If you’re planning to request a seed catalog in 2025, now is the time to do it. New seed catalogs get printed between mid-December and early January, so the seed catalogs we’ve gathered here are hot ...

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 ...

Follow me as we head out into the garden. Don’t worry; the snow’s gone, the grass is green, the weather’s warm and the flower beds are in full bloom. OK, it’s in the theater of the mind, but what a ...

NEW MARKET, VA. — Maybe there should be an Academy Awards kind of event for people who create seed and garden catalogs. They certainly deserve it, having entertained and enlightened generations of ...

Many of the best home gardens are planned around the kitchen table on unhurried winter nights as families gather to page through the seed catalogs arriving now in stacks as deep as snowdrifts. More ...

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 ...

Despite unseasonal winter heat waves in swaths of the South, Midwest and Northeast that might get green thumbs itching to get out and get planting, it’s a mostly fallow time for gardeners and farmers ...

Because of the increased costs of printing and mailing the past few years, I’ve found many smaller seed companies have discontinued producing paper catalogs, and they now put their inventories online.

I’m not sure if seed companies traditionally send their catalogs to subscribers the week after Thanksgiving, but this year our mailbox was swamped with various seed catalogs after the mail ran on ...

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, ...

Our columnist gives the highlights of several local ones. I’ve got seeds and catalogs on the brain – what gardener doesn’t at this time of year? And when my Johnny’s Selected Seeds catalog arrived in ...