Garden Musings

ProfessorRoush has a question mark on the title because I'm not entirely sure yet, but the 4 inches of wet snow last Monday seems to hav...

Okay, the first rule of 2021 is that we don't talk about "the year prior."  We leave behind here all reference to the misery a...

 ProfessorRoush has missed posting a couple times this week.  I have not been entirely idle in the garden but there didn't seem like t...

Gracious, ProfessorRoush is tired of winter.  All these poor plants, struggling towards spring, but fighting instead for just enough sun and...

Remember the "kid-tested, mother-approved" 1970's jingle from the Kix cereal ads?  Well, my recently blooming, Kansas-tested  ...

'Harison's Yellow' Whatever this crapola is, global warming or normal climate variation or coincidental heat spell, it has t...

A few years back, I was fortunate to have a friend who offered to trade some starts of his treasured fernleaf peony, the species peony Paeon...

This year, I wonder, which of my peonies will put forth unexpected and extra effort and serve to delight me? There always seems to be one sp...

Paeonia tenuifolia budding In the past few days I noticed that my brave peonies had decided it was time to stick their noses up above the...