Garden Musings

Third time is, indeed, a charm!  Or the fourth, or the fifth attempt, perhaps, I've lost track.  I've tried and tried to establish a...

'Snow Pavement' As ProfessorRoush toured the garden this morning, in the cool beginning of another scorching day, his heart was ligh...

'Madame Hardy' Finally, finally, finally.  At last, in this garden year of dry winters and late freezes and cool dampness, when ...

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

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 ...

It's time, my friends, to report the results of the Rose Rosette Plague and Massacre of 2017.  I spent the weekend before last culling o...

'Hunter'....of course This post is the second in a series of three Mondays on which I review a major group of my roses for black...

If there are dependable roses for a prairie garden; hardy, disease-free, tough pioneer roses, then surely the Rugosa's should be number...

There are near white roses and there are almost completely white roses, and there are really, really white roses.  And then, according to mo...

'Jens Munk', 8/19/11 The game is afoot Watson, for a great mystery has arisen on the prairie.  On Monday, I returned from a 4 da...

I always treasure those first blooms of each season in the garden, as I'm sure most gardeners do. There are three shrub roses in my gard...