Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced landscape and garden designer whose firm first opened its doors in 1986.
The 2011 Woodward Dream Cruise is today. It is the world’s largest 1 day automotive event, drawing over a million visitors, and upwards of 30,000 classic cars. I went early this morning. It’s a happening, yes.
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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it would appear to me that what these photos illustrate is passion. something that your blog and your writing is grounded in. the thought, the engineering, the attention to detail, and the desire that went into each of those cars – the search for the correct color, the right sound of the exhaust note, the horsepower, the overall look, is no less a quest than growing the perfect plant in the perfect place. whether you have grease or dirt under your fingernails, the pursuit is the same. gardeners and hot rodders aren’t very different. they are both consumed by their passion. one planted in the earth and one dedicated to mobility. and both are dedicated to their own love of beauty.