Winter offers an ideal opportunity to dream and plan next season’s garden. Catalogs offer an escape into the world of warm weather, green landscapes and flowers, fruits and vegetables. Here are a few ...

January in the Red River Valley of the North gets a bad rap because it's a long, cold month - the coldest on the calendar. But there is a warming factor that happens as regularly as winter sundogs ...

Every year about this time we order our seeds for spring, occasionally tossing in a few plants we can't resist. Last year there were some unexpected successes and the usual disappointments. We had ...

WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA — We couldn’t call it an April Fool's joke as that snow came on April 2. Sure made a mess out of everything out in the farm yard and gravel roads. Guess it was too much to ...

Rose fanciers from 41 countries came together at a recent meeting of the World Federation of Rose Societies to name the English rose ‘Graham Thomas’ as the favorite rose on the planet. Only the 14th ...

They’re in the mail. Nona Koivula, who as executive director of the National Garden Bureau in Downer’s Grove, Ill., is on everyone’s mailing list, says she received 20 garden catalogs in the first two ...

Black-eyed Susan is an easy and satisfying perennial to start from seed. (Stephen Ward) When perusing spring seed catalogs, don't pass on perennials. These long-lived plants require a bit more ...

Trying to choose seeds and bulbs from a gardening catalog is an exercise in restraint. Catalog pages are filled with vibrant colors bursting from morning glories and the unique shapes of dahlia tubers ...