalogs arriving in the mail. There are many temptations in these catalogs, so focus on choosing plants ...

For 2012, Burpee's catalog introduces its Boost Collection of six nutrient-rich vegetables designed exclusively for home gardens. (MCT) MCT Garden catalogs are more than pages and pages of pretty ...

It never fails to amaze me when our animals know what we need to do better than we do. The flood of garden catalogs that has arrived in the mail recently has piled up in my reading spot. A couple of ...

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 ...

In the early days of this column, I had a list of several “must have” seed catalogs. They were all snail mail catalogs. These were the ones that took care of Alaska gardeners or had fantastic pictures ...

Experienced gardeners long for more exotic selections than those found in their local nurseries. So they order plants from growers who specialize in seldom seen species and cultivars. One of these ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Let's face it. There is a reason we all eventually fall under the spell of perennials. They are the easiest plants to grow and maintain, sure, but they are also the ones that produce the most ...