Landreth Seed launches African-American collection

11/30/09 By Ginny Smith The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA | Six years ago, when Barbara Melera bought the venerable D. Landreth Seed Co., it had been decades since Landreths were at the helm, and the company no longer specialized in the vegetables and flowers that had built its fine reputation.

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Reaping a 225-year harvest of gardeners

01/07/10 January is National Mailorder Gardening Month, and the mailboxes of gardeners will soon be stuffed with tomatoes and melons, peas and perennials. Although most of these catalogs are photographic wonders, few will have the graceful and historic beauty of the catalog D. Landreth Seed has produced to celebrate 225 years of teaching people how to garden.

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Collection cultivates historical horticulture

02/12/10 It was dumb luck that paired Barbara Melera and Michael Twitty. After the two separately attended an event at Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson, Mr.

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