It’s always time to order garden catalogs, whether it’s in spring for summer or fall plants or during the winter in preparation for spring planting. Use catalogs as guides to get the finest products and information for planning purposes whether you want to start from seed or seedlings. You can see what’s new in plants, tools and gardening accessories since gardening companies are always looking for the newest, hardiest plants to offer to their buying public.

By placing your orders early you’ll be sure to get what you want before they run out of the most popular items, whether it’s a repeat of the annuals you’ve always planted or an entirely new vegetable garden. Always make sure you know what your plant hardiness zone is before ordering from out-of-state garden centers. You don’t want your plants to die because they’re not suited to your part of the country. Welcome to our site that will help you accomplish all of this.

NatureHills.com
Omaha, NE is the home of this garden center founded in 2001 as a local tree nursery. Since then, Nature Hills Nursery has evolved to provide everything from seeds to plants and garden supplies. Mostly a family operation, their organic and edible plant section is mouth watering. Look for ferns and ground covers for a shade garden or elegant rose bushes for your table and a multitude of flowering spring and fall bulbs.

For those of you in the country, they have a supply of deer resistant plants and vines. If you need shade, privacy or wind-break trees, check out their hedge and fast growing evergreens, hardwood trees or the ever- beautiful flowering fruit or fall color trees. See them all and don’t miss the tool and watering products section.

Gurneys.com
Operating from Greendale, IN, Gurneys has over 2,000 different items from which to choose. As a top supplier of all types of gardening products, they mail over 40 million catalogs and offer a user-friendly web site. Their web site offers a major tool for those who may be ordering from out-of-state -- a zip code based growing zone locator so that you know that you’ll be ordering seeds and/or plants that will flourish in your area. Gurney’s stocks a complete range of seeds, live plants, bulbs, trees and shrubs as well as garden tools and supplies like the appropriate fertilizer.

If you are in the market for house and patio plants, you’ll find them here as well. Planting your own fruit or vegetable garden is an inexpensive way to get the best and most nutritious produce you and your family deserve. Try an heirloom tomato like the unique Black Krim Tomato or the huge yields of a Golden Rave Hybrid which is as sweet as a grape tomato. Or buy the beautiful red Double Knock Out Rose which, after years of research, is both disease resistant and low maintenance. Have you heard of the Mixed Balloon flower? It’s shaped like a regular balloon, then blossoms into a bell-like flower.

Get their catalog and begin to plan your garden, whether in the ground or in containers. Gurneys will ship the seeds or easy-to-grow plants at the appropriate planting time for your area.

WhiteFlowerFarm.com
In Litchfield, Connecticut, writers William Harris (Fortune Magazine) and wife, Jane Grant (NY Times), turned a barn into a house in the late 1930’s. Nature overtook their desire to write and they developed White Flower Farm. In 1976 the nursery was sold to Eliot Wadsworth who ran the nursery and whose family continues to collect and evaluate plants worldwide for propagation purposes.

The very best are sold through three seasonal catalogs, which is our gain. White Flowers Farm has trained advisers who will help you choose plants for your city and state. They offer hundreds of herbaceous and woody plants from tropical climates which can grow in planters indoors. Their magnificent forced bulb collections can be ordered now for delivery in spring, 2010.

They also have a selection of favorite perennials like hydrangea, lilies and roses among others. Perhaps you’d like to enjoy soft delicate fruits like raspberries. You can grow your own from early summer up until frost. Check out their online catalog for terrific gift ideas for yourself and others. You won’t be disappointed.

I you do gardening because it’s your hobby, your passion or your profession; you undoubtedly have your hands full and you probably need a way to save time as well as money.

So, do your shopping through garden catalogs and avoid having to drive through heavy traffic, avoid having to needlessly waste time at the checkout stand and get a greater variety of seeds, bulbs, plants, trees, and so on and on.

According to my research the following are the top gardening catalogs available today: