Garden Musings

Geez, Louise, our fall color sure went away quickly.   It was looking at least a little fall-ish out there a week ago, oranges and russets a...

Finally, finally, finally, a small start to spring.   I found this first Magnolia stellata bloom on April 1st, and today on April 10th the ...

I was mowing the other day, my commonplace first mowing of the year that consists more of whacking down precocious weeds than cutting actual...

ProfessorRoush had to leave home before dawn yesterday morning, but returned home at noon to a sunshine-blue sky and a garden made of crys...

ProfessorRoush thinks so.  My outside thermometer thinks so.  Ding and Dong, the donkeys, thinks so.  And I'm darned sure these Fragaria...

Sunday morning, bright, sunny, and my Iris tectorum variegata is a standout in the garden.  I just love the way these green and yellow leav...

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...

Remember this photo of my 'Annabelle' lilac, covered in snow a scant twelve days ago?  Remember my whining about how spring was can...

Earlier this week, ProfessorRoush noticed the proximity of his third anniversary of blogging on Garden Musings  and began toying with the th...

ProfessorRoush was away for a few short days, and during my absence we got bucketfuls of blessed rain here in the Flint Hills.  According to...

Once upon a noontime dreary, while I staggered hot and weary, ending up my daily chores. I came upon a redbud stout, with dying leaves a...

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...

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