Garden Musings

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (dark form) If you've followed this blog long, you have probably guessed that many of my photo inspirations, a...

In the Kansas Flint Hills, late July and August is a dreadful period for gardeners.  There is often a seasonal lack of rain during those wee...

On his way home from work Friday night, ProfessorRoush turned onto the road leading to his house and, facing west, the sky ahead was this: M...

03/18/2025 As a not-so-fortunate example of the highs and lows of gardening in Kansas, ProfessorRoush will live up to his blogging pseudonym...

 Our recent week-long warm spell of 60F-75F converted what I anticipated as a delayed Spring and a to-be-continued uniformly bland landscape...

My, my.  Already beginning the third month of the year and ProfessorRoush has not, until today, touched a single finger to keyboard on behal...

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...

(fair warning;  long and lots of pictures and links to previous blogs) If there is a Hell, ProfessorRoush is convinced that it is populated ...