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- ↑ Leanne Hindmarch, “Gardening in the Great White North,” McMaster University, https://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/hpcanpub/case-study/gardening-great-white-north-marjorie-harriss-canadian-gardener
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- ↑ At Home with Canada’s Favorite Garden Writer, https://www.gardenista.com/posts/garden-visit-at-home-with-canadas-favorite-garden-writer/, Janet Davis, "Visiting Marjorie's Garden, The Paintbox Garden, August 6, 2019, https://www.thepaintboxgarden.com/visiting-marjories-garden/, Toronto Shade Garden, Garden Design, https://www.gardendesign.com/pictures/toronto-shade-garden_318/#7774
- ↑ Ecobeneficial podcast with Kim Eierman, https://www.ecobeneficial.com/audio/marjorie-harris/
- ↑ What obsessive gardener Marjorie Harris has learned from a lifetime of growing, CBC Life, May 14, 2019, https://www.cbc.ca/life/home/what-obsessive-gardener-marjorie-harris-has-learned-from-a-lifetime-of-growing-1.5135911
- ↑ Recreating Eden: “A Perfect Life” (2003, Season 2, Episode 2) at IMDb.
- ↑ See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oJtmQaZTmk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twWx2qIOVUM
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/life/author/marjorie-harris-1.4667978
- ↑ Marjorie Harris Fonds, https://library.mcmaster.ca/finding-aid/harris
- ↑ https://alumni.mcmaster.ca/s/1439/17/interior.aspx?sid=1439&gid=1&pgid=2443
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