Garden Musings

Although all the national media is calling the recent storm "The Storm of a Lifetime" or "The Storm of the Century", it ...

Winter.  Frost and fog outside.  Warmth and fire inside.  The calendar and the movement of the planets falsely claim the season is fall, but...

While ProfessorRoush is usually a reasoned and contemplative individual (please pay no attention to Mrs. ProfessorRoush's cackling in th...

 ProfessorRoush is going to make an unusual post this evening.   A post nearly without words. On August 29th, I noticed the light change in ...

Gardening is, alas, a long series of regrets, hopes dashed, and dreams dimmed.   ProfessorRoush, for instance, remains Meconopsis-less, the ...

Hemerocallis 'Blue Racer' This morning, as often happens during the seasons of warm days and cool nights, I'm waiting for the de...

ProfessorRoush woke up to a quandary this morning, a perplexing puzzle presented to him by the morning sunlight.  To wit, the question was w...

Sorry everyone, ProfessorRoush has been absent from the blog a couple of weeks.  I was deserted by Mrs. ProfessorRoush for the first week af...

'Snow Pavement' As ProfessorRoush toured the garden this morning, in the cool beginning of another scorching day, his heart was ligh...

One secret of ProfessorRoush's garden is that there is an orchard, a decrepit excuse for an orchard anyway, that I'm not very proud ...

Those who are of ProfessorRoush's era will recognize the quote represented by the title of this blog entry, and some may even hear it in...

'Cosmic Struggle' early morning ProfessorRoush had grandiose plans, a year back, to celebrate the 1000th published entry of this blo...