Marjorie Harris | Plants in my Garden

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden

Of fading annuals and Tom Vogel photographer

This picture gives me one of the great lifts of the year. It was taken on my front porch November 13 and now the plant is indoors. This is Plectranthus ?Mona Lavender?. I can?t believe any plant can look this good in November. Long past the time...

November 14, 2008

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden

Of Autumn and Fabulous Trees

The book is done. It?s been head down doingnothing but working away on the last passes of ECOLOGICAL GARDENING which will be published by RandomHouse in March 2009. Every word is being read like the entrails of a sacrificial animal. No detail to small to...

November 1, 2008

In Marjorie's Life, Plants in my Garden, Summer

Tom Vogel?s Pix and the new E-letter

I love looking at my garden. I?ve gotten to the stage where I actually sit in the garden and appreciate it. Feels like I?ve spent decades like a whirling dervish out there, not stopping long enough to memorize what it was like.I don?t remember...

August 18, 2008

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer

Pruning Trees

I?m back. I am a serial worker it seems. I?ve spent weeks trying to finish the new edition of a 1991 book ECOLOGICAL GARDENING. To the astonishment of my publisher Anne Collins of Random House, I got it in at exactly the hour I said...

July 24, 2008

In Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer

Happy Canada Day

Wow what a magnificent Canada Day it is: warm,? sunny, not humid and the garden is looking magnificent.? I have a tour coming this afternoon:? it?s for a charity. They use my garden as a silent auction item and today I am expecting what sounds...

July 1, 2008

In Marjorie's Life, Plants in my Garden, Spring

Home Again, CBC’s Fresh Air and The All Canadian Rose Show

It wasn?t hard coming home from the Tuscan Tour in spite of the glories of the trip only because the garden is such a delight. If it had been in the middle of winter maybe despair would prevail. But right now the sheer pleasure of...

June 21, 2008

In Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, Plants in my Garden

Spring Bulbs and the Italian Tour

The BEST BULBS SEASON the beginning of the Tuscan Tour This has been an astounding bulb season. Partly that?s due to the long cool days we?ve been having and, there haven?t been as many squirrels around. These little marauders have left the garden intact. Bulbs are...

May 25, 2008

In Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

A May Visit to the nursery of my dreams

I had the fantasy day of all fantasy gardening days on Friday: I played?hooky??with my hortbuddies Susan and Geoffrey. We drove for-bloody-ever to St. Thomas and found Plant Nirvana: Canadale Nurseries ? (www.canadale.com).? This amazing, huge place belongs to Tom Intven and has been in his...

May 17, 2008

In Plants in my Garden, Spring

Native Plants

I'm going to be on CBC's 3 to 6 show with Matt Galloway this afternoon ?(on at 4:40) talking about bumble bees and plants in the garden. We need to attract all sorts of birds and insects into our gardens and that's going to be...

May 2, 2008

In Marjorie's Life, Plants in my Garden, Spring

May Day greetings

My poor blog was hit with a Trojan Horse virus and it took days to clean out. Now the usual idiot spammers are at work. I apologize for this. But spring is happening in my garden. I've got masses of species tulips in bloom and...

May 1, 2008