Garden Musings

If ProfessorRoush can endorse the prairie's choice of a "Plant of the Week," he can also surely endorse a "Weed of the We...

Black Sampson echinacea The weekly lawn-mowing occurred on schedule today, a necessary Saturday chore that ProfessorRoush routinely approach...

My old friend, I recall The times we had, hanging on my wall I wouldn't trade them for gold 'Cause they laugh and they cry me Someho...

While ProfessorRoush is usually a reasoned and contemplative individual (please pay no attention to Mrs. ProfessorRoush's cackling in th...

Friends, ProfessorRoush failed you miserably today, too weak in a critical moment to do what really needed to be done.  I failed to capture ...

ProfessorRoush should not make fun of gardeners unknown and unknowing, but still, with all the many trials of life, one has to find humor wh...

Effective immediately, ProfessorRoush is instituting a new policy to combat the theft and illicit use of his photos by extremely unscrupulou...

ProfessorRoush is embarrassed, embarrassed I say, by his own recent display of poor taste.  I blame it on perfect product positioning, I bla...

I have spoken before, tongue-in-cheek, of She Who Must be Obeyed , easier abbreviated as the acronym SWMBO, in reference to the beautiful an...

My garden, especially this time of year, does what it can to add to the seasonal festivities.  At least, Mrs. ProfessorRoush thinks so, havi...

In my garden, after all these years, I'm reasonably sure that 99% of what lives there won't kill me.  It took ProfessorRoush all the...

When ProfessorRoush spots an unusual insect in the garden, some chitinous-shelled life form beyond his ken, he takes note of it.  When it&#...

Cannabis sativa .  Weed. Pot. Indian Hemp.  Mary Jane, buds, hippie lettuce, skunk weed, wacky tobaccy, combustible herbage.  Marijuana.  C...

...for rain gauges, anyway.  I have no experimental data regarding other subjects. ProfessorRoush has always been a purchaser of those lit...

In this modern age, where self-proclaimed exercise experts abound and continuously expound their unsolicited and dubious wisdom through al...