Garden Musings

The title is the subject for ProfessorRoush today, a meme on my mind for all this past week.   My week of miracles started a week ago on a w...

ProfessorRoush has been away this past week, away from still cold and windy Kansas, to...well, I'll let you guess.  Where, might you gue...

Lilac 'Betsy Ross' At last, Spring has arrived in Manhattan, Kansas.  It is and was a long-awaited, miss-conceived, desiccated Sprin...

'Cole's Red' Quince Spring, this year, is a fight within our witness, a struggle by life to leave behind the cold winds of Febru...

Hi, Everyone!   I apologize for the long lapse in posting, but autumn has been moving along and the world is streaming past my eyes at the s...

There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of a gentle, lamb-like spring easing into summer.  The world reborn, brown changed into green, ...

'Wonder Blue' In need of solace this morning, I turned to my iPhone photos, in likely company with millions of my contemporarie...

Let this post serve as a double warning to gardeners and other fragile souls downwind from Manhattan, Kansas.   Give up hope.  I mean it.  ...

What was the old aphorism about the "road to hell being paved with good intentions"?  Or maybe, "no good deed goes unpunished...