Garden Musings

As ProfessorRoush looked out his bedroom window two weeks ago, he spied yellow; yellow where it shouldn't be yellow.  In the garden, ...

Well, the forsythia bloom got slaughtered sometime this winter, and my red-flowering peach was a bit of a dud this year, but for some unfath...

I don't want to forget to relate that while I was communing with the art of tropical gardening during my time at Marie Selby Botanical G...

I've worried myself to distraction, this past month, concerned about the true costs of our April hailstorm on the garden.  The loss of a...

Orange may be the new black, but ProfessorRoush believes black will always remain in style, nonetheless.  Women never go wrong with a simple...

But, it's a good yellow kind of day.  I was stupendously cheered up last night when I noticed the first few blooms on 'Harison's...

In the midst of a hectic early November, I almost forgot to collect pecans from my young tree, but after driving over them a few times, I di...

Yes, in answer to a reader's email, my 'Yellow Bird' Magnolia ( Magnolia acuminata or Magnolia b rooklynensis ?)   still lives ...

Many years ago, when my daughter was perhaps six or so years of age, she returned from a late spring Manhattan Zoo outing and presented me, ...

Down my eastern hillside, near the unmown prairie, I have a line of trees planted that has, through no planned vision of my own, become a so...

I saw Greggo's recent  beautiful sunrise picture and post about the recent marriage and move of his son shortly before my bluebird trai...

I realize that I was neglecting my garden in the past few weeks of heat, in favor of my own personal survival, but how, oh how, did I miss t...

Consider this blog both a warning to the unwary enthusiastic gardener who is gullible enough to believe everything written about a plant, an...

Although I earn a living from K-State here in Manhattan, Kansas (not as a gardener), I have been remiss in not blogging more about the KSU G...

My "most awaited newcomer" has been teasing me for over a week now by performing a slow strip-tease, sepal by sepal, to expose her...

For me, warnings of the onset of Spring are manifest in the witch hazels, the daffodils, the minor bulbs, and the redbuds, but I finally fee...

A native Spring stalwart, the Eastern Redbud ( Cercis canadensis ) began to bloom here in the Flint Hills just yesterday.  I was beginning t...

As I drove to work this morning down from the highest point in Manhattan (a small hill called "Top of the World" overlooking the r...

One of my many, many pet gardening peeves (which should be differentiated from the many pets that peeve me in my garden), is the manner in w...

While the fall colors have generally been disappointing in the Flint Hills this year, I had held out hope for my October Glory Maple (it was...