Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced landscape and garden designer whose firm first opened its doors in 1986.
container planting with repeating elements
planting in rows
Limelight hydrangeas and boltonia
repeating container planting
mass of picea mucrunulatum and hellebores
variegated Krossa Regal hosta
drivecourt enclosed by yews
drive edged in yews and boxwood
boxwood planted repeatedly
panicum virgatum and verbena bonariensis
repetition
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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That first planter is so gorgeous! What plants are in it?
glad you like it! Variegated sage, lavender, “citron” alyssum, and a blue foliaged sedum (whose name I cannot remember-sorry)
reading Dirt Simple…
you are toooo funny!
Such a simple lesson, but so necessary.