Signing the Safe Seed Pledge is entirely voluntary and totally unregulated, but it’s a very safe bet that any company that has signed the pledge and published it in their catalogs and website is committed to the cause. It reads: “Agriculture and seeds provide the basis upon which our ...
If you enjoy paging through the latest garden catalogs and daydreaming about all the plants you’d like to add to your garden, how about trying it with catalogs that are 50, 100, or even 200 years old? Thanks to several dedicated members of the Historic Iris Preservation Society, catalogs...
For example, you’ve probably noticed that seed pods can form on your tulips, lilies, and other bulbs if you don’t deadhead them after flowering – but how do those seeds end up as bulbs six or eight inches underground, without a gardener to plant them there? The fascinating answer invo...
From the late 1800s well into the 20th century, the John Lewis Childs Seed Company was one of the largest mail-order nurseries in the country, and its catalogs were richly illustrated. Janine enclosed copies of the catalog’s ten pages of dahlias, too. “So many!” she wrote. “Are ...