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’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 ...

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 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 ...

Each winter, gardening catalogs fill mailboxes across the country. Below are some of our favorites. Antique Rose Emporium Antique Rose Emporium: Old garden roses; free catalog. 9300 Lueckemyer, ...

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 ...

There’s something comforting and convenient about the feel of a gardening catalog while you sit near a window on a cold winter day and count the days until spring. Many companies have gone “green,” ...

This is the time of year to page through gardening and seed catalogs and dream about the spring. What are your favorite catalogs and why are they your favorite? We’ll share the results in an upcoming ...

In a recent column, I mentioned that January is National Mail Order Gardening Month and that, if you had not received any gardening catalogs, you should go to www.directgardeningassociation.com to ...

As spring garden catalogs fill the mailbox supplanting holiday missives, life for folks who love to dig in the dirt takes a decided turn. We grab these catalogs with their colorful eye-popping covers ...

January is a tough month for gardeners in Michigan. I depend on seed catalogs and websites to ward off the winter blues. The Botanical Interests web site has instructions how to make seed bombs – a ...