Marjorie Harris | Marjorie’s Life

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 Marjorie's friends, Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels

Alison Gordon

Our friend Alison Gordon died this week and the shock of it is only beginning to hit. The depth of the hole she left in so many people's lives is hard to describe. I was a friend, not an intimate but we told each other intimate...

February 13, 2015

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 Marjorie's Life, Plants in my Garden, Spring

June in the garden

What a great week in the garden. It started with the great photographer Andreas Trautmansdorff shoot in the garden. He's doing it for Gardenista the gardening blog everyone seems to be reading these days. The garden looked ravishing and, of course, Andreas's magnificent photographs captured...

June 13, 2014

In Marjorie's Life, Plants, rant, Summer, Uncategorized

All that plastic grass

The horror happened on our street this week. Truck after truck carted away trees, hostas, shrubs and soil. All gone. Then more trucks rolled in with herbicides to spray the ground, truckloads of screening was dumped and then thumped into place with heavy duty machinery....

June 29, 2013

In Design, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants

spring videos

Here's a remarkable blooming in the garden this week. It's gorgeous. And the house and garden are ready for their close up. I am doing set of new videos for the Globe and Mail and here are the first ones we a few weeks ago. They...

June 7, 2013

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...

April 18, 2013

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

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