Dream Time: The Plant Catalogs Are Here!
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Georgene A. Bramlage
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» ______MarcellaGM - Stacks?
Stacks? My catalogs are all over the place, including my car. I always worry about it breaking down and being stuck in it with nothing to read. Actually, I do have stacks of old catalogs, stored in boxes in the garage. Hey, sometimes you need to look up a plant that used to be in a catalog and now cannot be found anywhere.-- posted by ______MarcellaGM
» Carol Wallace - Good idea, Marcella!
I need to put some of my catalogs in the car, too. Hey -you never know! Let's see - some by the bed, a few in each bathroom, a bunch on the kitchen table, some in the living room, some in the car, more at the office - where else might we need a quick fix?-- posted by Carol Wallace
» Margot - Stacks and stacks
I have a big, old, wooden milk crate, full already. And that's just for `99.I love to sit, on a snowy day and make lavish lists of my dream plants. Of course I don't have enough land for every thing i want. But t IS fun to make those lists.
I save all of the cataloges. I keep them n boxes. Some of the beautiful pages become wrapping paper, framed pictures, cut ups for decopauge and lots of other things. I rarely have much to get rid of when I'm done with them.
-- posted by Margot
» ______MarcellaGM - Old catalogs
A few years ago my local Rose society had a well known and favorite Rosarian as a guest speaker. In fact we have him at least once a year. His presentations are always very informative and entertaining as well. I believe on of my all time favorites was when he arrived with a couple of boxes of old rose catalogs and proceeded to talk about varieties that had stood the test of time and roses that had been lost. Afterwards we got to look through his old catalogs, some of them dating from the turn of the century. He told us he couldn't resist catalogs.-- posted by ______MarcellaGM
» Carol Wallace - Old Catalogs
I think that would be my favorite,too. Think of the information you canglean from old,old catalogs. What people were planting in a givenyear. What was available. What we no longer even recognize!Whenever I see a used book dealer offering old catalogs I am mightily tempted to buy them - especially knowing that the price ofthe catalog is all I can possibly spend.
-- posted by Carol Wallace
» Cottage_Garden - I have old gardening magazines, too.
The space they take up is rediculous and I can never remember where I saw whatever it is I'm looking for. Sometimes I want a picture to show someone else what I'm thinking of, or I'm just trying toremember better how I have seen something done and sometimes I'm just looking for inspiration. Half the time the ads are as good as the magazine part!-- posted by Cottage_Garden
» Margot - old cataloges and mags.
I find the really old rose cataloges come in very handy when I'm given a cutting from my great aunts (both in their 90's & still gardening). They don't remember what variety they are. The old cataloges do.I too have crates of old gardning mags. It'f really fun to look through them to see what used to be THE new plantings. Ones that are very common now. You can also find some great tips, from years ago. Tips folks havent passed down. So they end up being new tips to me.
-- posted by Margot
» Cottage_Garden - How do you keep track of what's what/where?
I am considering a hanging file system for the current catalogs; I have been tearing up old magazines to preserve the articles/photos I want to keep and then throwing out the rest. The clippings are a slippery mess!-- posted by Cottage_Garden
» Cottage_Garden - Re: How do you keep track of what's what/where?
In response to message posted by Cottage_Garden:
It's funny, but after all this time I am still battling catalog madness. Luckily, planting season is nearly here so I can go to the nurseries and see the plants and bring them home with me -- no more of that maddening waiting waiting waiting for an order to arrive! They just jump into my arms and fling themselves into the car for a quick trip home. hehehe
-- posted by Cottage_Garden
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Georgene A. Bramlage
- Re: Old catalogs
Hi all! Just read through the last little bit of messages posted in this discussions and feel the urge to comment!
I believe on of my all time favorites was when he arrived with a couple of boxes of old rose catalogs and proceeded to talk about varieties that had stood the test of time and roses that had been lost. Afterwards we got to look through his old catalogs, some of them dating from the turn of the century. He told us he couldn't resist catalogs. This idea from Marcella's posting way back in 1998 is a great one! And one I hope to make more use of in the future.
From Ellen in 1998 comes this: ...save all of the cataloges. I keep them in boxes. Some of the beautiful pages become wrapping paper, framed pictures, cut ups for decopauge and lots of other things. I rarely have much to get rid of when I'm done with them.
What fantastic ideas! I've posters & colored newsprint for wrapping paper, but never thought of catalog papges.
Ellen, if you are still around in cyberspace would you please tell us, either here or on the Art & Crafts Community of Interest pages, how you go about doing decoupage? I've laminated beautiful postcards with pictures of plants (& family photos) for my grandchildren, but decoupage catalog pictures might also work fine.
As for the present time... I try to have a collection of current season's catalogs nearby in a basket where they are set upright like in a file. I try to maintain a limit of 12...of course there are always a few very speciality plant collection catalogs in with the collection. And of course, there are many out there which I don't receive because I don't order from the concerns as frequently as they'd like.
I try to conquer the clutter by keeping a box nearby to use to toss those not on my list and the duplicates. These I take into community service classes that I teach or to garden club exchanges. If there are still any around...they go to the recycling center. Our little town happens to have a very fine one.
I also keep stacks of past seasons catalogs of firms I really like or whose catalogs I feel can do better than the local recycling center.
Cheers to all...the snow is almsot gone here in my garden in western MA
-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage
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