Last week I wrote about ordering seeds from catalogs. This week I'd like to turn to ordering plants. It's amazing what they can send in the mail these days! They can ship cut flowers, bulbs, fragile ...

It’s always fun when garden catalogs arrive in the mail. Mine generally start to arrive in December and continue through February. In the evening when things slow down, you will find me drooling over ...

Are more gardeners in my shade-blocked predicament these days? To my joy, since I garden under very large trees, plants that get by on minimal sun seem more plentiful in this year's offerings. Check ...

Trees grown in pots end up with a root system that is coiled up in the shape of the pot, constricting growth once the roots are in the ground. Even if you cut them apart and uncoil them, as any ...

There's the garden season, and then there's the garden catalog season. Right now we're deep into the latter, with glossy new catalogs arriving daily. Because it's been just long enough to forget last ...