Nursery catalogs are inexpensive, stuffed with current information and are an education as well as a sales tool. These two have been out on my desk since the day they arrived, since I use them as ...

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 ...

Come late winter, newspaper garden writers routinely deliver a column about plant and seed catalogs. I sympathize. There’s not a ton to write about, with the ground half-frozen and the sun still low ...

I love decorating kids’ rooms. You can decorate around a theme, and add great accessories, many of which can be purchased at the toy store (my kind of shopping). I must admit, though, I’m not as fond ...

Winter is a great time for planning improvements to your garden with seed, bulb and nursery catalogs arriving in the mail. There are many temptations in these catalogs, so focus on choosing plants ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A new crop of plant catalogs has ushered in another gardening year, many promising a bit of Eden with a portrait of this tasty vegetable or that pretty flower. Among them, but sporting a cartoon cover ...

How lucky we are to be offered such a diversity of plants at such convenience. But do be careful, in winter, of succumbing to planting a "very hardy, drought resistant and rapid growing tree" ...