Marjorie Harris | Marjorie Suggests

In Combinations, Design, Marjorie Suggests, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring, Uncategorized

PLANTS TO ENHANCE A MOON LIT GARDEN

Look for plants with white blooms, silver foliage; with variegated foliage of white and green ,they light up almost any night garden and don’t forget scent and sound (a gentle fountain murmur): Shrubs: Dogwood: Cornus kousa ‘Samaritan’ Silver foliage: Salix canadida pale and back lit by moonlight it...

May 16, 2018

In Combinations, Design, Fall, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Uncategorized

Prep prune plant

In today's Globe and Mail I have my first piece in months, just as the season is winding down. I hope you find it useful. I sure loved writing it. I will now try hard to keep up this blog space with plant and garden information. This...

October 12, 2017

In Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Uncategorized

Globe and Mail garden column

My column in the Globe and Mail today (Thursday June 15, 2017) is about native plants we should be using in the garden. The illustration is of Amsonia 'Blue Ice' a new cultivar of our native blue star. I saw a collection of great plant3s at John's Garden...

June 15, 2017

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Speech in Mississauga

FOR THE APPLEWOOD HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY SELECTED PLANT LIST by Marjorie Harris Some of the professionals who work in my garden: Monique Dobson mondobson@gmail.com Derek Welsh of Authentic Tree Care 1.888.366.2273 These are some of my favourite plants and they’ll be included in my talk. Acer griseum Acer palmatum Japanese maple...

January 25, 2017

In Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Spring, Summer, Uncategorized, Winter

Hydrangea: Plant of the Week

Here's my column for this week: From: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bobo’: The perfect plant for the urban gardener - The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/hydrangea-paniculata-bobo-the-perfect-plant-for-the-urban-gardener/article31061327/ I've been accused of hating hydrangeas: not true. I like some of them a great deal. I hate it when they are overused in...

July 22, 2016

In Design, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, perennials, Plants, Spring

May 2016

I have a Spring Newsletter ready if you haven't signed up. Just hit the contact me button and I will send it to you. There is also a piece in today's Globe about Daphne X ''Lawrence Crocker' have a look at it wonderful plant from a...

May 21, 2016

In Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Winter

Great Plants for winter

I was on Fresh Morning this weekend. Great fun with Mary Ito. I mentioned a couple of plants I think people should look at for indoors possibilities: Papyrus ‘Baby Tut’ was a marvelous annual this year. If you can rescue it, bring it indoors in a...

November 8, 2015

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer, Uncategorized

SUMMER NEWSLETTER

This edition of the quarterly is in a new format. Our webmistress is on holidays so here it is as a blog: [caption id="attachment_2395" align="alignleft" width="480"] The Garden July 2015[/caption] The garden has been giving a huge amount of pleasure all year. But this summer it has...

July 27, 2015

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

May in the Garden

This morning I was on Niki Jabbour's radio show this a.m. Tremendous energy and information. Now to go out and admire the garden and see the things about to unfurl: Cornus controversa 'Variegata' and the fabulous Stewartia pseudocamillia which is going to be...

May 3, 2015

In Combinations, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants, Summer

SUMMER IN THE GARDEN: moving plants

It has been the busiest summer of a busy life. We have installed so many gardens and now things are slowing down and I can take a breath and be in m own garden. Here we pulled out trees and shrubs and moved things around to such...

August 4, 2014