Garden Musings

If I hadn't felt a responsibility to remove (mow) the spent peony foliage down last weekend, I would have entirely missed the annual blo...

ProfessorRoush was nonchalantly driving through Manhattan Thursday when, near downtown, I passed this tremendous, floriferous display of Hib...

He almost didn't do it.   Yesterday was ProfessorRoush's 66th birthday, and it was packed so busy that, at first, he nearly didn...

'Bric-a-brac' I don't know what your idle times are like, but ProfessorRoush has but a few minutes in his busy life to devote to...

ProfessorRoush owes his readers an apology.  You see, I tried to blog yesterday, but I couldn't find my muse anywhere.  I have so much t...

Where, pray tell me, does one start to explain one's absence from this minor blog of over 3 months?  Many, if not most, of my readers ma...

The little devilish side of ProfessorRoush sometimes enjoys asking the uncomfortable questions, just to watch the answer-maker squirm a litt...

ProfessorRoush is polling today (or is it trolling?) with a troubling question for my blog readers.   Gardeners, do you prefer the captured ...

'Hope for Humanity' I was stunned speechless, stopped instantly in my tracks last week, by a random statement in a GardenRant.com c...

Hemerocallis 'Blue Racer' Life, as gardening, is a constant struggle, a process of waning and waxing hopes, heart-breaking failu...

I took a walk today, a "noon constitutional" as it might have been termed in another more gracious age.  I took a walk and strode ...