Imagine the ease of just dropping a tomato or pepper seed right in the soil, even in regions with cooler spring temperatures.

Columnist Don Davis says unique flowers for Lynchburg gardeners to grow this year include Cupcakes Cerise Pink, a teacup-shaped flower featuring bright fuchsia pink petals.

That’s when, as part of a tradition dating back more than a century, the seed company opens its gardens to the public for the annual Burpee Open, set this year for July 27. For one day, guests ...

Burpees were invented by an American biologist named Royal Huddleston Burpee in the 1930s. Since then, they've been used for military training, sports training, and everything in between.