Marjorie Harris | Combinations

In Combinations, Design, Marjorie Suggests, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring, Uncategorized

PLANTS TO ENHANCE A MOON LIT GARDEN

Look for plants with white blooms, silver foliage; with variegated foliage of white and green ,they light up almost any night garden and don’t forget scent and sound (a gentle fountain murmur): Shrubs: Dogwood: Cornus kousa ‘Samaritan’ Silver foliage: Salix canadida pale and back lit by moonlight it...

May 16, 2018

In Combinations, Design, Marjorie's Life, plant maintenance

Indoor Plant for gifts and how to care for the

INDOOR HOUSEPLANTS CBC FRESH AIR BY MARJORIE HARRIS These are the plants I talked about on CBC’s Fresh Air December 23, 201 Don’t just fling plants around a window and think you are doing them or yourselves a favour. I used to collect indoor plants and lug them outside...

December 22, 2017

In Combinations, Design, Fall, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Uncategorized

Prep prune plant

In today's Globe and Mail I have my first piece in months, just as the season is winding down. I hope you find it useful. I sure loved writing it. I will now try hard to keep up this blog space with plant and garden information. This...

October 12, 2017

In Combinations, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants, Summer

SUMMER IN THE GARDEN: moving plants

It has been the busiest summer of a busy life. We have installed so many gardens and now things are slowing down and I can take a breath and be in m own garden. Here we pulled out trees and shrubs and moved things around to such...

August 4, 2014

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

This Week in the garden

I'LL BE ON CBB's Fresh Air Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. with Karen Gorden. Try and have a listen. If you missed the story in Gardenista: here's the link Wow here's a link to a story I wrote on the garden for GARDENISTEA http://www.gardenista.com/posts/garden-visit-at-home-with-canadas-favorite-garden-writer?utm_source=Remodelista%2FGardenista+Subscriber+List&utm_campaign=96faf6d7a9-Gardenista+Daily+Email+Campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_447a717cea-96faf6d7a9-384348629 hope you enjoy AND IF YOU'D LIKE...

July 3, 2014

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...

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...

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...

February 12, 2012

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 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...

April 29, 2011

PLANTS TO ENHANCE A MOON LIT GARDEN

Indoor Plant for gifts and how to care for the

Prep prune plant

SUMMER IN THE GARDEN: moving plants

This Week in the garden

Summer in the garden

Spring Blooms

California Dreaming

Summer in the garden

SPRING E-LETTER

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