Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the rush to get planting, it’s easy for gardeners to be seduced by a beautiful photo or illustration on the front of a seed packet. Instead of judging a ...

In the depths of winter, looking through a seed catalog is the gardener’s equivalent of planning a summer vacation—a chance to fantasize about warmer days ahead. What's even more fun is getting the ...

Each of Botanical Interests' seed packets displays an artists' illustration of the flower or vegetable. Those illustrations are created by artists with the Denver Botanic Gardens' School of Botanic ...

Botanical artist Carolyn Crawford started drawing illustrations of the plant world in 1981. Shortly afterward, the Denver Botanic Gardens featured her work in an exhibit. At first, she used pastel ...

BROOMFIELD — Botanical Interests Inc., a Broomfield seller of vegetable, herb and flower seed packets, has been acquired by San Diego-based Epic Gardening, a media platform with gardening content and ...

January is a tough month for gardeners in Michigan. I depend on seed catalogs and websites to ward off the winter blues. The Botanical Interests web site has instructions how to make seed bombs – a ...

Artist Giselle Potter illustrated the Tom Thumb Peas Art Pack for Hudson Valley Seed Company. Artist Gabe Brown's abstract watercolor and colored pencil interpretation for echinacea. Sometimes what’s ...

The seed catalogs are arriving almost daily now, and the annual dog-earing of pages and highlighting of items has begun. While I buy some of my seeds from local nurseries every year (I can find ...

In the depths of winter, looking through a seed catalog is the gardener’s equivalent of planning a summer vacation—a chance to fantasize about warmer days ahead. What's even more fun is getting the ...