Marjorie Harris

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

May 2016

I have a Spring Newsletter ready if you haven't signed up. Just hit the contact me button and I will send it to you. There is also a piece in today's Globe about Daphne X ''Lawrence Crocker' have a look at it wonderful plant from a...

May 21, 2016

In Newsletters, Spring

SPRING NEWSLETTER – 2016

I hardly know what season to call this. Spring somewhere and summer temperatures other places. After a bout of hip surgery, eye surgery and dental woes, I feel like the Bionic Woman and absolutely raring to go in the garden. But slowly. THE SOIL All through April,...

May 20, 2016

In Fall, Newsletters

AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2015

Autumn snuck up on me. One minute we were frying and the next it seems we slid into one of the loveliest of all seasons. The trees here seem a more brilliant phenomenon than ever and lose their leaves at a faster rate than I...

November 29, 2015

In Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Winter

Great Plants for winter

I was on Fresh Morning this weekend. Great fun with Mary Ito. I mentioned a couple of plants I think people should look at for indoors possibilities: Papyrus ‘Baby Tut’ was a marvelous annual this year. If you can rescue it, bring it indoors in a...

November 8, 2015

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 Plants in my Garden

Gardenista Article

May 29, 2015

In Design, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

May in the Garden

This morning I was on Niki Jabbour's radio show this a.m. Tremendous energy and information. Now to go out and admire the garden and see the things about to unfurl: Cornus controversa 'Variegata' and the fabulous Stewartia pseudocamillia which is going to be...

May 3, 2015

In Newsletters, Spring

SPRING NEWSLETTER 2015

As we staggered though the worst most miserable part of the winter-that-never-ends, it's finally time to think about what changes in the garden to make this year. This is the prime time to get professional help if it's needed because once the weather settles into being...

April 29, 2015

In Uncategorized

The Spring Flood

Spring always means a rise in ground level water, everybody in the neighbourhood draining into my garden and the usual playground: Some friends tell me I loe the flood and could do without it because it's so much...

April 27, 2015