Use Gardening Catalogs to Get a Stunning Garden

Many gardeners experience withdrawal symptoms once the first fall of frost hits and the snow starts falling. No longer can they putter around outside, and they’re forced to remain indoors. Not only that, but their once beautiful yards are now covered under mud, fallen leaves and snow. Gardening catalogs can be a life-saver for those gardeners who experience severe gardening withdrawal. They usually start to come after Thanksgiving and Christmas. By that time the leaf colors have changed and the leaves have fallen. Forecasts of snow are made and the snow rapidly arrives. When the gardening catalog arrives gardeners can take comfort in the fact that spring will arrive soon.

The Burpee Gardening Catalog

Burpee is a gardening catalog that was created in the late 1800s. It’s considered to be the granddaddy of gardening catalogs and came into existance thanks to the company founder, W. Atlee Burpee. Burpee had been publishing a livestock manual for years and decided to add vegetable seed to the book. Burpee’s passion was for innovating and improving livestock through breeding. When his almanac changed into a gardening catalog as well, he included a new, improved cabbage called Surehead, and imroved carrot called Long Orange, altered radishes and green beans.

Today the Burpee catalog is full of an amazing assortment of vegetables herbs, bulbs, gardening supplies, annual and perennial flowers and seed starting equipment. When the weather is cold and not suitable for gardening, the Burpee features gifts for gardeners, and wreaths and green.

The Smith & Hawken Catalog

Since 1979 the Smith & Hawken gardening catalog occupies the opposite end of the spectrum of gardening catalogs. This one has been selling high quality and sometimes costly garden furniture, accessories and gifts. The catalog also sells plants including orchids, a variety of bulbs and cypress trees in planters. These miniature cypress trees in planters cost from $29 to $39.

Smith & Hawken sells many gifts for gardeners. These include pruners and gloves, gardening clogs, and tool caddies. This gardening catalog has unique items such as weather-monitoring gadgets. With the increased interest in climate change, these weather-monitoring gadges are becoming very popular. Smith & Hawken sells firepits and outdoor games, like croquet and bocce ball as well.