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

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...

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July 3, 2012
In Combinations, Design, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, perennials, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer

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...

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June 18, 2012
In Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Spring, Uncategorized

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...

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May 20, 2012
In Design, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

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...

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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...

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March 25, 2012
In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

Plant list

This astounding plant has been blooming all winter and is now putting on new blooms for Spring:  Helleborus 'Josef Lemper'.  I'm going to be planting a lot more hellebores this year. They are superb. What a week: a talk at Canada Blooms was such fun and...

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March 18, 2012
In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, Uncategorized, Winter

California Too

It's been a bonanza week in the bay here at the Carp. The other day hundreds of pelicans showed up chasing a school of fish dive-bombing them, making a snatch and then wheeling around the sky. It was astounding to watch that many birds all...

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February 26, 2012
In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Travels, perennials, Plants, Uncategorized, Winter

Garden Trends 5 and on

Winter has come properly decked out finally and I'm continuing to be fascinated by thinking about where our gardens are going in the next year or so. 5. An emphasis on trees. More conferences, more concern about their condition especially for native trees. Finally we are getting...

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January 30, 2012
In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Travels, perennials, Plants, Winter

TRENDS 2012

TRENDS are sprouting all over the internet and garden trends are going to be featured here over the next while.  But first, here's what my formerly pleasant street street now looks like. They are changing the 1880s sewer and water pipes and it's like living...

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January 21, 2012
In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Marjorie's Travels, Plants, Plants in my Garden

Autumn news

I have been so remiss because I've been trying to finish THRIFTY GARDENING FROM THE GROUND UP. On CBC's Fresh Air this morning, I mentioned the newsletter.  If you get in touch with me I'll put you on the list and send a link to the...

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October 2, 2011
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