After an intensely re-imagined and heartfelt few weeks, all of the materials new and old we have available for winter and holiday expressions have been unboxed and put on display at the shop. Heartfelt? We work our collective hearts out to provide our clients with materials that recall, honor and celebrate the garden at year’s end. All 9600 square feet of it is stuffed to bursting with the beautiful, the whimsical, the traditional, the unusual – the satisfying and joyous signs of the winter and holiday gardening season on the way.
It was probably better than 25 years ago that Rob and I started shopping, collecting, and offering for sale materials suitable for winter arrangements for pots and containers. All of these materials – whether an astonishingly convincing replica of the real plant or flower, a collection of various fresh cut twigs and greens, or innovative lighting – have the potential to keep the hope and memory of the garden alive during our long winter season. What we have available in the shop today is as good as our experience and and will to celebrate gardening can provide. You’ll see.
Up next is a pictorial version of the shop, dressed, decked out, and ready for the season. If you are too far to make the trip, we want to share what we have the best we can. If you are close enough, we invite you to come and see what’s doing in person.
What could possibly be more forlorn and pathetic to a gardener than empty garden pots, or a landscape gone dark and dreary at year’s end?Finding a reason to celebrate seems like a much better idea. We intend to provide the chance to help keep the gardening season open and thriving all year round, in spite of the untoward winter weather and dark. If you see anything here that interests or intrigues you enough to inquire further, we are available.
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Even though I am 3000 miles away I would make the trip literally just to see your wonderful shop!
Thank you for this!
Stunning
So beautiful and inspiring!
I’m also 3000 miles away and wish I could visit your wonderful shop in person. The pictures are always a delight!
I’ve been a huge fan for a number of years now. I live on Nantucket Island whose nickname is the “Gray Lady” and she is aptly named. I started with the lighted hoops which I use in our office window boxes and then graduated to the lighted metal trees which I put up on the front lawn of my home. My “forest” keeps growing – I have seven of them now in varying heights. Simple but elegant! Just looking at the photos of the workshop makes my heart beat faster! Wish I were able to visit in person! .
Dear Kate, thank you for being such a strong supporter of our lighted steel rings and trees! I think they are terrific too. my best, Deborah
Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures of your shop. They are truly inspiring!
It’s beautiful and magical, as always!
An admirer from Canada – your artistic creations would light up our dark, long nights here as well! Love the beauty and simplicity of your designs, large and small. Thank you for the joy you bring – Dr. M. Jaworski (Ottawa)
there is little to say that the others have not all ready said. Magical, textural and the color palettes are comforting to my senses.
Thank you and like most, I wish i was closer .
Do you have a catalog?
Hello Diamond, and thank you for your letter. Our website is our catalogue. http://www.detroitgardenworks.com We have so many seasonal items it is impossible to list them all. So if you see something that interests you, get in touch. best, Deborah
Magnificent!
Every room is more inspiring then the next ..
Thank you for sharing each and every beautiful room .
Heartfelt is the perfect word to describe all that is reflected in your beautiful and masterful curation for the Winter season. Seeing all the carefully selected goods that will add to the story of homes and gardens this year and beyond has great depth reaching into my heart. Thank you for sharing all the lovely possibilities available in your shop.
Thank you so much for your letter Frances.
I love your shop and philosophy about gardens and seasons. I just finished foraging for my clients pots .. and completed the last one yesterday! I hope to visit your store eventually.
Happy Holidays🍂
A forever admirer of everything you do-my heart skips a beat when I receive your email I know upon opening it, what a treat awaits my senses! Your work and shop is extraordinary, this year, as always! Thank you for the magic you bring & happy holidays to you and yours
For us miles away thank you for the beautiful tour of your shop. Looking forward to your talented displays in the gardens of your clients.
There at the Works recently when displays were only half complete. Love your choices and your vision to put things together. My holiday favorite. Will return soon to see the full effect. Happy holidays to you all—thanks for enriching mine.
There is nothing in all of New England that compares with what you have created. I only wish I lived closer as just seeing your photos makes me want to be there in person. Perhaps someday! Thank you for sharing it all with us!
Just gorgeous! Wish we had you in Westport CT! Can you tell me what the “blue-ish stems” are in the 1st 3 photos?
Dear Susan, we have different styles and sizes of faux blue berry picks. Ad a blue-gray eucalyptus sold in bunches.If you are further interested, call the shop and ask for Jackie. She handles all of our on line sales and shipping. We ship all over the USA and Canada. best, Deborah
Like everyone who has posted I also have to open your posts immediately to see what beauty you have created. Thank you for sharing your beautiful store and really do enjoy seeing what you have created outdoors. We have lost so many native oak trees due to the extended drought in southwest Missouri. My shade bed in front of our house is now full sun. I have to research replacing plants for deer resistant plants as they have been so destructive past couple of years. Afraid to see how many more trees will have to be cut down next spring. Not easy to handle when you are seniors in 70’s but will get it done somehow.
You have always inspired me in so many ways. Not just my wonderful gardening but the interior as well. I see so many fascinating and beautiful items and it’s like shopping through the Sears catalog when I was a child. Every page is a treasure. Thank you for all the wonderful pictures and messages. I wish you the merriest of holidays and know that we all love what you do. You’re magical.
Dear Deborah – if you know how many times you have helped me out with Winter containers and landscape design! I’ve been a garden designer since 1998. You have such an awesome eye for the landscape. YOU are making me look good! I want to say thank you and I truly appreciate you being so generous with what you do. Your taste has become my taste…
Wish too that you were closer.
This post was so gorgous! I have missed your beautiful pics.