Marjorie Harris | a life in the garden

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

Garden combinations #2

I asked for some contributions to what makes a good garden combination. Here's a really imaginative one from Barry Parker. He has a glorious garden in downtown Toronto. It's the kind you like to return to a couple of times a year to see how his imagination pushes it onward. Barry...

February 13, 2011

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 she sent me: This is Gentian...

January 26, 2011

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Cornus sericea ‘Arctic Fire’

The garden as usual the great solace is blanketed with yet another dump of lovely fresh snow. Best mulch of course, but a little hard for slogging about back there with compost. Gotten very lazy about doing that so it's into the city compost. This dogwood is on my mind. It...

January 16, 2011

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

WINTER IN THE GARDEN

The garden in winter seems to hold all the secrets of the world in its mysteriousness. Here's mine before I rushed out with a broom. It's glorious and picturesque: But this is a dangerous situation for trees and shrubs laden with snow as the sun hits them and makes them...

January 8, 2011

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE GARDEN IN WINTER AND FRIENDS

I woke up to the gorgeous Amaryllis just starting to open. If I keep breathing on it all day, maybe it will bloom by the time the family comes. I have a new camera and haven't had time to read the instructions. But here's our Christmas table. The garden is looking...

December 25, 2010

Garden combinations #2

Great Garden Combinations

Cornus sericea ‘Arctic Fire’

WINTER IN THE GARDEN

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE GARDEN IN WINTER AND FRIENDS

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