As we crotchety old folks are wont to do, I long for the olden days, back when my mailbox, the steel one out by the road, was stuffed spring and fall with catalogs and bulky press kits. Now I get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level ...

Garden catalogs provide a wealth of information about plants, seeds, and gardening tools. Gardeners should carefully review catalog descriptions, including planting instructions and days to maturity, ...

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 ...

Who needs a tropical winter vacation when there are seed catalogs to browse! Traveling through the pages of vegetable and flower catalogs is midwinter garden therapy at its finest. Last week’s column ...

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 ...

I thought I'd put the garden on the back burner, finally gotten my fingernails clean and set aside a stack of books to read over the coming dark days. Finally the garden and I were put to bed -- or so ...

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 ...