Garden Musings

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 ...

ProfessorRoush is not sure what was unique about last winter, but there was a disturbing desertion from the garden this spring, a vexing vac...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Sugar Tip' If a happy place exists in my arid, almost-August garden, it would have to be near this Rose of S...

Today, I'll show you why, in photos instead of my usual wordy rambling, that I handpick the Japanese beetles off my roses. All the pho...

Listen closely, friends.  I'm about to let you in on a little known secret that the gardening "how-to" books never tell you.  ...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Bird' If there is a stalwart plant of the autumn garden for the Flint Hills, a prime candidate must be t...