Photo by Dean Fosdick This is the study where our founder, W. Atlee Burpee, wrote the Burpee annual seed and plant catalogues from 1889, when he bought Fordhook Farm and moved his family up from Philadelphia, until his passing away in 1915. From 1875 to 1888, he wrote them in his small office in the […]
By Lois Burpee Eight years of boarding school and college menus, and four years of stretching the dollar-a-day budget, while sharing an apartment with a sister or friend in the depression years, were a culinary vacuum, with one exception. While at Wellesley College, I was introduced to Chinese food. A group of students who had […]
I served as President of The American Horticultural Society for four years, 1990 to 1993. For the first half of its existence the AHS headquartered in a series of offices in DC, including a second floor walk up over a Chinese restaurant. When I joined in 1989, it occupied River Farm, a spectacular 27-acre estate […]
Most garden perennials flower in spring after the low light season. However, garden annuals bloom during the summer, which is not typical of native plants in North America. Mainly tropical in origin, bedding plants have been the focus of breeding since the residential boom of the 1950s. Annual cultivars descend from plants found near the equator, the only frost-free part of the world. These heat and light lovers…
