Dirt Simple is a blog focused on all aspects of landscape and garden design. Deborah Silver, who has been a landscape designer in Michigan for 23 years, also owns and operates Detroit Garden Works, a store devoted to fine objects for gardens. The blog f
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We spent over a week tearing apart a thirty year old landscape for this client. They had decided that though their kids were grown and gone, they would stay, and renovate both the inside and out of their family home. They had not ever spent much...
The watch I have had strapped to my wrist my entire working life is a marvel. In spite of the heat sweat water and dirt, it churns on. This little workhorse enables me to to organize and schedule any number of things. Being off or behind...
The history of wreathmaking dates back thousands of years. Round forms decorated with evergreens, berries and pine cones, symbolizing the harvest, are thought to have begun in ancient Rome. A fall wedding I once did with a decidedly Shakespearean...
I have finally resigned myself to the fact that one of my Princeton Gold maples will not recover. In obvious trouble for the past several years, I tried a number of remedies – aerating the soil, adding compost, careful watering, soil testing,...