Garden Musings

'Red Cascade'  This week's lawn scalping, while always a chore and most especially during our "rainy season" when Prof...

There are so many ways to read that title, eh?  "Still Life w/Surprises" merely as the title of a captured moment in art, an assem...

Sorry everyone, ProfessorRoush has been absent from the blog a couple of weeks.  I was deserted by Mrs. ProfessorRoush for the first week af...

'Snow Pavement' As ProfessorRoush toured the garden this morning, in the cool beginning of another scorching day, his heart was ligh...

'Emily Carr' Please allow me, in the midst of the late May flush of roses, to begin in the next blog entry or three to introduce you...

Applejack w/ bumblebee I'm going to describe a rose today, one that has always left me with mixed feelings.  The bumblebee sitting ...

'Spanish Rhapsody' About time for a new rose, I think. I've written about this one before, but I've got some better pict...

'Kashmir', first day I grow or have grown several roses belonging to Bailey Nurseries Easy Elegance series, and I certainly hav...

'Carefree Sunshine' My ongoing battle against Rose Rosette disease, and the annual Kansas summer scorch, has led to a few casual...

With a heavy heart, ProfessorRoush feels that he must give a full accounting of 'Marianne', sweet wonderful 'Marianne', who ...

Let us talk now of courage and survival in the face of adversity.  No, I am not even remotely referring to the trials faced by reality tv st...

'Morning Blush' Some variation of  the title of this post should probably be the title of every other that I write, amateur gard...

'F. J. Grootendorst' In normal times I respect and listen to Suzy Verrier on all things Rugosa.  After all, how can the author o...