Garden Musings

I suddenly realized yesterday that I'd been looking for Monarch butterflies to show up for years in the wrong place. And it has unfortun...

After a hard summer of rampant garden growth (accompanied by rampant weed growth), and all the incumbent lawn-mowing that accompanies abunda...

What is that time-honored saying again?  "If you can't beat them, join them?"  Okay, Lord, I'm beaten down to my marrow an...

'Coral Sunset' I don't know about the rest of youse, but ProfessorRoush, he is off in the world planting peonies today. A late ...

It occurs to me that some of you may fear that this blog is, at times, in danger of becoming a "weather report", justifiably so si...

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...