The W. Atlee Burpee Co., affectionately known as “Burpee seeds” to millions of American gardeners, is the nation’s largest home seed and plant company and was founded in Philadelphia in 1876, at the ...

`New names will lead us to a new universe of customers’ Call it cross-pollination of the e-commerce kind. Burpee Holding Co., the parent company of the W. Atlee Burpee gardening catalog, has acquired ...

Snow may be on the ground today, but it won’t be there forever. So, why let it get you down? Brew up a nice mug of hot tea, sit back, relax and let your fingers do the walking through some seed and ...

WARMINSTER, Pennsylvania -- If you've ever pulled a Burpee carrot out of the ground, munched on a salad of Burpee iceberg lettuce or sniffed a bouquet of Burpee zinnas, it's because those plants ...

I hadn't been back to Fordhook Farm, the ancestral home of the W. Atlee Burpee family, since the summer of 1992, when I fell in love with a zucchini called 'Roly Poly.' So I dropped by recently to ...

WARMINSTER, Pa. — The drawback to being a household name is that people tend to take you for granted. Even when you’re W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the company that was first to sell seed through the mail ...