Garden Musings

These August and September days in Kansas are what ProfessorRoush has always referred to as the "doldrums."   The hot, dreary, dro...

The 8 days of 100ºF+ heat we just had were not kind to ProfessorRoush's garden, drying the yard, crisping young plants with adolescent r...

Occasionally, during the hum-drum of daily garden affairs (and often, as it happens, while mowing), ProfessorRoush's mind plays a little...

Magnolia 'Jane' bud As a comment on my last post, my fellow Kansas blogger Br. Placidus asked if my garden had "burst into...

'Centennial Spirit' The increased number of warmer and dryer winters in Kansas, to say nothing of the hellishly hot and arid sum...

You would think, given the summer heat in Kansas, that crape myrtles, those southern summer stalwarts, would be an ideal plant to brighten u...