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Table of Contents:
Preface to the First Edition vii
I Garden (In Kansas): Therefore I Suffer 1
Landscapes in Day-Glo Orange and Purple 4
Statue Searches 10
Garden Of My Dreams 14
Of Garden Writers and Reading 19
Rose Snob 22
Sweet (Corn) Pain 26
And When I Thought It Couldn't Get Worse 30 Extension Master Gardeners 34
Soil Sorrow 37
Fragrance in the Garden 42
Not Enough Grasses 47
The Home and Garden Television Network 51
The Worlds Ten Best Roses 55
Garden Style 62
The Tiller, or Things We Learned From Our Fathers 65
Blue Thoughts 70
King of the June Bugs 73
Gardening in Burning Hell 77
What The Heck Is That Plant? 81
Crape Myrtles 85
Why Write About Gardening? 88
Weather Weary 91
Sound In The Garden 95
Bird Treasures 99
The Truth about Low-Maintenance Gardens 103
Where the Wind Goes Sweeping Down the Plains 108 Favorite Tools 111
My Best Advice 114
Favorite Garden Writers 117
Deep Mulching and Biodynamics 121
Gifts That Keep On Giving 124
Giving Gifts continued 127
Big Mistakes 131
The Ice Storm 135
On Colors 138
Compost 141
More Garden Writers 144
Daylilies another pretty flower 146
Self-Seeders 149
Of Native Lawns 152
Dueling with Deer 156
Of Lawns 161
A Perfect Year 165
Ex-Farm-Boy gardeners 167
Midden Misery 171
Purchased Tools 175
Children and Gardening 178 Meconopsisless 180
Time to Rest 182
Hybridizers and Nature's Colors 186 Wrastlin' with Rabbits 189
The Seven Gardening Sins 192
Putting the Dog Bowl Away 196
About The Author 201
Index of mentioned plants 203
Garden Musings, copyright 2009, James K. Roush
