At A Glance: Summer Planting At The Shop
Posted on: June 20, 2010 4 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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I’m loving the white/grey/green combo you have going here…..I hope readers will take note and use the same color scheme in all their pots around the home. I’m so tired of seeing clashing pot themes, aren’t you?
Deborah, out of all the containers you share here on the blog, I always like the ones at the store the best. Happy belated Birthday.
Dear Sarah, I always like my own pots at home the best. They are my taste-and just for me. Of course I like them. Second best, I like what I do for clients-I just need to post better pictures. The shop-it is easy to photograph a good moment. Other places-I do not get to so often. One client whom I plant green and white-to which I added some grey, came to my house. All they want next year is some color! (I planted pink and red this year). I promise to take better pictures of projects-I have some out there I think you would like.
Garden photography-it can be misleading. Great garden photographs are about capturing the perfect moment-not at all about what constitutes a great garden. But I am pleased you like where I am going with the shop planting-I worry about how to do it like crazy, and am exhausted when it is finally planted! Deborah
It looks wonderful as always!!