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Pam's Projects
Garden Design & Coaching
Landscaping that's responsive, creative and ecological for your existing terrain and works in sync with the natural world. See my Gardens and Rates at the link in header.
Podcast
Parsley and Sage is a lively garden conversation with me and a fellow gardener, Jeanne Farewell. Episodes feature creative ideas and tips for garden design. Visit:
Photography
Focusing on the wonder of nature and the natural world, these photographs can be customized with a personal message. See my photos at the Photo Gallery link in header.
RECENT Garden Designs
Walled Garden
Kinsale, Ireleand
Foundation Planting
Barnstable, MA
Meadow
North Salem, NY
Meditation Garden
Waccabuc, NY
Design & Coaching Services
Dig BiG
Property Discovery
$250
Pam brainstorms your dream backyard:
- Site visit
- Garden bed ideas
- Curb appeal
- Paths
- Top trees, shrubs, flowers, grasses and bulbs
Property Digital
Starting at $2500
Pam puts it on paper:
- 2 Site visits
- Map of landscape areas
- Plant list
- Plant pictures
- Maintenance needs
- Plant budget
- Garden Nursery list
Property Planting
Starting at $2800
Pam plants it:
- 2 site visits
- Map of landscape areas
- Plant list
- Plant pictures
- Maintenance needs
- Plant budget
- Installation budget
Dig a Bit
Pam Picks
$250/Bed
- Site visit
- Plant list
- Plant photos
- Maintenance needs
- Garden Nursery list
Pam Presents
$1500/bed
- Site visit
- Bed design plan
- Plant list
- Plant photos
- Maintenance needs
- Plant budget
Pam Planting
$1800/bed
- Site visit
- Bed design plan
- Plant list
- Plant photos
- Maintenance needs
- Plant budget
- Installation budget
Dig together
Pam On Call
Starting at $3200
- 7 site or online visits April through September
- Availability within 48 hours
- Text support
- Resource sharing
- Maintenance advice
Writing
Winter Solstice
North Salem’s agricultural heritage is quite apparent this time of year. Fall turning to winter, we see inspiring expanses of open fields. Dense canopies have faded away, and…
January 16, 2024
A Gift of Remembrance
With the holidays here, we are often confronted with absence, the missing of loved ones, family or friends who once gathered with us at special occasions and have since passed…
January 16, 2024
Be eco-conscious about recycling
So much beauty in the natural world surrounds us here in North Salem. Even on the sultriest of summer days, nature lures us. Traveling around town–whether by foot, bike,…
August 25, 2023
Help Heal the Earth
Let’s help nature! In search of hopefulness for our stressed out environment, I recently attended a presentation by Doug Tallamy, professor of entomology and wildlife ecology at…
January 16, 2024
There's grass, and then there's good grass
Ornamental grass is a star in gardens around North Salem right now. Waving in the breeze, a standout and well-behaved native is switchgrass. It’s a worthy substitute for the…
August 25, 2023
Get Out...of your head
“Get out!” That’s a refrain of mine, and it’s normally not directed at a stranger, or my kids or my husband. It’s my inner voice (the wise one, not the critic) commanding me to…
February 7, 2023
PHOTO GALLERY
Printed on Sustainable Metal or Wood
Prints are vibrant and eco-friendly.
Contact me about custom-printing.
Short Bio
Hometowns: New York, NY; Greenwich, CT
Education: Amherst College BA and Teachers College, Columbia University MA
Interests: My family and community, the natural world,garden design, writing, conservation, creative and spiritual adventures
Following a career in public television production, my wonderful husband Eric, two lovely daughters, a gentle labrador retriever and I moved to a bucolic town in New York state, not far from the city, yet enticingly rural enough for me to drop a lot of what I was doing as I fell in love with gardening. Just as this evocation was taking root, Eric's job relocated us to London, land of fine horticulture, where I immersed further into exploring gardens and landscape design. For the past 17 years, back in our farmhouse, I relish cultivating, restoring and loving the land. I work with a handful of legacy garden clients, and I serve as Board Chair of our local land trust, North Salem Open Land Foundation and as Regional Ambassador for The Garden Conservancy Open Day Program.
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