Garden Musings

Come one, come all, to the 'Prairie Moon' Ball! White and cream petals closed at each morning, Exposed golden stamens are shining ea...

'Buckeye Belle' ....at least not when spring has arrived, a spring for which you've waited impatiently over the past 2.5 eon...

I, ProfessorRoush, of normally sane intellect and body, must now confess that yesterday I participated, nay, I joyfully surrendered, to that...

Ssshhhh.  There it is.  Do you see it?  Be careful, don't spook it!  Yes, I'm referring to that pinkie-sized little burgundy-red bul...

Another mystery of my garden was revealed last night when a volunteer peony seedling (sapling? stalk? plant?) opened for the first time.  Un...

I don't know where the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" originated, but sometimes even a picture is inadequate to ...

Things are happening incredibly fast in the garden right now.  The cool temperatures of the past few weeks followed by the 80's and 90&#...

Good gravy, I've been puttering along through Spring, thinking that I have been keeping up pretty well with the garden chores.  I've...

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...

It's sometimes astonishing to me how fleeting the life of plants in my garden can be.  Planted one minute and dead the next, particularl...