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 ...

It started about a month ago, by mail. Then a week later another one arrived and then another. By last week, garden catalogs were arriving in full force from many of the large and small nurseries ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, I would receive dozens of gardening catalogs in my work in-box. Garden catalogs are a lot like fashion magazines. The photos represent the ideal — with perfect lighting, zero bug ...

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 and en ...

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 ...

It may be a little too early to break out the gardening shovels, but it’s the perfect time to stack plant and seed catalogs next to your favorite reading chair. Fortunately, most mail-order places ...

Albuca spiralis ‘Frizzle Sizzle’ is a new-to-us plant in the amaryllis family with fragrant, daffodil-like blooms. ( Amy Davis - Baltimore Sun ) Steve Bender remembers winters in his University of ...

Gardening catalogs are more than just mail-order sources. They are some of the best ways to learn about the different varieties of daffodils, roses, peonies, tulips, vines, groundcovers, annuals, ...