At A Glance: Rosemary
Posted on: August 13, 2011 3 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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What is the secret to getting rosemary to grow so big and full? The giant one I. The blue box container is amazing!
Dear Erin, that rosemary is 25 years old. Every winter, it goes to the greenhouse for a little R and R-from a professional grower. They are tough to keep-they are so prone to powdery mildew, and they need spot on watering. Deborah
I’m in Kansas now, enjoying the challenges (and how!) of gardening in the Plains, but now and then I long for California and my seven-foot-tall hedges of rosemary. “Hill’s Hardy” can make it in-ground through a Kansas winter (zone 5), but only if specific conditions are met, and even then not reliably.