Marjorie Harris

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, 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 Newsletters, Summer

2014 THE YEAR OF RECOVERY AND MAINTENANCE.

The long cool spring turned into a long cool summer in our area. But weather's been strange everywhere from extreme storms to floods and drought. We truly are in the middle of climate disturbances. Many plants took months to recover from the devastating floods, shifts...

August 29, 2014

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

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

Dienanthe plant of the week

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/plant-of-the-week-dienanthe-caerula/article13674818/ This is the long long connector for my Globe and Mail column last week. It also has the videos we've been making on there as well. They are fun and fun to do. Here are links to the videos themselves: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/life-video/20130625theglobeandmailgardeningbasicsvegetablesmp4/article13044781/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/how-to-care-for-your-japanese-maples/article13137834/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/video-how-to-add-vines-to-your-summer-garden/article13301565/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/20130724theglobeandmailgardeningbasicseggshells-720p3000kbpsmp4/article13524455/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/life-video/how-to-use-ornamental-grass-in-your-garden/article13547526/ ...

August 13, 2013

In Marjorie's Life, Plants, rant, Summer, Uncategorized

All that plastic grass

The horror happened on our street this week. Truck after truck carted away trees, hostas, shrubs and soil. All gone. Then more trucks rolled in with herbicides to spray the ground, truckloads of screening was dumped and then thumped into place with heavy duty machinery....

June 29, 2013

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...

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...

June 18, 2012

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

landscape restoration

Restoring a garden after a landscaper has had his hand on it is a tough job. We're in the middle of that now. No prep, plants plunked in, burlap and metal still intact, and where's the expensive soil? We couldn't find any and the whole...

July 13, 2011

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

Summer in the garden

Perennials are popping up where I'd forgotten I'd planted them, spring flowering shrubs are just about over and there's been a huge opportunity on the perfection of these June day to whack the place apart. Some day I'll go into the garden and not be critical...

June 16, 2011

Hydrangea: Plant of the Week

SUMMER NEWSLETTER

2014 THE YEAR OF RECOVERY AND MAINTENANCE.

SUMMER IN THE GARDEN: moving plants

Dienanthe plant of the week

All that plastic grass

City Trees under Stress

Summer in the garden

landscape restoration

Summer in the garden

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