Shivering as you get your daily mail, you may just be rewarded with a sure sign of spring – garden catalogs. Chances are, if you get one, you’ll get many. Like a breath of fresh air, these beautiful ...

Garden catalogs originated many years ago and in their infancy were somewhat crude, but contained gardening information that was regarded as very helpful. Over time, improvements have been significant ...

More than 50 years after she started writing them, Katharine White's essays in 'Onward and Upward in The Garden' still charm and provoke. Among the consolations of a New England winter are the seed ...

Although there is no meteorological evidence that a near-sighted rodent, namely the groundhog, has any skill predicting long-term weather, it's a wonderful tradition. So, just in case, let's hope ...

It’s time to curl up with a blanket, cup of tea and daydream a little — about warm spring days, summer breezes and lush green gardens. Visions turn into living color when you relax with a gardening ...

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 middle of a long, cold winter, it warms a gardener’s heart to find the mailbox packed with seed and plant catalogs. I recently received a trio of them from the granddaddy of the seed companies, ...

NEW MARKET, Va. - Maybe there should be an Academy Awards kind of event for people who create seed and garden catalogs. They have entertained and enlightened generations of growers with their prose ...

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

The art in these catalogs is often highly elaborate. In 17th-century catalogs such as the Florilegium of Dutch nurseryman Emanuel Sweert (1552-1612), plants are usually etched side by side in ...

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, ...