Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced landscape and garden designer whose firm first opened its doors in 1986.
gravel walk
walk parallel to the drive
stone walkway
gravel and stone
limestone slabs
wood walk
old brick walk
concrete aggregate walk
gravel walk and terrace combination
blue stone and limestone
gravel walk
stone on the diagonal
cobblestone walk
stone walkway
random flag walk
blue stone and granite setts
grass walk
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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All are appealing in their own way. As I get older and my balance lets me know that every now and then, safe walkability becomes more and more important. I am in awe of the robustness of the hostas along the concrete aggregate walk..that’s your payoff for those cold winters.
What kind of gravel is used on the walkways in the pictures above?
Jane, there are several different kinds. Each quarry has their own special gravel, whether it be crushed stone or crushed granite. Best, Deborah
Thanks I needed that … a pleasure to walk thru
Deborah,this is so interesting so many different materials adapted beautifully to the sites.It’s like a course in walkways! Janet
Lovely walking with you. I did notice there were no brick pavers. Is there a reason for that?
Really lovely fit-to-site walkways. As usual you have given your readers pictures that speak many thousands of words about art principles in landscaping. Love your work!
I love gravel! Recently had my crumbling asphalt driveway replaced with beautiful, crunchy gravel. Only drawback is weeds. We don’t use herbicides, so there’s a lotta pulling by hand. Thanx for the pix.
I don’t know how I stumbled across your blog, but wow! I love all the varieties of walkways and
I also have to say the windowboxes in that top photo are STUNNING.