Marjorie Harris | Plants in my Garden

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

Winter Damage #1

Rain and higher temps have finally removed the four foot high stack of snow Dashy, my grandson, and I built last weekend. It was stacked over the drywell and has melted leaving the garden and all its flaws exposed to view. ?Of course the spring garden...

April 9, 2008

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

More Shade Plants for 2008

I have now beaten my deadlines into submission so I can think a little more clearly about what kinds of plants we should be looking at this year. This is based on Dan Heims? shade plant list. As I mentioned he is one of the great...

January 28, 2008

In Plants, Plants in my Garden

Shade plants

Okay so winter is back. But the wonderful Kelly came and fixed my pipes, we were able to get rid of most of the flood and I hope things will be all right in the spring. We gardeners are nothing if not hopeful. I mentioned Dan...

January 18, 2008

In Plants in my Garden, Winter

Snow damage

I am not a completely stupid person, and I am compulsive but this a.m. it was a toss up as to which aspect of my personality was driving me. I was taking pictures of the garden bathed in snow and glittering sun to replace the...

December 17, 2007

In Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden

street trees

After talking about the whacking down of the neighbour?s giant Norway maple yesterday, I got a call from Valerie another neighbour who was just as upset as I was. ??We need at least a dozen new trees on this streets and I can get us some...

December 14, 2007

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

It’s the berries

I managed to commandeer one tall grandchild to help with lighting up the tree and I must say it looks great. When we went outside to peer into the house everything looked warm and glowing. ?But that was yesterday and today all looks miserable in...

December 11, 2007

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

What looks good in winter

I have been really remiss these past few days but when I've got a deadline nothing else matters. Heads down banging away on the computer nonstop. ?When I looked up it was a winter wonderland all right. ?Gorgeous out in the garden. I was impressed immediately...

December 6, 2007

In Fall, Plants in my Garden

Good trees with good autumn colour

Autumn colours have not been much this year until this week and, voila, what's left on trees and shrubs has been the usual riot. But not the Fothergilla gardenii. It's normally a neon gold and orange but it's stuck in its yellow phase at the...

November 15, 2007

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

Splogging

Oh boy the learning curve goes resoundingly owards. I got this from Doug Greene, ace garden writer, blogger and all around gentleman. He was referring to the weird entry I shoved up here a few days ago. He referred to it as a "...

November 11, 2007

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Plants in my Garden

Squirrel prevention tactics

This is a glorious shot of the Japanese maple I look at from my dining room all through the autumn. But this Blog is about squirrels: will it ever end? The squirrel brigade came up with the following: Tom from Oakville said that one of the reasons...

November 5, 2007