Garden Musings

And.....winter again.  Just as ProfessorRoush was hoping to put the seasonal losses behind us, spring whimpered out of the way and let winte...

I just keep telling myself that there are many situations that could be worse than trying to keep a garden alive in Kansas in July.  We'...

A week or so back, I was awakened at 2:00 a.m. by the rising wind outside my window and, seconds later, the patter of rain against the pane...

At this early date, there are two and only two blooming plants in the garden of ProfessorRoush; both  falling somewhere into the ugly brassy...

This week my garden has been transformed into a den of inequity. A couple of days past, I was peacefully walking through my garden, virtuo...

Wednesday morning I walked through my garden with trepidation, fearful that at any minute I would slip and fall into one of the drought-crea...

I tell you, it's enough to give a guy a complex.  ProfessorRoush spent the early summer thinking that the two-year drought had eased, on...

During the three short years of existence of this blog and its 520+ entries, I can't believe that I haven't written about or shown y...

There are moments here on the prairie, exhilarating and yet satiating, when the Kansas sky flows deep down into my soul to quench the fires ...

Some areas of my Kansas roadside have burst into bloom with one of the most noticeable wildflowers to be found here in early Spring.  This i...

After years of study and accumulated evidence, ProfessorRoush has reached the conclusion that in an infinite number of universes, there are ...

This afternoon, after a day and a half of strenous garden work, ProfessorRoush quit working and took a number of photos to convince himself,...

Some of you may be wondering where ProfessorRoush has run off to the past week, and, truth be told, I've been away from the bleak Kans...

So where, Dear ProfessorRoush, have you been?  My email has been ringing whilst my blog has been quiet for over a week, but yet never fear, ...

West of Salina, Kansas Every time I make a little trek west on I-70 from Manhattan to Denver, I become more and more impressed by the r...

The ample rain two weeks ago was enough to green up the buffalograss and provide some much needed relief to the perennials here in Kansas. ...

News reports have now made it official; July 2012 was the hottest July on record in North America.  I don't know about you, the broader...

It's a great big Surprise Secret, and by continuing to read this entry, you have to promise that you won't tell Mrs. ProfessorRoush...

...Which means, "Are you crazy?" in German, according to Babelfish.  That premier internet translator gives me the exact same phra...

A second blessed event 0f RAIN (!) occurred Wednesday night.  Short-lived, but a nice little downpour of a little over an hour yielded 2.6 i...