Dear readers: Last week I talked about some of my favorite open-pollinated, local vegetable seed companies. This week, I promised to discuss some of my favorite ornamental and fruit catalogs. So here ...

One of my favorite winter pastimes is curling up next to the fire with a stack of seed catalogs. I particularly enjoy reading about the newest vegetable varieties because it’s always good to try ...

Nurseries, home improvement stores and even grocery stores may have racks of seeds available when it’s time to start gardening, but there’s nothing like looking through seed catalogs, especially when ...

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 ...

It's one of my favorite times of the year when my favorite seed catalog arrives in the mail and I can start dreaming and planning what I will plant in this season's garden. No matter if you're ...

Groundhog Day has come and gone. That means we’re coming down home stretch. Winter is more than half gone. It’s time to think about ordering seeds, if you haven’t yet. I know that many great gardeners ...

WASHINGTON — The new edition of the J L Hudson “Ethnobotanical Catalog of Seeds” is filled with rare varieties, old favorites and seeds for plants that most people didn’t even know produced seeds.

The seed catalogs have started arriving. Every year at this time they begin slithering through the mail slot with all their enticing photos and glorious possibilities. One of the most original, and ...