Garden Musings

'Lambert Closse' Along with 'John Cabot' , another new rose to my garden that will have to "grow" to gain my full...

I do have a few "new" roses to share this year; roses that have survived a couple of winter seasons and seem to be reaching their ...

'John Cabot' Where to begin?  It's been so long since my last post.  I had the desire, I had the need, but I lacked the fina...

Let us talk now of courage and survival in the face of adversity.  No, I am not even remotely referring to the trials faced by reality tv st...

ProfessorRoush seems to have been a little whiny about droughts and diseased roses this Spring, so I thought I would bring a brighter note t...

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...

One of the more straggly roses that I grow on the prairie is the deep pink Canadian rose 'Alexander MacKenzie'.  She provides a bit ...

'Hope for Humanity'.   If ever there was a rose named to increase sales to the WEE (wild-eyed environmentalists) and the Birkenstock...

I'm not a hockey fan and I don't remember recalling that "eh?" was on my high school English teacher's list of good gr...