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 ...

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

Seed catalogs have much in common with priceless Monet paintings. His art, often depicting nature, became famous for the ability to capture the viewer's mind and transport one mentally into the scene.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oh, how gardeners look forward to seed-catalog time. The purveyors of these publications know this, and in the depths of winter when cabin fever is at its height they send these emissaries to spread ...

Gardening catalogs drive me crazy yet keep me sane this time of year. The yellow-orange blooms of Summer’s Kiss Gaillardia on the cover of Park’s Countryside Gardens’ catalog make me want to bolt ...