BY HELEN PAPATHANASIOU

Special to The Press

Pamela Hubbard presented the program, “My Cottage Garden: English Style, American Challenges,” to the Parkland Garden Club Aug. 8, at Jordan Lutheran Church, Orefield.

The meeting was very well attended with 29 members and 14 guests present.

Hubbard was born in England and learned the love of gardening from her grandmother.

She has been a garden writer, educator and speaker for more than 12 years.

Her monthly newspaper article, “Gardening in the Poconos,” earned a GardenComm Media 2019 silver medal.

Hubbard, a Master Gardener emerita, is frequently asked to train new gardeners for Penn State Extension.

Her gardens have received three blue ribbons from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

She is dedicated to her dream and has been successful in recreating her grandmother’s cottage garden in the Poconos, where she lives.

Hubbard presented a slide-show of the different stages in the creation of her English cottage garden. She described the design elements of the garden and gave examples of plants appropriate to conditions in the Poconos.

She showed photographs of her gardens here and of gardens in England and pointed out the differences between a cottage garden in England and in America.