`New names will lead us to a new universe of customers’ Call it cross-pollination of the e-commerce kind. Burpee Holding Co., the parent company of the W. Atlee Burpee gardening catalog, has acquired ...

Seeds and plants mailer W. Atlee Burpee & Co. may be more than 128 years old, but it’s hip to the current low-carb diet craze. The Warminster, PA-based cataloger is promoting its low-carbohydrate ...

Snow may be on the ground today, but it won’t be there forever. So, why let it get you down? Brew up a nice mug of hot tea, sit back, relax and let your fingers do the walking through some seed and ...

As gardeners curl up on the couch each January, dreaming of abundant summer, a war of words rages in that cozy corner of literature inhabited by seed catalogs. It’s your wits against those of seedsmen ...

As spring garden catalogs fill the mailbox supplanting holiday missives, life for folks who love to dig in the dirt takes a decided turn. We grab these catalogs with their colorful eye-popping covers ...

I hadn't been back to Fordhook Farm, the ancestral home of the W. Atlee Burpee family, since the summer of 1992, when I fell in love with a zucchini called 'Roly Poly.' So I dropped by recently to ...

Rooted in industry trends and cultural insights, Burpee’s GardenCast aims to inspire happiness, tranquility and good health through gardening. WARMINSTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Burpee, the leader in ...

What’s going to be in your garden this summer? Burpee knows. According to the giant seed catalog’s 2015 retail seed forecast, California’s many backyard fruit and vegetable farmers dig tomatoes most ...

WARMINSTER, Pa. — The drawback to being a household name is that people tend to take you for granted. Even when you’re W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the company that was first to sell seed through the mail ...

Burpee Seeds has a long history in the American mail-order seed business. The Burpees date to the late 1800s as a prominent Philadelphia family. W. Atlee Burpee was born in 1858 and was expected to ...