Marjorie Harris | Marjorie’s Life

In Combinations, Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants in my Garden, Summer

Summer in the garden

Perennials are popping up where I'd forgotten I'd planted them, spring flowering shrubs are just about over and there's been a huge opportunity on the perfection of these June day to whack the place apart. Some day I'll go into the garden and not be critical...

June 16, 2011

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

AMAZING ANNUALS

Here's a fantastic annuals list. It's one I ordered from Mason Gardens for my clients and am still in the process of getting together for them. I mentioned I'd have this up on Fresh Air on Sunday. So I'm late. Everything's late. Agapanthus ‘Black Buddha’ Alternanthera ‘Purple...

May 22, 2011

In Combinations, Design, Marjorie's Life, Plants in my Garden, Spring

Spring perennials

The garden has popped. It's crammed with perennials and bulbs; buds bursting on shrubs and trees. I have been in the hospital with my husband Jack who has just undergone heart surgery. I can now truly celebrate spring: spring for him with a new valve...

April 15, 2011

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants in my Garden, Spring

CANADA BLOOMS AND WILD LIFE IN THE URBAN GARDEN

I don't know if this is a sign of spring, but I was riveted the other day when a hawk, a HUGE hawk settled in the garden right in the centre on the Japanese maple. I didn't dare move because I could feel him looking...

March 17, 2011

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

WINTER IN THE GARDEN

The garden in winter seems to hold all the secrets of the world in its mysteriousness. Here's mine before I rushed out with a broom. It's glorious and picturesque: But this is a dangerous situation for trees and shrubs laden with snow as the sun...

January 8, 2011

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

Autumn Garden design and the newsletter

DON'T MISS THE INFORMATION ON THE GORGEOUS NEW BANNER UP THERE. The autumn newsletter is ready to send out now it's you like to sign up. Push the button and I'll get it to you. Here's a part of the garden this week. The Plant of...

October 16, 2010

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer

the garden in july

The perennials are bursting out all over the garden. This is a garden which depends on foliage for most of its colour so it's startling to see Phlox 'David' shining in the background, the few roses I have being outrageous and all the hydrangeas I...

July 2, 2010

In Marjorie's Life, Uncategorized

Montreal Gazette Review of Thrifty

I just got a phone call from Edward O. Phillips one of my favourite novelists. He lives in Montreal and like the gentleman he is he read me a great review of THRIFTY: living the frugal life with style over the phone. Someone will have...

March 14, 2010

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, Uncategorized

Gardens and Beaches

The garden and the beach have a lot in common: they present a new face each day depending on weather and light and all the other exigencies nature throws in their way. They never fail to amaze, amuse and baffle. Which is why we...

March 4, 2010