Garden Musings

ProfessorRoush apologizes, my gardening friends, for my long absence from the blog.   I simply haven't had anything particularly interes...

'Marie Bugnet' ProfessorRoush, at the beginning of a new gardening year, believes he has hit on a new theme that will at least tempo...

It is, in fact, still a world where miracles can occur, as Spring has finally begun here in the Kansas Flint Hills.   A very late, dry, and ...

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...

I neglected to show you one new rose in ProfessorRoush's garden this year, the Hybrid Rugosa 'Parfum de L'Hay' that I purcha...

ProfessorRoush is proud to present to you, 'Moje Hammarberg', an astonishingly well-behaved Hybrid Rugosa born of Swedish origin in...

There are roses that you love from the first glimpse, and roses that sometimes have to earn your love over time.  ProfessorRoush is here, li...

OA lily hybrid 'Kaveri' ProfessorRoush is almost there; nearly to the autopilot period of the summer garden, the period of the...

'Topaz Jewel', risen from the muck While ProfessorRoush's exterior surfaces are a bit "dampened" by all the rain w...

Sunday morning, bright, sunny, and my Iris tectorum variegata is a standout in the garden.  I just love the way these green and yellow leav...

'Ann Endt' It is high time, I think, that ProfessorRoush shows you a rose new in his garden.  My garden where every new rose has...

ProfessorRoush's cardiovascular health was tested this morning as I had a bit of a shock while enjoying my garden.  I went out for a &qu...

When a gardener is pressed by misfortune, by weather, illness, or insect, he or she will sometimes stoop to admiration of the unadmirable;...