Marjorie Harris | a life in the garden

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 but time. This is a...

June 18, 2012

In Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Spring, Uncategorized

MAY FLOWERS DON’T BRING SHOWERS

The garden this week is beyond glorious. I have more stuff to plant and then to take pictures of it. I was on Fresh Air (CBC radio) on May 19th and mentioned that I was upset that I couldn't find compost without the addition of peat moss. I don't buy...

May 20, 2012

In Design, Globe and Mail copy, Marjorie Suggests, Plants, Plants in my Garden, Spring

GARDEN ADVICE FOR SPRING PERENNIALS

This week in the garden the perennials emerge looking like silky scrims back lit by the sun. Every layer has its own special glory. I love all seasons in my garden but this one is making my heart sing it's so gorgeous. Be still and enjoy it. Here's is a version...

April 8, 2012

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

Spring Blooms

It's amazing, no, it's incredible to see spring bursting out of the soil so early. This is what I now think of as the Vancouver section of the garden: This is Viburnum bodnantense with a Cornus mas behind it, blooming far too early and on this rare occasion together. It reminds me...

March 25, 2012

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

Plant list

This astounding plant has been blooming all winter and is now putting on new blooms for Spring: Helleborus 'Josef Lemper'. I'm going to be planting a lot more hellebores this year. They are superb. What a week: a talk at Canada Blooms was such fun and I forgot my plant list...

March 18, 2012

Summer in the garden

MAY FLOWERS DON’T BRING SHOWERS

GARDEN ADVICE FOR SPRING PERENNIALS

Spring Blooms

Plant list

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