Pam and co-author Laura Peters completed their first collaborative book, Best Garden Plants for North Carolina, released by Lone Pine Publishing in February, 2006.

"Small enough to take to the garden center or nursery, this book contains all the gardening information you need to decide which plants to select and how to care for them in your regional garden." Forbes.com Book Club

Click HERE for recent reviews of Best Garden Plants for North Carolina, by Pam Beck and Laura Peters, Softcover, 176 pages, $16.95, ISBN 976-8200-10-3.

Pam regularly published articles in Carolina Gardener Magazine since 1993. She was awarded the Silver Trowel Award for magazine-writing for 2006 by the Garden Writer's Association of America for her May 2005 article "For the Love of Magnolias" in Carolina Gardener. She had another CG article on heirloom tomatoes reprinted in Seed Saver's Exchange. Pam also wrote for Wakefield, Fifteen501, and Wake Living Magazines. Her newspaper credits include the Raleigh News & Observer, The Wake Weekly, The Ivy Dispatch, and The Raleigh Extra. Pam is an active member of the Triangle Area Freelancers.

Bobby Ward, Pam Beck, and Toby Bost at booksigning event at The Garden Hut in Fuquay-Varina, NC.

Sample of Publications

• Gardener's Confidence Collection, Get into the Spring of Things with Hydrangeas, published July 2007.
• Raleigh News & Observer, Friends across the ages, published Feb. 28, 2004.
• Raleigh News & Observer, Shrubs to delight eyes and nose in winter, published Jan. 17, 2004.

Writing samples are available upon request by emailing Pam Beck.