Garden Musings

The unseasonably warm weather of the past few days lured ProfessorRoush out of the house and into the garden.  Christmas Day and Friday it w...

I had long planned to post on Christmas, but this is not at all what I had in mind as late as 6:00 p.m. yesterday.   I apologize that I'...

If I hadn't felt a responsibility to remove (mow) the spent peony foliage down last weekend, I would have entirely missed the annual blo...

'Coral Sunset' I don't know about the rest of youse, but ProfessorRoush, he is off in the world planting peonies today. A late ...

There I was, minding my own business last weekend while I was doing some fall-cleanup chores; you know, things like putting the peony suppor...

Sweet Gum ProfessorRoush woke up this morning a little late, reading on his bedside clock that it was just prior to 7:00 a.m.   Normally his...

In the modern world, there are many, many things that the curmudgeonly ProfessorRoush does not understand.  Chief among these is the prolife...

ProfessorRoush fully realizes this entry may seem like a rerun of last week's post,  but he came back from a short trip today to see tha...

Earlier this week, ProfessorRoush noticed that one of his " old French " lilacs was blooming.  It is not, in itself, an unusual ...

It never fails.  Every spring, ProfessorRoush is a neat freak in his garden, and then, come every autumn, I'm exhausted by the constant ...