Catalog review

Odyssey Bulbs on Martha Stewart

by Kathy Purdy on February 10, 2008

Gardening at first felt like a natural pleasure, and then it became a necessary one.
Laurie Lisle

Gardening catalog deals and deadlines for 2007

by Kathy Purdy on January 5, 2007

Seeing a plant that you have known only in catalogues is like recognizing a celebrity in a crowd.
Elizabeth Lawrence

A Vegetable Wishlist

by Kathy Purdy on December 14, 2006

The biggest crocuses are also excellent for gardeners who fear they are themselves getting almost too refined to breathe.
Henry Mitchell

A Tale of Two Cities. . .I mean, Catalogs

by Talitha Purdy on January 11, 2006

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
George Eliot

Potatoes

by Talitha Purdy on January 11, 2006

Intensive gardening, biodynamic bed-building, and every other gardening technique will seriously insult your imagination if you follow every step blindly. Every gardener should experiment and adapt.
Sandra Perrin

Snowdrop Race

by Kathy Purdy on January 5, 2006

Gardeners always delight in doing something that another gardener says can't be done.
Elizabeth Lawrence

While I’m thinking of it . . .

by Kathy Purdy on December 6, 2005

In the end, this may be the most important thing about frost: Frost slows us down. In spring, it tempers our eagerness. In fall, it brings closure and rest. In our gotta-go world--where every nanosecond seems to count--slowness can be a great gift. So rather than see Jack Frost as an adversary, you could choose to greet him as a friend.
Philip Harnden

Can you believe it?

by Kathy Purdy on October 1, 2005

We have to stand still in a garden and listen to its rhythms, look for the signs and symbols and meanings, hear its utterances. We have to look down and up, notice the needles and the haystacks.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

You never know who’s listening. . .

by Talitha Purdy on June 25, 2005

To visit a garden properly is a demanding business; most visitors simply don't have the time.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

Cool!

by Talitha Purdy on March 3, 2005

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke

Fedco Seeds

by Rosemarie Hanson on January 6, 2004

Winter is the icicle in the soul of the gardener.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

Seed sources for Frostbite Falls, ID

by Judy Miller on January 5, 2004

Despite these losses and setbacks, like King Sisyphus, gardeners forever keep rolling that rock up the hill, convinced we are progressing toward the day it will stay in place up there and not roll back on us, the day our gardens will be just as we want them.
Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II

Seeds

by Talitha Purdy on January 5, 2004

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
George Eliot

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