Pinetree's New Seed Catalog for 2026

 

 

I'm just finishing up putting the garden to bed, so I'm ready to start dreaming and planning for the 2026 garden year.

Luckily, Pinetree Garden Seeds always has their Catalog for the next season ready to go in late November.  This is actually early, even for them, I think.  I'm ready! 

Here are the first few pages which have their exciting new offerings.

 

 

Visit their site to see all of their seeds, and to place an order.

https://www.superseeds.com/ 

DOA In The Virtual Garden

Here's what looked lovely in the gardening world this week.


From Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Purple Bok Choy.  I've never eaten Bok Choy, but I like the idea of ornamental edibles.   See below for a Baker Creek's Catalog link.

Also from Baker Creek, the Chinese Python Snake Bean, which looks big enough to make a whole side dish from a single bean.

I love lilies, and mine have all fallen prey to digging creatures over time.  These pretty pink lilies via the North American Lily Society make me think I should try some again.

From High Country Gardens, a gaillardia Mesa Peach.  Striking, though not peachy.

Via Gardener Sue's News, I always wanted to grow this plant, but thought all those tiny round tails would fall right off.

Aren't Ornamental Cabbages beautiful?   Here's where I can tell my tale of planting sixteen around the border of a garden one afternoon, and every single one was gone the next morning, sheared off and carried away.  I blamed the rabbits.   Maybe in a raised pot like this they could survive.

Via  Two Women and a Hoe, available from  Bakker

Via the Small Town Gardener, echinacea Granada Gold.  I love the new cone flower varieties, but have not had luck with them making it through the winter.

Via the Old Blue Bucket, wouldn't you love to find even one of these old cupboards?   She says she loves them but can only fit so many into her home, so this is in her potting shed.

Catalogs for the New Season



I'm seeing garden catalogs ready to order so you can dream away the winter.   I'll list them here as I see them.   You may wish to request:


https://www.harrisseeds.com/products/free-organic-seed-catalog

Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company

They have a Whole Seed Catalog for 9.95 that you see on newsstands, (pictured above) or you can request a smaller free version   https://www.rareseeds.com/request-catalogus/

In the Mailbox: R. H. Shumway's 2018 Illustrated Garden Guide

In today's mail, a new catalog for 2018 from R. H. Shumway.  They're celebrating their 148th year.  Owned, according to Dave's Garden by Jung Nursery, they have their own unique personality.

Opening the catalog is like a trip to the past.  Color and black and white drawings fill the pages, and the fonts lend the air of gentler times.  There are many old varieties of seeds and AAS winners of today.  Ha! The catalog pages are huge, and beyond the ability of my scanner to get the entire page.

I like the "Lazy Housewife Pole Bean"  The original heirloom from the 1800s!  One of the first beans to be completely stringless--there is little work or time involved...thus resulting in the name.  Use as a snap, shell or dry bean, depending on when you harvest.  Medium-green pods are 4-5 in. long with distinctive shiny, white seeds.  75-80 days.

Seed Catalog Reviews

I'm suddenly interested in Heirloom Seeds this year so I have requested catalogs from several new companies.  Since I have numerous days of NaBloPoMo left, I thought I would do some catalog reviews.

If you've been gardening as long as I have and you read garden writers with great pleasure, you may be familiar with Katherine S. White.  She was married to E. B. White but her personal claim to fame was writing about gardens and plants and garden catalogs for the New Yorker. These were compiled into Onward and Upward in the Garden, a lovely book.

I can't match her writing of course, but I have always wanted to review garden catalogs.  They are so distinctly written.  Some have beautiful prose and make such a gorgeous picture in your mind (this in addition to the photographs).   The most wondrously described plants and seeds are for vegetables, I feel, because they make your mouth water with those descriptions.  Sometimes.

I'm looking for:

Good writing

Detailed cultural information

When to harvest

How to use

Botanical names as well as common names

New and unusual cultivars

Specialties of the nursery

Garden tools, seed starting supplies

Advice advice advice.

I think I'll do them as they come in which means I'll start tomorrow with Pinetree Garden Seeds catalog.