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 ...

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 ...

Last week I wrote about ordering seeds from catalogs. This week I'd like to turn to ordering plants. It's amazing what they can send in the mail these days! They can ship cut flowers, bulbs, fragile ...

The season kicks off with the new catalog from the W. Atlee Burpee Company (or just plain “Burpee” to us) as they celebrate their 140th year in the business. The star of this year’s big Burpee show is ...

We have lots of places to buy plants in the North Central Florida area, from "big box" stores like The Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse to local nurseries run by local gardeners and ...

JANUARY IS NATIONAL Mail Order Gardening Month. Take this month to peruse the catalogs you find filling your mailbox. Plants by mail have come a long way since the early days. Most mail order ...

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, ...

Who among us hasn't felt a certain giddiness when opening a snow-covered mailbox to find a colorful gardening catalog filled with photos of ripe, red tomatoes, crisp green lettuces and jewel-toned ...

As you become an experienced gardener, you will want plants that you have a hard time finding locally. This new plant situation is a "Catch-22" problem. If people don't buy new plants, then stores won ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...