Pam Beck is a freelance garden writer, lecturer, and photographer.

Pam co-authored Best Garden Plants for North Carolina, by Lone Pine Publishing in February, 2006.

She regularly published articles in Carolina Gardener Magazine for 16 years. Pam wrote “Perennially Yours”, a monthly gardening column for the Raleigh News & Observer, for 5 years; and, she was honored by The News & Observer as their “Tarheel of the Week” in May 1997. She was awarded the Silver Trowel Award for magazine-writing for 2006 by the Garden Writer's Association of America. She was also a local garden scout and stylist for for Better Homes & Gardens magazine, and has been published in both Organic Gardening (now Organic Life) and The American Gardener magazines. She also enjoyed her role as "Expert Garden Writer" for Black Gold.

Her artistic nature and garden photography appears in various gardening magazines and books.

She has served on the Board of Advisors of the J C Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, the Arboretum at Johnston Community College in Smithfield, and the Urban Forestry Board of Wake Forest.

Pam’s busy speaking schedule takes her to various gardening groups throughout the Southeast. Garden symposium attendees are familiar with her enthusiastic, conversational, and information-packed presentations, and often request an encore.

Pam is an active member of Garden Writers and Triangle Area Freelancers.