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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level ...

Have you received enough garden catalogs in the mail yet? After you get a dozen or so, it becomes hard to decide which seeds to order. I try to pick specialties that are only available from each ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

John Clare of Oak Park, Mich., and his son Daniel, 7, look over his annual collection of seed catalogs, sent to tempt winter-weary gardeners. PHILADELPHIA — Lorraine Altrichter has already plotted ...

Q: This time of year I start getting gardening catalogs galore in my mailbox. I enjoy reading through them, looking and drooling over pictures of beautiful vegetables and reading descriptions of them.

URBANA — 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 ...