Marjorie Harris

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, Plants, Spring

PLANTING TREES

I am asked constantly about the planting of trees. What are the best to choose? how do you do it properly? How do you water them properly? First of all trees comes in two forms: container-grown; or balled-and-burlapped. The former is obvious; the latter means the...

May 2, 2010

In Marjorie Suggests, perennials, Spring, Uncategorized

SHADE PERENNIALS

On CBC's Fresh Air yesterday I mentioned some of my favourite shade perennials. Here's the list: Forthergilla gardenii great little shrubs with white spring bottlebruch blooms. For some great shade plants, choose from this list of natives: Woodland poppy (very hard to find but worthwhile); Aquilegia...

April 26, 2010

In perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring, Uncategorized

THE GARDEN IN SPRING

This is the garden this morning back lit by the rising sun. It's come along at an astounding rate but it's still early days. Don't be tempted to put vulnerable plants outside; wait a bit to plant perennials. You can put in woody...

April 24, 2010

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 Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Spring

BLOG SPRING CATALOGUES AND LIFE NOW

I do know that blogs are personal and this one sure has been personal with all the whining in public about the flood in my house. But ?March 25 was the ?last day of this unexpected and major renovation to my house. The workmen are...

March 30, 2009

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

Home Again, CBC’s Fresh Air and The All Canadian Rose Show

It wasn?t hard coming home from the Tuscan Tour in spite of the glories of the trip only because the garden is such a delight. If it had been in the middle of winter maybe despair would prevail. But right now the sheer pleasure of...

June 21, 2008