Parks Seeds Came Today
December 13th, 2003 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
Parks is owned by Wayside, which also owns The Cook’s Garden. If they own anything else, let me know. I like to keep track of these liasons. Did you know there are two versions of the Park’s catalog? A bigger one and a smaller one. I think I have the bigger one. It’s 132 pages counting the back cover. The smaller one is under a hundred pages. I’ve never compared the two, though I usually wind up getting both. I’ve never bought an awful lot from Parks. They used to have an early blooming cosmos (was it called Vega? I’ll have to check) but it doesn’t seem to be there anymore. Early bloom in cosmos came to be important to me after I saw my first plants devastated by frost just days after the first bloom. They are not at all frost hardy–don’t even think cold thoughts around them–and they take a while to start blooming, especially if it’s a cool summer, or if you start them in the ground instead of indoors.
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Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. •
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Chan S.
// Dec 19, 2003 at 9:55 pm
Came across this handy dandy listing of gardening company family trees at the Garden Watchdog site (http://gardenwatchdog.com/whoownswhat.php–sorry for the unformatted link), including info on Park and Jung.
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Kathy
// Dec 21, 2003 at 7:23 am
Thanks, Chan! That’s exactly the type of information I was looking for, and now I’ve got it bookmarked.