By January, seed and plant catalogs arrive at your mailbox (or email ... and perennials helpful when deciding which plants to select for your garden. A “hardy annual” would likely resist a light frost ...

Printed seed catalogs have been around since the mid ... Leucanthemum), the showy summer annual with brightly colored flowers (African daisy, Osteospermum), or maybe another plant with a similar ...

It’s seed catalog season again — the most glorious time of the year — and Eliza Blue couldn't be more excited.

Yes, there are online catalogs, but there’s something special about sitting down in front of the fireplace in a cozy chair and dreaming about your future garden with a pile of seed catalogs.

After the holidays, I find it easy to slide into the winter doldrums, as I anticipate the long nippy weeks before the spring.

January evenings are best spent sitting close to the woodstove while the snow blows and the wind howls outside. Before the ...

After a lovely winter break, I returned to the office with a stack of seed catalogs begging me to order more seeds ... or any spot where you may have grown a pot of annual flowers in the past. Tomato ...

When to plant seeds Follow seed packet or catalog instructions, as each species has its own requirements. In Minnesota, annual flowers and heat-loving vegetables such as tomato, pepper and eggplant ...

Printed seed catalogs have been around since the mid ... oregano and chives are a few of the herbs that can be winter-sown. And annual flowers such as nasturtium and snapdragon are also good ...