Marjorie Harris

In Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Spring, Summer, Uncategorized, Winter

Hydrangea: Plant of the Week

Here's my column for this week: From: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bobo’: The perfect plant for the urban gardener - The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/hydrangea-paniculata-bobo-the-perfect-plant-for-the-urban-gardener/article31061327/ I've been accused of hating hydrangeas: not true. I like some of them a great deal. I hate it when they are overused in...

July 22, 2016

In Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Winter

Great Plants for winter

I was on Fresh Morning this weekend. Great fun with Mary Ito. I mentioned a couple of plants I think people should look at for indoors possibilities: Papyrus ‘Baby Tut’ was a marvelous annual this year. If you can rescue it, bring it indoors in a...

November 8, 2015

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

Winter garden bring thoughts of travel in Italy

I've now had enough time to digest the amazing trip to Italy we took this past year. The Tuscan Valley is magnificent of course but I had never seen it in early autumn and it was, as always, a huge revelation. One revelation was: don't...

January 5, 2013

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

THE TABLE IS SET WAITING FOR THE FAMILY MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE. HAVE THE BEST DAY POSSIBLE XXXMARJORIE...

December 25, 2012

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, Plants, Winter

Christmas Gifts for Gardeners

I was on CBC's Fresh Air with Karen Gordon this morning and here's what we discussed: * Gardener's Handscrub from Crabtree & Evelyn which you can find at any decent dept. store. The scrub makes your hands feel soft as well as clean. Around $20 * O'Keefe's...

December 22, 2012

In Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, Uncategorized, Winter

CALIFORNIA 3

California has been perfect. The highlight of the past few weeks has been to go to the seal rookery where hundreds of bay seals are giving birth to pups. They keep the pups on this beach for a few weeks teaching them all the tricky...

March 7, 2012

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, Uncategorized, Winter

California Too

It's been a bonanza week in the bay here at the Carp. The other day hundreds of pelicans showed up chasing a school of fish dive-bombing them, making a snatch and then wheeling around the sky. It was astounding to watch that many birds all...

February 26, 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...

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...

January 21, 2012

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...

March 6, 2011