The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

Tracking down where this 1909 postcard was drawn was so much fun!  This very cool postcard has enough clues to allow identifying the...

In 1896 A. T. Cook was offering Cinnamon Vines as the answer to the nurseryman's prayer for a great selling vine.  He continued cont...

A. T. Cook  was an enthusiastic promoter of his seeds and plants.    P. T. Barnum,  self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbugs”,  comes to mi...

I was thinking about vines for cooling houses after looking at A. T. Cooks colorful lithograph of a vine covered home. This story caught m...

What is leptosiphon? V ick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Floral Guide had these border suggestions for the 1887 gardens. ...

Miss MacDonnell appears to be a formidable woman of many interests, including horticulture and beekeeping.  I first encountered her in t...

I was just tucking some more pansies into large pot when I noticed a  lovely yellow one growing in the ground nearby, from last yea...