Marjorie Harris

In Combinations, Design, Marjorie Suggests, perennials, Plants, Summer

Great Garden Combinations

Thinking about perennial combinations in the middle of winter is folly of course but what else to dream away a miserable dull winter day? I asked one of my favourite gardeners, Monique Dobson, if she would come up with her favourite combo and this is what...

January 26, 2011

In Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Summer, Uncategorized

the garden in july

The perennials are bursting out all over the garden. This is a garden which depends on foliage for most of its colour so it's startling to see Phlox 'David' shining in the background, the few roses I have being outrageous and all the hydrangeas I...

July 2, 2010

In Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Summer, Uncategorized

Insecticides

Jean Cumming wrote me this wonderful e-mail: What is Paris green? Bordeaux mixture? I presume arsenate of lead is an evil poison that cannot and should not be sold or purchased? I found Canadian gardening textbooks at a garage sale, one really, two editions, 1938 and...

June 19, 2010

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's Life, Plants in my Garden, Summer

Tom Vogel?s Pix and the new E-letter

I love looking at my garden. I?ve gotten to the stage where I actually sit in the garden and appreciate it. Feels like I?ve spent decades like a whirling dervish out there, not stopping long enough to memorize what it was like.I don?t remember...

August 18, 2008

In Marjorie's Life, Plants, Summer

Watching birds

After yet another mountain of deadlines completed, I realize I?m a serial worker. I can?t blog and do all this other stuff at the same time. But now it?s getting back into the garden to be more than just an observer. The other day I...

August 9, 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's Life, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Summer

Happy Canada Day

Wow what a magnificent Canada Day it is: warm,? sunny, not humid and the garden is looking magnificent.? I have a tour coming this afternoon:? it?s for a charity. They use my garden as a silent auction item and today I am expecting what sounds...

July 1, 2008