Garden Musings

ProfessorRoush is not an innovator.  He has not, does not, nor will not ever claim to be an early adopter of technology.  Yes, in the earl...

Slowly and stealthly, the sly hunter stalks his prey beneath the searing sun.  He knows this foe, has studied its habits, sought out its sec...

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

TIL, for those gardeners who are not yet hip to Reddit, is shorthand for "Today I Learned" in millennial-ese.  ProfessorRoush was ...

Two days of unseasonably warm weather last Sunday and Monday drove ProfessorRoush out of the house into the garden to begin what will assure...

ProfessorRoush would like to call down a pox on all those garden authorities who have advocated various winter hardy boxwoods to be excelle...

ProfessorRoush places a high value on permanence when selecting garden ornaments or furniture.  I like concrete or iron rather than plastic ...

I hope that Shakespeare will forgive me for my corruption of his prose, but that is the million roses question, isn't it?  Conventional ...

As Readers of this blog know, I'm not in the habit of endorsing commercial products. I'm not affiliated with any company nor do I re...

Please listen to ProfessorRoush:  you MUST plan your garden carefully rather than submit to the whims of spontaneous plant purchases and spe...

NewsFlash!  Read All About It!  This is a Special Edition of the Garden Musings blog written to you from breezy Kansas.  ProfessorRoush, yo...

In preparation for Christmas, as per my usual pattern, ProfessorRoush planted an Amaryllis bulb, 'Red Lion', about 2 weeks prior to ...

During my scavenging trip to the home farm, one of the garden items that I was going to bring back by hook or crook was the large ball pictu...

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful....Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." Merry Christmas, everyone.  The temperature her...

ProfessorRoush just returned home with a vast number of new gardening implements and ornaments purloined from the home farm in Indiana, whic...

Federal law should require a warning sign on the dashboard of every gardener's car to alert  unsuspecting passengers of the dangers of u...

Listen closely, friends.  I'm about to let you in on a little known secret that the gardening "how-to" books never tell you.  ...

Well, at least the other side of my front bed.  In contrast to the yellow border that comprises the right side of my front landscaping , the...

As a general rule, I prefer to allow my shrubs to grow according to their own natural manner.  Stated in another way, ProfessorRoush is quit...

I don't often intend for the  Garden Musings blog to be a basic garden instructional blog, but my finding of aphids among the roses in ...