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, ...

If tending to gardens carried us through the pandemic, seed catalog are sparks of hope, carrying us through the long winter. Even if you order online, these catalogs can inspire, inform and, yes, ...

As gardeners curl up on the couch each January, dreaming of abundant summer, a war of words rages in that cozy corner of literature inhabited by seed catalogs. It’s your wits against those of seedsmen ...

WARMINSTER, Pa. — The drawback to being a household name is that people tend to take you for granted. Even when you’re W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the company that was first to sell seed through the mail ...

WARMINSTER, Pennsylvania -- If you've ever pulled a Burpee carrot out of the ground, munched on a salad of Burpee iceberg lettuce or sniffed a bouquet of Burpee zinnas, it's because those plants ...

What’s going to be in your garden this summer? Burpee knows. According to the giant seed catalog’s 2015 retail seed forecast, California’s many backyard fruit and vegetable farmers dig tomatoes most ...

The late winter tsunami of garden-seed catalogs flooding local mail boxes is well underway. The closer we get to the changing of seasons, the quicker they come. Any seed company worthy of pitching ...

Ah yes, winter and all its glory. It was Christmas day morning when I ventured outside to get my newspaper and slipped on a patch of ice, breaking my ankle. Painful, yes, but at least it's January and ...

Although the ground was three feet under a mound of white snow, George Ball Jr’s mind was still in the dirt. Explained the president of the Warminster, Bucks County-based W. Atlee Burpee Seed Co., ...