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In Combinations, Design, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer

Summer in the garden

This has been the busiest season ever for our design business meaning that seven day work weeks have kept me hopping. Here's the garden this week. It's a riot of foliage colour, depth and layering. I could spend hours just staring at it, if there was...

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June 18, 2012
In Combinations, Design, Marjorie Suggests, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

Spring Blooms

It's amazing, no, it's incredible to see spring bursting out of the soil so early. This is what I now think of as the Vancouver section of the garden: This is Viburnum bodnantense with a  Cornus mas behind it,  blooming far too early and on this rare...

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March 25, 2012
In Combinations, Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, perennials, Plants, Spring

California Dreaming

After the thrill of having magazines pieces on my garden in Garden Design and Zoomer mgazine, it's a good thing we're here in California where spring has already sprung. Our area is Carpinteria fondly known as The Carp. Our building is run by Heidi and...

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February 12, 2012
In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Travels, perennials, Plants, Uncategorized, Winter

Garden Trends 5 and on

Winter has come properly decked out finally and I'm continuing to be fascinated by thinking about where our gardens are going in the next year or so. 5. An emphasis on trees. More conferences, more concern about their condition especially for native trees. Finally we are getting...

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January 30, 2012
In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Travels, perennials, Plants, Winter

TRENDS 2012

TRENDS are sprouting all over the internet and garden trends are going to be featured here over the next while.  But first, here's what my formerly pleasant street street now looks like. They are changing the 1880s sewer and water pipes and it's like living...

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January 21, 2012
In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer, Uncategorized

landscape restoration

Restoring a garden after a landscaper has had his hand on it is a tough job. We're in the middle of that now.  No prep, plants plunked in, burlap and metal still intact, and where's the expensive  soil?  We couldn't find any and the whole...

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July 13, 2011
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...

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June 16, 2011
In Combinations, Design, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

SPRING E-LETTER

I've got a new e-letter prepared and Anna as usual has done a fantastic job on it. Full of lovely plant suggestions. Just e-mail me and I'll send you the link. The garden is popping incredibly and every day seems to bring new ephemerals into view.  But...

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April 29, 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...

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March 17, 2011
In Combinations, Design, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Winter

PLANT combinations #3

Well it was a winter wonderland today. After pouring rain all day yesterday, this is what we woke up to. I can see what looks like an ice skating rink out in the back of the garden which doesn't auger well for the plants under...

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March 6, 2011
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Marjorie Harris is one of Canada’s best known garden writers; she is the national gardening columnist for the Globe and Mail.She is also a garden consultant.