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

BLOG EASTER SUNDAY

HERE'S MY GARDEN CREW: Ben (L) and Noah (R) are my neighbours and they are terrific workers. This weekend they learned how to take all the matted leaves off the garden with those big cloth gloves; to cut up stuff for the compost and use that...

April 12, 2009

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Spring

BLOG SPRING CATALOGUES AND LIFE NOW

I do know that blogs are personal and this one sure has been personal with all the whining in public about the flood in my house. But ?March 25 was the ?last day of this unexpected and major renovation to my house. The workmen are...

March 30, 2009

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Winter

For the Birds in the Garden

Good friends make this time of year extra?special. And I am super lucky in having Alison Gordon in my life. She?s my opera buddy, hortbuddy and now a birding buddy. I know very little about birds. I can recognize the local red-tailed hawk when he?s...

December 21, 2008

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life

Of Bernini and hoses

I was in Los Angeles recently staying at the magnificent Bel Air Hotel and was lucky enough to get to the Getty Museum.? At the time there was a show of the marble busts of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.? It was one of the most breathtaking...

November 30, 2008

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants in my Garden

Of Pruning Persons and Garden Consulting

The response to the closing of Gardening Life has been overwhelming. Who would have known that so many people cared about the magazine? We write in what, sometimes, seems to be a void only to find out that a lot of people are listening. So listen...

November 20, 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