Garden Musings

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...

By "vainly searching", ProfessorRoush means that he is searching futilely, fruitlessly for spring, not that I'm boasting or co...

A few weeks ago, on a partially random internet purchasing foray, I came across How Not to Kill a Peony; An Owners Manual , a 2018-dated pap...

Occasionally, we turn a corner of life, and there, there it is, genial and gracious as if it were always there waiting for us.  Soul-thirsty...

Surfing Amazon at the end of last year (okay, looking for ways to spend Christmas money on Amazon), I was surprised and excited to find this...

ProfessorRoush still, occasionally, reads the monthly Reader's Digest .  Not as a regular subscriber, but in a spurious-purchase-at-the-...

Those who don't like books, or those who don't like the act of reading books, may not appreciate my recent post on the reading I'...

Since the weather has chosen to turn cold and miserably wet the past few days (and off and on for the past month), ProfessorRoush has been...

ProfessorRoush had prepared a profound plum of gardening philosophy for you to ponder today. However, the accompanying photo, of 'Yellow...

Just last Saturday, I walked into a Half-Price Books and walked out several minutes later and $70 poorer with two sacks of printed pleasure....

ProfessorRoush hasn't slept in, self-defined as any prone position of my body after 6:00 a.m., for years, but I had plans to make it unt...

The garden greets me from a shroud of mist on this quiet Christmas morning and I couldn't ask for more from the world.  Delicately diffu...

While I'm off on a garden book tangent, I am pleased to show you one of the many reasons why I browse secondhand book stores and visit e...

My most recent garden-related read, The Unlikely Lavender Queen by Jeannie Ralston, was a book that I chose hoping I'd get some poin...

'Stella de Oro' Are all gardeners so opinionated, or is it just ProfessorRoush?  Because he has definite opinions about almost e...

Among other activities this Spring, I spent my reading time rambling between several books.  I often find myself with several books open, pi...

There is no morning more pleasing for me than to wake up early and find the house silent and cloaked in fog, harsh rays of the rising sun di...

I don't want to interrupt the "every other day" flow of blog posts that I have going, but I also couldn't let my good luck...

1.  There should always be time for play.  In the midst of busy days and hectic lives, everyone should find an outlet for release; a doorway...

Somewhere in my busy summer, I found time to read this recent tome, A History of the Garden in Fifty Tools , by Bill Laws.  I actually paid...