Garden Musings

'Prairie Dawn' ProfessorRoush has briefly mentioned this rose before , and regular readers are surely aware of my strong preference ...

'Variegata di Bologna' Well, things are looking up as far as gardening in Kansas goes, and ProfessorRoush is breathing a little easi...

'Morden 6910' ProfessorRoush admits, woefully, wistfully and wantonly, that this Spring season is definitively not living up to is h...

'White Gardenia' ProfessorRoush almost wrote the title as "Is it or Isn't It?"    Looking it up, it seems there is muc...

Quit yer giggling, some of you! "Nyctinasty", or "nyctinasties" in its plural form, is not etymologically based where yo...

Merely a few weeks back, on March 14, I wrote a blog full of hope for a gradual and beautiful Spring. "Irrepressible Spring", I t...

Dead/dried Forsythia blossoms "If you want different weather, just wait 15 minutes and it will change."   Every Midwestern America...

The first 2026  Magnolia stellata Color is returning to the landscape, foretelling Spring right around the corner, just past another cold sp...

Scilla siberica You all know ProfessorRoush hates the seasonal time change even under the best circumstances, right?  But, facing the semi-a...

 A warm couple of late February weeks teased this early single daffodil out into the open in my back patio bed yesterday.  Foolish little on...

ProfessorRoush has been absent from the blog lately, but I've not been idle!  Various work and other duties have stolen my time away fro...