February is the month when indoor seed-starting takes center stage in the Northern gardening world. It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, ...

A hibiscus with nearly black leaves, a heavy-blooming version of a native pollinator plant, and a tropical that’s cold-tough enough to survive our winters are among the most interesting new perennial ...

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 ...

As you look through all the seed catalogs arriving in your mailbox and dream about the garden season to come, you may find yourself a bit confused about certain terms you find in those catalogs. Some ...

For an early start, here are a few of my favorite seed catalogs from the eastern half of the U.S. There are many other good companies in the West, but the list must be manageable. Most companies have ...

Nurturing food or flowers from seed is uniquely satisfying. “There’s no other flavor like a home garden vegetable,” says George Ball, president of W. Atlee Burpee & Co. in Warminster, Pa., one of the ...

The Great Plant Company, P.O. Box 1041, New Hartford, CT. This is the plant catalog for the connoisseur offering rare and very limited plants available nowhere else. Rare orchids, tropicals, daylilies ...

There's still time to plant a few annuals in your garden before the weather gets too cold, including cold-hardy varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

Was there ever a more pleasant task for the gardener than curling up in an armchair on a dreary winter evening to dream and pick among the latest floral offerings in garden catalogs? Every year an ...

They’re in the mail. Nona Koivula, who as executive director of the National Garden Bureau in Downer’s Grove, Ill., is on everyone’s mailing list, says she received 20 garden catalogs in the first two ...