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 has regularly published articles in Carolina Gardener Magazine since 1993. She recently 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 is also currently writing for Fifteen501 and Wake Living Magazines and is a member of the Triangle Area Freelancers.

A member of the Garden Writers Association of America, she wrote “Perennially Yours”, a gardening column for the Raleigh News & Observer, for five years; and, was honored by The News & Observer as “Tarheel of the Week” in May 1997.

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.