Marjorie Harris

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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

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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

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Xeriscape gardens

This is my latest beauty, not a xeriscape plant of course. It's Acer shirasawnum 'Moonrise' and the touches of red on the palmate leaves are echoed in the red tulips which I'd forgotten I'd planted last fall. Nature the great designer, serendipity for the rest...

May 18, 2013

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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

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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

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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

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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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MAY FLOWERS DON’T BRING SHOWERS

The garden this week is beyond glorious. I have more stuff to plant and then to take pictures of it. I was on Fresh Air (CBC radio) on May 19th and mentioned that I was upset that I couldn't find compost without the addition of peat...

May 20, 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

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...

March 25, 2012