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In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants, Spring, Uncategorized

spring into weeds and blooms

It's astounding the difference a day or two makes at this time of year. It's like having a teenage kid who has a growth spurt: they are crashing and bashing about. I had given up in despair but this is the difference a couple of days...

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April 18, 2013
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 Design, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

GARDEN ADVICE FOR SPRING PERENNIALS

This week in the garden the perennials emerge looking like silky scrims back lit by the sun. Every layer has its own special glory.  I love all seasons in my garden but this one is making my heart sing it's so gorgeous. Be still and...

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April 8, 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 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...

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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...

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

AMAZING ANNUALS

Here's a fantastic annuals list. It's one I ordered from Mason Gardens for my clients and am still in the process of getting together for them. I mentioned I'd have this up on Fresh Air on Sunday. So I'm late. Everything's late. Agapanthus ‘Black Buddha’ Alternanthera ‘Purple...

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May 22, 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
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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.

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