The W. Atlee Burpee & Co. is taking note of gardeners like Natal. Long regarded as the 800-pound gorilla of American seed companies, Burpee has diversified into live plants and even retail stores.

W. Atlee Burpee is a name that many gardeners will recognize quickly, and a name that all gardeners should know. The “W” ...

Rounding out the top 10 California choices are beans, lettuce, sweet corn, watermelon and radishes. Overall, vegetables make up roughly 60% of Burpee’s seed orders every year, followed by ...

Other historical Burpee agricultural and horticultural breakthroughs have included Golden Bantam corn, in 1902, the world’s first yellow sweet corn, and Iceberg lettuce in 1894, the world’s ...

Burpee Exclusive. 'Ultra Violet' Hybrid Corn The source that introduced yellow sweet corn to American gardens now offers ... Burpee Gardening Sparks Joy With 2024 Seed Varieties. Burpee Gardening ...

Today, Fordhook Farm is the heart and soul of the W. Atlee Burpee Company, one of the leading seed breeding companies in the world. Wide lawns surround the 1700s-era farmhouse, built of fieldstone ...

Burpee’s 910,000 mail-order home garden customers bought nearly 7,000,-000 packets of seeds last year, ranging from Surecrop stringless wax beans (20¢) to the Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower hand ...

Baker Creek, which now has nearly 1,300 varieties of seed, was built with some of the very old European strains that Burpee’s first customers must have known.

WARMINSTER, Pa., Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Burpee Gardening is making gardening more bountiful and more beautiful than ever with the unveiling of an exciting line-up of new varieties for ...