May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.

– Neil Gaiman

"January is the quietest month in the garden… But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening."

– Rosalie Muller Wright

 "Leaving a bookstore is hard, especially on a day in January, when the ice is treacherous, the wind is blowing, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth."

- Jane Smiley

"There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogs."

- Hal Borland

​"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential." ―Ellen Goodman

 "JANUARY,

The first month of the year,

A perfect time to start all over again,

Changing energies and deserting old moods,

New beginnings, new attitudes."

―Charmaine J. Forde

• Watching the Rose Parade on New Year's Day
• Watching the last of the football games and the plethora of basketball games​
• Building a snow family
• Unthawing frozen pipes
• Making New Year's Resolutions that you hope will last
• Breaking those same Resolutions the next week or day
• Poring over seed catalogs and anticipating the planting season
• Curling up with a mug of hot chocolate or coffee with a favorite book
• Trying to organize our drawers, cabinets, and lives to be more productive in the New Year
• Realizing that organization can be highly overrated
• Shortening that long walk you were planning to take because it is colder than you thought
• Eating a lot of soup in celebration of National Soup Month
• Celebrating the life cut short of one of the 20th Century greatest leaders
• Giving blood, after all it is National Blood Donor Month
• Looking for the first signs of  blooms such as crocus, snowdrops, winter jasmine, and Lenten Rose
• Realizing that the days may be cold but at least the sun is out longer each day
• Planning your garden from the comfort of your favorite chair or sofa
• Feeding the birds and enjoying the color and activity they bring to your landscape
• Enjoying a cup of hot tea with your oatmeal
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​The winter landscape may not allow you to plant yet, but there is nothing like a good seed catalog to set you to planning and dreaming.  Right click on the links in red below to visit some of the more popular one.

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Free Catalog - Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

The 2023 Whole Seed Catalog features our full collection of heirloom varieties from around the world, as well as gorgeous new photographs, recipes, seed 

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Free Vegetable & Flower Seed Catalogs - Harris Seeds

Request your free vegetable and flower seed catalogs from Harris Seeds. Browse hundreds of varieties tested by growers. No charge and the shipping is free!

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Our selection of houseplants varies from week to week.  Each week we get in a new selection to augment those that were left over from the previous week.  Usually we received new plants on Monday of each week, but holidays and such often disrupt that schedule.  We have plants in 4" pots, 6" pots, 8" pots, and 10" pots.  If you have need of a larger houseplant, let us know, and we will  check with our suppliers on availability.  Each month look for information and tips on some of the more common houseplants.  Here are 3 to consider if your are looking to adding more live plants to inside your home.

Peace Lily

This is one of the most common type of indoor plants. All you have to do to maintain the white flowers is to keep the soil moist, mist it regularly, and give it a monthly feed. It prefers indirect sunlight but needs many hours of light each day to produce more flowers.

This plant makes a great gift for someone prepared to listen to it.

Difficulty: 4/10

Philodendron

Philodendron plant is a great climber which enjoys indirect sunlight. If it’s unhappy with its light levels, the leaves will be spaced far apart. If it’s getting too much water, the leaves will turn yellow. Happily, the plant recovers very well from both of these mistakes.

Difficulty: 2/10

.Snake Plant

Snake plants are famous for cleaning the air. They also grow a lot faster than some of the other common indoor plants on this list.

They prefer to be watered moderately from the bottom of the pot so the leaves stay dry, but they’ll tolerate most light conditions as long as they’re not getting baked by the sun.

Difficulty: 1/10

A few from the first week of January's selection of  houseplants currently in stock: