Marjorie Harris

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden

Of fading annuals and Tom Vogel photographer

This picture gives me one of the great lifts of the year. It was taken on my front porch November 13 and now the plant is indoors. This is Plectranthus ?Mona Lavender?. I can?t believe any plant can look this good in November. Long past the time...

November 14, 2008

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Plants

Japanese knotweed

Today we were working in a garden rescuing it from what is one of the worst weeds known: Japanese knotweed ( Fallopia japonica, syn. Polygonum cuspidatum if you want to google it).This poor client has been a victim of a neighbour?s neglect. The people behind...

November 10, 2008

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden

Of Autumn and Fabulous Trees

The book is done. It?s been head down doingnothing but working away on the last passes of ECOLOGICAL GARDENING which will be published by RandomHouse in March 2009. Every word is being read like the entrails of a sacrificial animal. No detail to small to...

November 1, 2008

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants

Autumn containers and perennials

I promised on the Steven & Chris show that I would give information about perennials in container on this blog. ?Well here is a condensed version of what I said, what I wrote in the Globe and Mail and the best of all a reader's...

October 6, 2008

In Fall, Marjorie's Life

Marjorie on the Steven and Chris show

Here are some pics from the show yesterday....

October 2, 2008

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants

Autumn Perennials

The sounds and scents of autumn are just coming into their own. Both annuals and perennials are at their height of glory. And my own garden is no exception. Having a stroll around over the weekend was intoxicating.The Artemisia lactiflora ?Guizho? has just about gone...

September 29, 2008

In Fall

Spam and pipes

There are many things I don't understand about blogging, let alone web sites. I didn't realize that the reason I'm getting about one million porno spams a day is that my e-mail is out there for all these goons to find. So we're going to change...

November 17, 2007

In Fall, Plants in my Garden

Good trees with good autumn colour

Autumn colours have not been much this year until this week and, voila, what's left on trees and shrubs has been the usual riot. But not the Fothergilla gardenii. It's normally a neon gold and orange but it's stuck in its yellow phase at the...

November 15, 2007

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants

an amazing week

This has been an amazing week. First of all the autumn tones have finally come blazing into the garden. So many trees such as the katsura just turned yellow and dropped leaves with out hanging about making a glorious display. I complain no more. The new...

November 13, 2007

In Fall, Marjorie's Life, Plants in my Garden

Splogging

Oh boy the learning curve goes resoundingly owards. I got this from Doug Greene, ace garden writer, blogger and all around gentleman. He was referring to the weird entry I shoved up here a few days ago. He referred to it as a "...

November 11, 2007

Of fading annuals and Tom Vogel photographer

Japanese knotweed

Of Autumn and Fabulous Trees

Autumn containers and perennials

Marjorie on the Steven and Chris show

Autumn Perennials

Spam and pipes

Good trees with good autumn colour

an amazing week

Splogging

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