Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced landscape and garden designer whose firm first opened its doors in 1986.
To follow are some pictures from previous garden tours. Enjoy them.
cutting garden
a bowl garden
front yard landscape
side yard landscape
a rose garden
contemporary landscape
garden in the front yard
sanctuary garden
pergola garden
pots on the steps
firepit
Rob’s garden
view from the second floor
a cutting garden
pots on the driveway
Fountain with an obelisk
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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Inspirational as usual Deborah!
Thanks Peter. best, Deborah
Love that first garden photo!
Dear Rob, as well you should! this garden of yours is incredibly beautiful. best, Deborah
Fantastic images. Thank you for sharing!!!
What are the pots used in the cutting garden?
The boxes in the cutting garden were custom made at the Branch Studio. best, Deborah
I enjoy looking at these pictures and feel almost like I have been on a garden tour. – One of my favorite hobbies.
Wow … much grander scale than the tours in our area though we seem to have more color 🙂
Hello Deborah, Great pictures, thanks for sharing. In the seventh picture (contemporary landscape) can you tell me the name of the large thin trees?
columnar beech
Inspirational, especially now when the weeds are taking over and I can see the the weaknesses in my design. Thanks for hope
Hi, Deborah! I love your work and read every post in this blog. Such a beautiful creations!
I also grow flowers in pots outside but never get such lavish cascading flowers like in the “pots on the steps” picture above. How do you achieve such performance from plants?
Dear Debra.
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy being on my deck this year and looking out to my yard with out trying to peek through those spindles. The best advice you could have given me was to take the spindle rails off my deck. I haven’t been in your store much lately but I wanted to pass that on. I really luv it. Thanks for your inspiration
Suzette
Dear Suzette, it is amazing how one little thing can make so much difference. You did not need railings-your deck is but one step above the grade of the yard. hooray for your much improved view! thanks for writing. best, Deborah
Oh wow wow wow! Next year perhaps.