Marjorie Harris | Plants in my Garden

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City Trees under Stress

It's dreadful what we do to city trees. Yet another old one was chopped down on our street last week. There might have been a reason (a Norway maple of great age, hollow in the middle) but it also might have been saved for a...

July 3, 2012

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

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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...

April 8, 2012

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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

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Plant list

This astounding plant has been blooming all winter and is now putting on new blooms for Spring: Helleborus 'Josef Lemper'. I'm going to be planting a lot more hellebores this year. They are superb. What a week: a talk at Canada Blooms was such fun and...

March 18, 2012

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Autumn news

I have been so remiss because I've been trying to finish THRIFTY GARDENING FROM THE GROUND UP. On CBC's Fresh Air this morning, I mentioned the newsletter. If you get in touch with me I'll put you on the list and send a link to the...

October 2, 2011

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landscape restoration

Restoring a garden after a landscaper has had his hand on it is a tough job. We're in the middle of that now. No prep, plants plunked in, burlap and metal still intact, and where's the expensive soil? We couldn't find any and the whole...

July 13, 2011

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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

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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...

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...

April 29, 2011

City Trees under Stress

Summer in the garden

GARDEN ADVICE FOR SPRING PERENNIALS

Spring Blooms

Plant list

Autumn news

landscape restoration

Summer in the garden

AMAZING ANNUALS

SPRING E-LETTER

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