Pam Baggett is a freelance writer and photographer who previously owned Singing Springs Nursery, in Cedar Grove, North Carolina, a nationally known mail-order nursery specializing in tender and hardy tropical plants.
She studied agriculture at North Carolina State University before apprenticing in the farm and garden programme at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
A member of the Garden Writers Association, Pam was awarded a Quill and Trowel award in 2000. Pam’s articles have appeared in publications including Fine Gardening, Horticulture and The American Gardener.
For six years Pam served as volunteer curator for the entrance garden (devoted to traffic-stopping tropical plants) at the J. C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, North Carolina. Pam currently teaches garden writing to adults, and has taught at Longwood Gardens, at the J. C. Raulston Arboretum and through Duke University’s Lifelong Learning program.
Pam lectures on tropicals and other garden topics to many groups, including events for Calloway Gardens, Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden and the Charleston Horticultural Society.
In her free time, Pam enjoys gardening, creative writing and swimming in the ocean.