Garden Musings

Where, pray tell me, does one start to explain one's absence from this minor blog of over 3 months?  Many, if not most, of my readers ma...

'Ann' Magnolia  ProfessorRoush is trapped indoors once again today, by wind and cold in the boorish 4's; 40 mph wind gusts and 4...

Finally, finally, finally, a small start to spring.   I found this first Magnolia stellata bloom on April 1st, and today on April 10th the ...

Two weeks later...and spring feels barely farther along that it was.   Oh, there are subtle signs; an early daffodil or two, lilac buds swel...

By "vainly searching", ProfessorRoush means that he is searching futilely, fruitlessly for spring, not that I'm boasting or co...

Here in Kansas, the weather seems to be turning, and when the wind stops blowing for brief instances of time, ProfessorRoush can get outside...

I was mowing yesterday, wilting on the John Deere seat in the summer-like high 90's temperatures and seared by the blazing sun, but the ...

A couple errant warm days this week startled spring into subtle splendor, this leafless, stiff and formless shrub leading the way  on the ea...

Spring began in Manhattan while I was away in D.C., as I came home to this very first daffodil blooming on March 10.   We had enough weat...

ProfessorRoush got his wish today.  At the close of my last blog entry, I said that I only hoped that the 'Ann' Magnolia would stop ...

Magnolia 'Jane' bud As a comment on my last post, my fellow Kansas blogger Br. Placidus asked if my garden had "burst into...

I'm afraid that this is all I've got to show for a weekend in the garden.  These two simple photos represent my dual accomplishments...

Just in time, I got the debris cleared off the asparagus bed today.  See the new white shoot just breaking the soil in the center of the pic...