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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

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

Pruning Trees

I?m back. I am a serial worker it seems. I?ve spent weeks trying to finish the new edition of a 1991 book ECOLOGICAL GARDENING. To the astonishment of my publisher Anne Collins of Random House, I got it in at exactly the hour I said...

July 24, 2008

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Spring

Weeds with Shannon of CFUN

I actually did something that was a lot of fun early this morning: a live interview with Shannon Nelson on CFUN in Vancouver. She?s a smart dame and she?s interviewed me before so we do get along. She listens to what you say instead of...

April 2, 2008

In Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden

street trees

After talking about the whacking down of the neighbour?s giant Norway maple yesterday, I got a call from Valerie another neighbour who was just as upset as I was. ??We need at least a dozen new trees on this streets and I can get us some...

December 14, 2007

In Marjorie Suggests, Marjorie's Life, Plants

Milne House Flower Show

Last night I opened the Milne House Garden Club's 40th anniversary flower show. ?This was a revelation to me. There are dozens and dozens of displays some the size of a pair of earrings: ?cut flowers in the most amazing configurations you've ever seen; ?and...

November 30, 2007

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

an amazing week

This has been an amazing week. First of all the autumn tones have finally come blazing into the garden. So many trees such as the katsura just turned yellow and dropped leaves with out hanging about making a glorious display. I complain no more. The new...

November 13, 2007

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

New container

The big container finally arrived yesterday along with the rain. I like buying one really good new container a year and this one is by Gardenstone which is a Canadian company and I've been thrilled with their pots. I like the very plain simple ones...

November 10, 2007

In Fall, Marjorie Suggests, Plants in my Garden

Squirrel prevention tactics

This is a glorious shot of the Japanese maple I look at from my dining room all through the autumn. But this Blog is about squirrels: will it ever end? The squirrel brigade came up with the following: Tom from Oakville said that one of the reasons...

November 5, 2007

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

Bulb day! (Finally)

I have been trying to do this blog every day and some days are just too overwhelming because of my Gardening Life deadlines. So from now on I'll be blogging when I've got something to say. And today is BULB DAY: Here?s what bulbs are now...

November 1, 2007

Autumn Perennials

Designing a new garden

Pruning Trees

Weeds with Shannon of CFUN

street trees

Milne House Flower Show

an amazing week

New container

Squirrel prevention tactics

Bulb day! (Finally)

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