Ready to try something new?(LIFE - HOME)(ANTIQUES)

Washington Times, The, February, 2008

Byline: Ruth Hepner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Gardeners can find solace on a winter's day by shopping the pages of the plant catalogs that have been arriving in the mail since last month. Every year, lots of new plants are available, more usually in the catalogs than in your local garden center because the garden center has to devote the most space to plants for which there is the greatest demand.

This is not bad. Gardeners want plants that have proved to be long-flowering and hardy. We tend to add to our gardens those that have done well in the past. At the same time, it's fun to ...