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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Love the urn with the collar of white flowers and the greens exploding to the heavens. What are the plants?
Dear Marjorie, rosemary in the center. Alyssum all around. Deborah
You certainly know how to bring sunshine on a cloudy day!
Love the parsley and pansy combination as well as the alyssum and rosemary, simply beautiful combo’s!
Is that curly parsley in large basket?
curly parsley and lettuce.
your pictures speak a thousand words,
your words speak a thousand pictures,
you are a pleasure
thanks, Howard
Your pictures always give me so much inspiration! I think I’ll be borrowing a few of these ideas for my own yard.
Gorgeous!!!!!
thanks Nancy!
Pewter and red-orange tones…brilliant!
Hello, lovely and inspiring ideas as always! I have a question on espilairs, and plant which has always intrigued me- how quickly do they fill in? I know you are in MI, A different climate, but generally, is there a range of time that they fill in in front of a fence say, or block out something? Hope my question makes sense, thanks for a great blog and I always love your garden honesty.
Dear Mary, I can’t really answer your questions. How much a plant will grow entails lots of different factors. Thanks for reading. Deborah