Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced landscape and garden designer whose firm first opened its doors in 1986.
Sweet Alyssum
White Pansy
Petunia
Star Magnolia
Star Magnolia
Apple
White Annual Phlox
White Dahlia
Dogwood
Magnolia "Galaxy"
Magnolia "Galaxy"
Tulips
Rhodendron PJM
Rhodendron PJM
Snowdrift Crabapple
Royalty Crabapple
Unknown Magnolia
Fuschia
Magnolia
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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