At A Glance: Gerbera Daisies
Posted on: February 20, 2010 2 Comments
Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced landscape and garden designer whose firm first opened its doors in 1986.
Deborah Silver is a landscape and garden designer whose firm, Deborah Silver and Co Inc, opened its doors in 1986. She opened Detroit Garden Works, a retail store devoted to fine and unusual garden ornament and specialty plants, in 1996. In 2004, she opened the Branch studio, a subsidiary of the landscape company which designs and manufactures garden ornament in a variety of media. Though her formal education is in English literature and biology, she worked as a fine artist in watercolor and pastel from 1972-1983. A job in a nursery, to help support herself as an artist in the early 80’s evolved into a career in landscape and garden design. Her landscape design and installation projects combine a thorough knowledge of horticulture with an artist’s eye for design. Her three companies provide a wide range of products and services to the serious gardener. She has been writing this journal style blog since April of 2009.
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Cool, as always. I’m particularly intrigued by the third and last photo — It looks like they’re in some kind of incredibly tiny vases (maybe what you’d use for buttonholes?) and then stuck into cool shaped florist’s foam or styrofoam — am I right? Incredibly effect! I love it.
The gerberas are in plastic water tubes that have pointed ends. The stems are pushed through a rubber stopper at the top-so no water leaks out. The green styrofoam forms are geometric shapes intended for some kind of finishing, or overcoat. I use these foam forms to make topiary sculptures-but I like the looks of the forms themselves.