Marjorie Harris

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

BLOG MAY 3/09 new spring perennials and the flood

Spring perennials, spring ephemerals and anything to do with spring struggled to be know in the garden this week. I did not expect this flood on the left would make me stop, sit for hours in the middle of the garden on a bench, feet...

May 3, 2009

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

BLOG PLANT SALES AND NEW PERENNIALS

Spring really did arrive this week and the garden is growing at a remarkable clip. Can't keep up with it. The only disappointment is that the ephemerals so necessary to bumbles and other bees were drowned completely. The mud was just too daunting for them...

April 20, 2009

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

The Garden in Winter

[caption id="attachment_741" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Acer griseum, paperbark maple"][/caption] I was at a really fabulous party last night, able to finally get out of the house after the endless cold subsided. The divine baked beans, great people and laughter. What a contrast with the past two weeks...

January 11, 2009

In Plants, Plants in my Garden, Winter

Winter Perennials and Mulch

Just before we had a big dump of snow (and the garden now looks like its portrait), I toured the garden looking for flaws. It was perfect to my eye.? What a pleasure: there were still lingering scents from the artemisias, and other herbs. It...

December 19, 2008

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, Plants

Japanese knotweed

Today we were working in a garden rescuing it from what is one of the worst weeds known: Japanese knotweed ( Fallopia japonica, syn. Polygonum cuspidatum if you want to google it).This poor client has been a victim of a neighbour?s neglect. The people behind...

November 10, 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 Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants

Autumn containers and perennials

I promised on the Steven & Chris show that I would give information about perennials in container on this blog. ?Well here is a condensed version of what I said, what I wrote in the Globe and Mail and the best of all a reader's...

October 6, 2008

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants

Autumn Perennials

The sounds and scents of autumn are just coming into their own. Both annuals and perennials are at their height of glory. And my own garden is no exception. Having a stroll around over the weekend was intoxicating.The Artemisia lactiflora ?Guizho? has just about gone...

September 29, 2008

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Summer

Designing a new garden

This week is going to be really exciting because today we start on a new garden. I always find this exhilarating. New trees, new shrubs but first of all taking out all the junk that was there before us and then going massive soil rejuvenation.Derek...

August 25, 2008