Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced landscape and garden designer whose firm first opened its doors in 1986.
purple pansies
Cathedral Sky Blue salvia
lavender bicolor violas and lettuce
lavender lisianthus
lime leaved coral bells and lavender streptocarpus
wisteria Blue Moon
Opal Moon escheveria, angelina, and sweet alyssum
lavender clematis
purple pansy mix
spring planting
carmine pansies and alyssum
purple violas and angelina
purple columbine
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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I count it a success when I read a blog post and find just what I needed that I didn’t know. I have a planting of rooted graptopetalum that needed ‘something’ but I couldn’t figure it out. Your photo of lavender succulent and purple alyssum fills that need! Why didn’t I think of purple alyssum? I forgot it comes in purple! Perfect. The companions are palest pink Pentas and Persian Shield.