The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

Ah...  how could anyone resist   John Lewis Childs' Fall Bulb Catalog?   We plant them because they can be awesome!  I lov...

Y ou can't beat a lithographed catalog for luxuriant surfaces. Your attention can slide down the sweeps of color, twirl around a cu...

W hat can make a lithograph more appealing to me?   Being a bird's eye view of something, that's what!! It is just so much ...

J oin me in luxuriating in the colors and patterns of two of John Lewis Childs magnificent fall seed catalog's lithographs.  I love ...

My mother always bought me a pot of pansies for my birthday so they have become a flower that always makes me feel good when I see them.  W...

When you strip away all the intellectual reasons why I keep poking around in the past after seed related facts and stories, what is left is...