Garden Musings

Saturday last was a glorious, windless, sunny day of almost 70ºF here on the Kansas prairie, a premature peek at the spring season before wi...

Even the strongest relationships have to dig through rocky ground from time to time, and the bond between my garden and I has been similarly...

I'm sorry, Mother Nature, you must have misunderstood me.  I was not shouting "Encore!  Encore!" in hope of seeing winter cont...

At this early date, there are two and only two blooming plants in the garden of ProfessorRoush; both  falling somewhere into the ugly brassy...

When finally melts incessant snow, When arctic winds no longer blow, When I've succumbed to Winter's woe, I'm rescued by swee...

Clairvoyant.  Psychic.  Prescient.  Prophetic.  Absolutely none of those words ever pertain to the grounded, rational, and reasoned Professo...

Here is it again, another sign of an incredibly early Spring.  My first glimpse of yellow Snow Crocus ( Crocus chrysanthus ) occurred this...

Crocus chrysanthus 'Goldilocks' Well, for a very short time, we almost had a glimpse of Spring here in the Flint Hills.  Every y...