Garden Musings

'Lambert Closse' Along with 'John Cabot' , another new rose to my garden that will have to "grow" to gain my full...

'The Apothecary's Rose' While ProfessorRoush is illustrating neglected roses and exposing his failure as an attentive gardener, ...

ProfessorRoush has been harboring a secret for over a month now, but I'm too excited to keep it any longer.  If I pass it on, do you pro...

I do have a few "new" roses to share this year; roses that have survived a couple of winter seasons and seem to be reaching their ...

This week is the peak bloom of Hybrid Rosa spinosissima 'Harison's Yellow' on my "rose berm", the latter a slightly-r...

'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...