A note from an old friend is a welcome find in the mailbox. And an unexpected check in the mail can make one’s day. But a flower catalog? Oh, a flower catalog! Amid a damp, dreary winter — with its ...

URBANA — January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently ...

While dreaming up plans for a garden, add seed and plant catalogs to your reading list. Many of the websites on this list ...

The Shepherd’s Garden Seeds catalog, which White Flower Farm bought from founder Renee Shepherd in 1985, will be folded into the White Flower Farm catalog this spring. “Mailing the two catalogs didn’t ...

The colors of the garden catalogs that billow through the mail slot in January can warm the bones and lift the soul. For more experienced gardeners, it doesn’t even take pictures: adjectives are ...

Pee Dee gardeners may be eager to plant, Greg Pryor advises caution, suggests online, print seed catalogs, finding what to plant in spring.

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, ...

With spring still several months away, Colleen Richard won’t be getting her hands in the dirt anytime soon, so she does the next best thing. She sits down with her gardening catalogs and starts to ...

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 ...

Nurseries and flower catalogs are filled with amaryllis, a holiday tradition. But perhaps you've been intimated by the softball-size bulbs. Are the cheerful, bold blooms difficult to grow? "Don't let ...