Once a year we have spring in Michigan, and this is it. Ha. Let that big talk on my part sink in a little. I am not at all sure we are having spring yet. Maybe what we have now is just a cold, rainy, and off putting version of pre-spring. Maybe I missed [...] The post Once A Year And This Is It first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
Sixteen years ago, on April 1 of 2009, I published a blog post, appropriately entitled “Vernissage”. The title of the post was my very loose interpretation of the French word that refers to art openings. As much as the essay signaled the opening of my gardening season, it was a very special beginning for me. [...] The post Vernissage Again first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
I usually write about hydrangeas in the late summer, when they are gracing most every garden in my zone with their armloads of marvelously frothy flowers. Ha. Hopefully that written description sounds just as extravagant as they appear in full bloom. This shrub, and all of its many iterations and cultivars, energizes and endows our [...] The post Do It Now first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
As much as a landscape and garden evolves over time, the same could be said for a gardener. Those of us who garden probably don’t give much time to that thought, as the process can take years and really never ends. No one becomes a gardener overnight. Just like a landscape does not come in [...] The post Let It Be first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
The picture above was taken in the early morning of Jan 3, 2021. I remember waking up well before dawn to a landscape whose every surface was transformed by mounds of snow. Giant snowflakes floated downward on the still air like feathers, and stuck to whatever surface they touched first. The quiet was disconcerting. My [...] The post Good Bones first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
To follow is a visual collection of light rings which we have placed in winter containers over the past 15 years or so. This first picture is a detail of the last. The last picture features our current display of them at the shop. I am very pleased that adding strings of twig garland lights [...] The post At A Glance: The Lighted Rings first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
It was not my intent to give the impression that the time it took to write my previous post was in any way comparable to the time it took to light up that first vintage steel hoop and end up manufacturing steel light rings. In face I want to discourage that interpretation. That post was [...] The post Taking the Next Step first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
It is probably close to 15 years ago that Rob wrapped a vintage steel tractor tire hoop with a string of incandescent holiday lights, and hung it in a tree. On a whim, I might add. A hank of ten ends jute attached to the top of the ring at one end, and a stout [...] The post Ringing In The 2025 Winter Season first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
Detroit Garden Works hosted its first Garden Cruise to benefit the Greening of Detroit since 2019. I feel an intense satisfaction in being able to write that sentence. Perhaps some background for those readers who are not familiar with this event should come first. The Garden Cruise is a celebration of a lot of events. [...] The post The Garden Cruise July 23, 2023 first appeared on Deborah Silver & Co..| Deborah Silver & Co.
2000 To follow is a substantial run of pictures from my winter container arrangement archives-the photo collection and work dates back 21 years. I am as surprised to see this as you are. I did not think there were this many years and that much history-but here it is. I did not compare every picture| Deborah Silver & Co.
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Once a year we have spring in Michigan, and this is it. Ha. Let that big talk on my part sink in a little. I am not at all sure we are having spring yet. Maybe what we have now is just a cold, rainy, and off putting version of pre-spring. Maybe I missed it – could our spring be just about over? Or is the real spring due here any minute. There are always caveats that come with any discussion of the change from one season to the next. Especially our spring. It was 35 degrees at my house thi...| Deborah Silver & Co. | Deborah Silver is an accomplished and experienced land...
