Many of us receive plant and seed catalogs in the mail or view them online. The color pictures are vivid. The descriptions are detailed. The terminology would stump any “Jeopardy!” player. If you feel ...

Q: I love growing my own veggies from seed. I see catalog season is upon us, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the array of choices. Any tips for sorting through it all and making wise decisions?

As we push through these dark winter days, nothing feels more comforting than a steaming cup of tea and a stack of seed ...

If you have been at the gardening game for a while, you can still benefit from reviewing seed catalogs. We can learn about new plant varieties that are now available. You have learned your garden, ...

If you have an interest in gardening, chances are you are beginning to receive seed catalogs whose colors brighten any mailbox. With our weather so cold and the landscape so dreary, it is easy to ...

It started about a month ago, by mail. Then a week later another one arrived and then another. By last week, garden catalogs were arriving in full force from many of the large and small nurseries ...

The art in these catalogs is often highly elaborate. In 17th-century catalogs such as the Florilegium of Dutch nurseryman Emanuel Sweert (1552-1612), plants are usually etched side by side in ...

The late winter tsunami of garden-seed catalogs flooding local mail boxes is well underway. The closer we get to the changing of seasons, the quicker they come. Any seed company worthy of pitching ...

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