It's that time of year....

It's that time of year....
for seed and plant catalogs. 

You can pore over seed catalogs for months or just head to the garden center in spring to buy what wows you. Either way, you have plenty of options for planning and planting your garden. That includes surfing the internet during these cold winter days.

The year 2020 was an unprecedented boom for gardening. The pandemic created an immense interest and desire to garden and it is expected that a large percentage of new gardeners will continue to dig in the dirt. People have discovered the therapeutic and relaxing hobby of gardening helps them to forget all the negativity going on around them. The downside to this trend is that seeds and plants sold out online and in stores before Easter in 2020.      So start early!

Many companies have gone to online sales and provide their catalogs in digital format only. If you don’t receive all your favorite catalogs in the mail, here are a few of our Master Gardener's favorites. 

Burpee Seed Company

Burpee Seed is one of the most well-know seed companies in the country. They will still mail a copy of their catalog or you can browse through their online version. Their website holds an interesting history of their company and its founder.

Park Seed

Park Seed is one of America's oldest and largest mail-order seed and plant companies, the Geo. W. Park Seed Company, was founded in 1868 by 15-year-old George W. Park in Pennsylvania who sold seeds he had harvested from his backyard garden. Today it is an online-based retailer of live plants, seeds and seed starting supplies. 

Select Seeds

Select Seeds - Antique Flowers offers gardeners a fabulous selection of unique, high-quality flower seeds and plants, specializing in old-fashioned fragrant flowers, flowering vines, and rare annuals and perennials. Many antique flowers are hard-to-find heirlooms, passed from one generation to another. The goal of Select Seeds is to make certain every generation can enjoy the blossoms that were grown yesterday and long before that.

Botanical Interests

Botanical Interests seeks to inspire and educate the gardener in you. Since 1995 they have been supplying gardeners with the highest quality seed in the most beautiful and informative seed packets on the market. Their unique seed packet includes art, garden history, landscape ideas, organic gardening know-how, recipes, fun facts, and of course, high-quality seed.

Bustani Plant Farm

A specialty nursery located in Stillwater, OK, Bustani Plant Farm's motto is ‘Grow Something Different’, but just being different isn’t nearly enough reason for them to grow and offer a plant. Only those that perform well in their garden trials make the grade. In particular, plants that perform well in the heat of summer rate high.

Bluestone Perennials

Bluestone Perennials is an online source for more than 1,000 varieties of perennials, shrubs, mums and ornamental grasses, 150 of them new for 2021. Their website features a plant finder to search by color, soil condition, bloom time, etc. Watch for their discount sales.

Seed Savers Exchange

Seed Savers was founded in Missouri in 1975 to save heirloom tomatoes and morning glories brought from Bavaria by a grandfather. Now based in Iowa, Seed Savers has 13,000 members interested in preserving heirloom varieties and sharing seeds for 20,000 plant varieties.

Ball Seed

Ball Seed sells only wholesale but their online catalog is beautiful.

Enjoy!