Marjorie Harris | Plants in my Garden

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

BLOG MAY 3/09 new spring perennials and the flood

Spring perennials, spring ephemerals and anything to do with spring struggled to be know in the garden this week. I did not expect this flood on the left would make me stop, sit for hours in the middle of the garden on a bench, feet...

May 3, 2009

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

BLOG PLANT SALES AND NEW PERENNIALS

Spring really did arrive this week and the garden is growing at a remarkable clip. Can't keep up with it. The only disappointment is that the ephemerals so necessary to bumbles and other bees were drowned completely. The mud was just too daunting for them...

April 20, 2009

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

BLOG EASTER SUNDAY

HERE'S MY GARDEN CREW: Ben (L) and Noah (R) are my neighbours and they are terrific workers. This weekend they learned how to take all the matted leaves off the garden with those big cloth gloves; to cut up stuff for the compost and use that...

April 12, 2009

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

The Garden in Winter

[caption id="attachment_741" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Acer griseum, paperbark maple"][/caption] I was at a really fabulous party last night, able to finally get out of the house after the endless cold subsided. The divine baked beans, great people and laughter. What a contrast with the past two weeks...

January 11, 2009

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

New Year’s Eve & the Garden

NYE this year the garden looks like a skating rink. We had snow, then rain, then warmth and now snow again. It looks very beautiful but it's lethal for the plants. There is, however, nothing I can do about it, except to sit back and enjoy...

December 31, 2008

In Plants, Plants in my Garden, Winter

Winter Perennials and Mulch

Just before we had a big dump of snow (and the garden now looks like its portrait), I toured the garden looking for flaws. It was perfect to my eye.? What a pleasure: there were still lingering scents from the artemisias, and other herbs. It...

December 19, 2008

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

The winter e-letter and birds abounding

Finally, I?ve got the winter e-letter ready and I sent it out by myself. This is a triumph of technology that I can be trained to do something on this computer, however long and painful it might be. If you haven?t received one by now,...

December 11, 2008

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

Of Pruning Persons and Garden Consulting

The response to the closing of Gardening Life has been overwhelming. Who would have known that so many people cared about the magazine? We write in what, sometimes, seems to be a void only to find out that a lot of people are listening. So listen...

November 20, 2008

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, 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