Garden Musings

It is a poorly-kept secret that our Government officials, soon after being elected or appointed, quickly learn to use Friday as a day to dum...

I am fully aware that in my advocacy for the Griffith Buck roses, I often veer dangerously close to being mistaken for a mouth-foaming, rab...

Now that I've seen others state on the Web that it has been a bad blackspot year for their roses, I feel confident enough to come out of...

Chipping Sparrow eggs? It never fails.  Just today, on a day of vacation to work in the garden, I was puttering around as usual, all the...

I don't often participate in Garden Blogger's Bloom Day from May Dreams Garden, but in the midst of a very cold, dreary Sunday, wha...

One of the rarest colors of roses has always been that perfect apricot-orange color that I, myself, happen to really covet.  Do we like it o...

Readers of this blog already know that I'm partial to many of the roses bred by the late Griffith Buck.  It's a sure thing that Prof...

With all the hype about and garden center proliferation of the English roses produced by David Austin, I must confess that I'm still not...