Old House Journal, “Savoring Dahlias,” by Scott Kunst, June 2008. Starting on page 24, you’ll find Scott spreading the good word about heirloom dahlias. His article includes a list of eight favorites you can plant this spring “to enjoy 200 years of dahlia history in your own back yard.”.

Pittsburg Post Gazette, “Bloomin’ Business: Mail-Order Nursery Owner Has Watched Demand Blossom for Heirloom Bulbs,” by Susan Banks, April 5, 2008. Between lectures in Pittsburg, Scott zipped downtown to the Post-Gazette newsroom to chat with garden editor (and OHG customer) Susan Banks. To eavesdrop a bit (so to speak), read Susan’s excellent article at post-gazette.com/pg/08096/870624-47.stm.

Country Home, “’Tis the Season,” by Katherine Whiteside, Dec. 2007. CH’s garden editor writes: “I reach for Scott Kunst’s Old House Gardens, a fabulous mail-order catalog packed with authentic heirlooms and vintage bloomers. Order bulbs for friends from the same decade as their house was built. . . . You’ll have your gift-buying all wrapped up before the holidays.”

Veranda, “Heirloom Dahlias,” by Katherine Whiteside, Oct. 2007. In the 20th anniversary issue of this luxury lifestyle magazine, Katherine writes of the history and joys of dahlias, with eight photos from our trial garden.

American Horticulturist, “Havens for Heirlooms,” by Steve Dryden, Sept.-Oct. 2007. We’re honored to be the lead example in this American Horticultural Society article about “a few special nurseries and seed companies [for whom] preserving the history and beauty of heirloom plants is a labor of love.”

Grand Rapids Press, “Heirloom Bulbs Dig Into Memories,” by John Hogan, Sept. 9, 2007. Focusing on our bulbs and Scott’s grandparents, John suggests planting heirloom bulbs as a perfect way to celebrate Grandparents’ Day.

Horticulture, “My Time-Capsule Bulb Garden,” by Marty Ross, Sept., 2007. “My husband and I are the curators of a little bulb museum, on our very typical 60-by-120-foot lot in an older neighborhood in Kansas City.” So begins this charming essay by Marty Ross in the September Horticulture that's sure to strike a resounding chord with old-bulb lovers everywhere. “We live on McGee Street,” she continues, “and we call our museum the Hortus Bulborum McGeeinsis.” You can read it all at Horticulture’s website where it’s been oddly re-titled “Building a Bulb Collection.”

The English Garden, “Plant Save,” by Christine Jamieson, Sept. 2007. Widely distributed in the US, this lovely British publication gives us a nice little plug, illustrated with our photo of ‘Insulinde’, and includes us every month now in their list of recommended sources.

Mobile Press-Register, “Shifting with the Gulf Coast’s seasons”, by Bill Finch, Aug. 17, 2007. Old House Gardens has “THE best selection of Gulf Coast-adapted bulbs,” according to Bill, Mobile’s favorite gardener. “Start with Grand Primo, Campernelle (the Mardi Gras lily), Carlton, St. Keverne, and Thalia for bloom . . . from the first week in February through the last weeks of March. Complement narcissus gold with Spanish bluebells, and for dry, well-drained soils, consider Scott’s Bulb of the Year, the candy-stripe tulip, Tulipa clusiana. Yes, it really does return and bloom every spring in Mobile.”

Ann Arbor News, “Bulbs at Bursting Point, Gardens Seek New Turf,” by Judy McGovern, July 11, 2007. Our search for a small farm to move our ever-growing business to hit the front page of our local paper, with a big photo of Scott amid the cannas and the author calling us “the Zingerman’s of the bulb world.”

Horticulture, “Plant This: Dahlia ‘Kaiser Wilhelm’,” by Scott Kunst, May 2007. With a full-page, larger-than-life-size photo, Horticulture’s monthly “favorite plant” feature throws the spotlight on our Spring 2007 Bulb of the Year.

The Martha Stewart Show, “Summer Bulbs,” April 12, 2007. Martha singled us out for praise in this segment, holding up our catalog and saying warmly, “These are wonderful heirloom bulbs.” We’re also listed as one of her favorite bulb sources at marthastewart.com . Thanks, Martha!

Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Friends, “Heirloom Bulbs,” by Scott Kunst, April 2007. These two great UM institutions hit the century mark this year, and our heirloom bulbs are part of the celebration — blooming in the conservatory, showcased in this front-page newsletter article, and for sale at the annual plant sale May 4-6.

Garden Gate, “Scott Kunst on Growing Spectacular Glads,” by Jim Childs, Jan.-Feb. 2007. To kick off every issue, Garden Gate features a well-known expert talking about a topic of special interest. This time, we’re honored to say, it’s our own Scott Kunst sharing his tips for growing glads in pots, perennial borders, and throughout your garden.

From the Associated Press, “Rare Plants Make Great Stocking Stuffers,” by Dean Fosdick, Nov. 15, 2006. Dean explores the growing demand for rare and expensive plants. “Pleasure gardens are becoming treasure gardens,” he writes, and he quotes extensively from the leaders of two of the country’s favorite mail-order nurseries, Burpee and Old House Gardens!

Newsday, “Middle Ages: Saved by the Bulbs,” by Irene Virag, Oct. 1, 2006. Irene delves into our story with empathy and flair, starting with Scott’s childhood love of fossils and his grandmother’s garden. Tulipa acuminata “looks like a daddy longlegs,” she writes, and our spring 2007 Bulb of the Year, ‘Kaiser Wilhelm’, is “more than just a flower. It’s history.”

The Wall Street Journal, “Coming to Your Backyard: A Nearly Extinct Tree,” by Bart Ziegler, Sept. 20, 2006. Bart uses the Wollemi pine as a jumping off point to explore the “growing vogue” for preserving both wild and heirloom plants in home gardens — and uses us as one of his prime examples.

Christian Science Monitor, “The Indiana Jones of Heirloom Bulbs,” by April Austin, Sept. 13, 2006. The headline made us laugh, but April’s article about Scott and our bulbs in this highly regarded national newspaper is both thorough and terrific. Read it!

The Germinatrix at dominomag.com, “Heirloom Treasures,” by Ivette Soler, Aug. 21, 2006. Domino magazine (Conde Nast's hip “guide to living with style”) recently named us one of their “Sites We Love”, and their blunt, funny garden-blogger Ivette Soler had some kind things to say about us, too. She starts off: “I’m in the throes of plant lust. I just received a copy of Old House Gardens’ catalog. I have to sneak it into the house so my husband doesn’t see it. I hide it in last month’s Vanity Fair. He thinks I’m reading about the difficulty of being Hilary Swank, but I’m planning on acquiring some serious heirloom bulbs.” Read (and laugh) more at dominomag.com/magazine/blogs/germinatrix .

Mobile Press-Register, “Countdown to Spring,” by Bill Finch, July 21, 2006. Mobile’s garden guru reports on the success he’s had with our “Gulf Coast All-Star narcissus” and both Freesia alba and the candystick tulip, Tulipa clusiana, which has “come bursting out of the ground three springs in a row, each year better than the last.”

Plants & Gardens News, “Glads for Glad Haters,” by Scott Kunst, spring 2006. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden invited Scott to write this piece about small-flowered glads for their “Plants with Pizzazz” column, and of course he said yes!

Garden Design, “Bulb Rebirth,” by Eliot Tozer, April 2006, page 22. For over 50 years, Eliot has been writing about gardening and gardeners, and we’re proud that he chose to write about us. In this snappy little article he tells our story and plugs the virtues of heirlooms.

Washington Post, “If It Ain’t Broke, You’re Missing Out,” by Adrian Higgins, April 20, 2006. “I am enjoying my own tulipomania this spring,” the Post’s garden columnist reports in this wonderfully long article about his adventures growing our true broken tulips. He calls them “beguiling, . . . stunning, . . . a floral cabaret.”

Gardens Illustrated, “Mellow Yellow,” by Rob Cassy, April 2006. Six pages of this posh British monthly are devoted to our friend Josephine Dekker, “a legend in the world of historic daffodils.” We’re proud to be the only US source for Josephine’s treasures.

Horticulture, “Invisible Picking,” by Scott Kunst, April 2006, pages 4-6. Horticulture opens this issue with Scott’s tips on what to cut for spring bouquets and how to do it “invisibly.” His three rules: Small is Beautiful, One is Plenty, and Pick the Unexpected.

Garden Gate, “Top Picks: New Plants 2006,” by Sherri Ribbey, March-April 2006, page 22. Two of the Gate’s eleven “top picks” are our small-flowered glads ‘Starface’ [currently unavailable] and ‘Melodie’.

Garden Design, “The Way Hot 100,” by Jenny Andrews, March 2006. Garden Design asks top designers and horticulturists to name the plants they’re most excited about. This year three are bulbs we offer: Formosa lily, red spider lily, and Tulipa clusiana.

Mobile Register, “The Bulb Search,” by Bill Finch, Jan. 27, 2006. Environmental editor Finch says “There’s only one catalog you can trust to guide you to bulbs that grow well and bloom year after year in the coastal South,” and that’s us! Check out his great article on “Winter Narcissus,” too, including our ‘Grand Primo’ which “no gardener should be without.”

Gardening How-To, “New Varieties 2006,” Mary Pestel, Feb. 2006. Only three bulbs made GHT’s annual “best new plants” article, and we’re proud that one is our petite, Victorian-style ‘Bibi’ gladiolus.

Multichannel Merchant, “Sprucing Up Old House Gardens,” by Lois Boyle and Kevin Kotowski, Nov. 2005. The bible of the catalog industry critiques one catalog a month, and this month that wasn’t L.L. Bean or Pottery Barn but us! The experts gave us lots of praise (“world class” keeps echoing through our heads) as well as lots of great advice.

TheGardenersApprentice.com, “Beauty of Bath,” by Betsy Ginsburg, Nov. 2005. Betsy puts on her detective cap and journeys back to Edwardian England to figure out how this glorious tulip got its name. It’s an entertaining, evocative story!

Garden Compass, Sept. 2005, “Scentsational Antique Freesia,” by John Bagnasco. This California magazine is so good we wish they’d launch a Midwest edition! John distills the essential history and pleasures of our original freesia.

The Capital Times, Madison, WI, “The Artful Shopper: Tulip Tribute,” by Linda Brazill, Aug. 20, 2005. Rembrandt’s 400th birthday is coming up soon, and Linda suggests planting some of our “cream of the crop” tulips as “a birthday tribute worthy of the great artist.”

North Coast Journal, Humboldt County, California, “The Beauty of Diseased Tulips,” by Amy Stewart, May 26, 2005. In this breezy, entertaining piece, Amy educates gardeners about our “exquisite . . . decadent” broken tulips. (And she loves our email newsletter!)

Traditional Home, “Dahlia Delirium” by Ethne Clark, April 2005, pp. 108-113. With a full-page photo of ‘Juanita’ taken in our trial garden, this fine article about our dahlias includes a special sampler we put together just for TH readers.

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens’ Plants and Garden News, “An Heirloom Border,” by Joan McDonald, spring 2005. This simple plan includes classic heirloom bulbs and other plants in a graceful early-spring to summer display – and we’re their featured source! Joan writes, “In this age of cloned pets and genetically altered food, there’s an ‘unmessed with’ quality about heirlooms that I find comforting and reassuring.” (July 2005)

The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS, “Michigan Gardener Cultivates Beauty,” by Felder Rushing, Feb. 9, 2005. Felder Rushing is one of the funniest guys in horticulture, and passionate about getting more people to have fun gardening. We’re proud to call him a friend. He visited us recently, picked our brains for his new edition of Passalong Plants, and then wrote this pensive column about OHG and our “fashion-dormant” bulbs that he says are “ready to spice” contemporary gardens.

Garden Gate, Top Picks for 2005,” by Glen Siebert, Feb. 2005. This cover article showcases just two bulbs, and one is our ‘Arab Queen’ dahlia. Siebert also reports three trends for 2005 including — we’re happy to hear — “nostalgia.”

Gardening How-To, “New Varieties for 2005,” by Mary Pestel, Jan.-Feb. 2005. Most of the editor’s choices are ours: ‘Alberich’ canna, ‘Arab Queen’ and ‘Bloodstone’ dahlias, ‘Croesus’ daffodil, and double tiger lily.

The Avant Gardener, “Beautiful Antiques,” by Thomas Powell, October 2004. This terrific, 36-year-old newsletter of all things new and exciting in the garden world spotlights our Bulbs of the Year and calls us “the premium purveyor of heirloom bulbs.” For a sample issue, send $3 to PO Box 489, New York, NY 10028, and tell Mr. Powell you appreciate his long-time support of our cause!

Traditional Home, “Dutch Treat: Antique Tulips to Grow and Show,” by Ethne Clark, Oct. 2004. Garden editor Ethne gets enthusiastic about our old tulips and a special sampler we put together exclusively for TH readers.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Heirloom Bulbs Fascinate Growers” by Doug Oster, Sept. 19, 2004. Doug introduces his readers to the pleasures of heirloom bulbs and us.

Family Circle, “Plant Picks from the Pros: 15 Garden Showstoppers,” by Cynthia Van Hazinga, Sept. 7, 2004. One of five nursery-owners featured in this excellent article, Scott recommends the indestructible ‘Black Beauty’ lily, Byzantine glads, and our Heirloom Fall Bulb of the Year, Tulipa acuminata.

Green Scene, “Heirloom Dahlias,” by William Woys Weaver, August, 2004. Our old dahlias grace the cover of this month’s Pennsylvania Horticultural Society magazine. Inside, our good customer and culinary historian William Woys Weaver writes about growing historic dahlias in his garden and credits our “tireless enthusiasm” for what he calls a “healthy revival” of interest in them across the country.

“My Grab-Bag Garden,” by Sharon Lovejoy in A Blessing of Toads: A Gardener’s Guide to Living with Nature, Hearst Books, 2004. In this essay from the Sept. 2002 issue of Country Living Gardener, Sharon recounts the joys of her Intro to Heirlooms sampler [formerly known as our Garage Sale sampler].

Garden Shed, “Living History,” by Kate Carter Frederick, winter 2003. This great article with glorious photos of the Hortus Bulborum includes a sidebar titled “America’s History Keeper” that’s all about us! Kate writes, “The Hortus Bulborum has a small, homegrown counterpart in the United States: Old House Gardens . . . . The impassioned work of Scott Kunst . . ., [it’s] the only garden supplier in the world devoted exclusively to offering heirloom bulbs and preserving the increasingly endangered varieties.”

Garden Design, “Forcing Bulbs is an Old Victorian Trick,” Nov./Dec. 2003. Our jewel-like, hand-blown, Victorian-reproduction forcing vases are featured, looking surprisingly modern.

Philadelphia Inquirer, “Keeping Blooms of Yore from Fading Away,” by Denise Cowie, Oct. 11, 2003. Denise can’t resist our rare tulips from the Hortus Bulborum.