Garden Musings

ProfessorRoush and his lovely wife, Mrs. ProfessorRoush, were in a Topeka restaurant Saturday evening around 4:15 p.m. when the wind-caused ...

'TimberCreek Ace' ProfessorRoush is gravely disappointed in both mankind in general and in the thousands of electronic engineers who...

ProfessorRoush was in Washington DC this week, normally my favorite city to visit, particularly if I have time between conferences to hit th...

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

I was mowing the other day, my commonplace first mowing of the year that consists more of whacking down precocious weeds than cutting actual...

ProfessorRoush is NOT, of course, referring to a mythical reunion of Paul, Ringo, George, and any ex-band members who may exist, because if ...

I just keep telling myself that there are many situations that could be worse than trying to keep a garden alive in Kansas in July.  We'...

Magnolia stellata 02/19/17 I had an inkling of spring. In the garden today, while tearing down a bit of old fence, I had an inkling o...

$@%&^#$&% ...time change.... @1!51%$!$% ....dog awake....   A pox on all politicians, State and Federal, who persist in messing up o...

I believe that I must be the last gardener on the planet to realize that John Scheepers and Van Engelen are sister companies, but I offer ...

Some years back, ProfessorRoush ran across some compostable water bottles at a Starbucks in Seattle and, because of the skepticism deeply em...

A week or so back, I was awakened at 2:00 a.m. by the rising wind outside my window and, seconds later, the patter of rain against the pane...

"If memory serves"....but memory often seems to fail to serve the old gardener, doesn't it?  I'm always exasperated when I...

Yes, ProfessorRoush has not blogged for quite some time.  January has frankly been dismal here in the Flint Hills, and I've been leery o...