Meet Pam Hunter

Houseplant Enthusiast - Writer - Educator - Artist

Pam Hunter is a lifelong plant lover with more than 50 years of hands-on experience growing, propagating, experimenting with, and caring for houseplants. Her relationship with plants began long before houseplants became trendy—rooted in curiosity, careful observation, and decades of learning directly from the plants themselves.

Pam studied Business Administration at Portland State University and later Psychology with a minor in Biology at George Fox University. Alongside her formal studies, she pursued independent study in plant morphology and served as a 4-H leader. Her interest in biology, particularly plant structure and how plants respond to their growing conditions, continues to shape the practical way she approaches plant care and explains it to others.

Her working life has been just as varied. Pam spent years as an administrative assistant at a rural hospital on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, has about a decade of experience designing websites, and is also an artist who has worked in drawing and painting. Those interests in organization, communication, science, and creativity all come together in her work today.

In 2024, Pam made an unexpected move to McClusky, North Dakota, and began rebuilding both her plant collection and the next chapter of her life. From that fresh start grew Pam’s Rooted in Green—a place to share the knowledge accumulated through a lifetime of growing plants.

Today, Pam creates practical houseplant-care information, books and guides, videos, and specialty growing mixes. She especially enjoys experimenting with propagation, substrates, semi-hydro growing, and the sometimes puzzling problems that occur with real plants in real homes. Rather than presenting plant care as a set of rigid rules, she encourages observation: look at the plant, understand what it is telling you, and adjust accordingly.

Pam’s goal with Pam’s Rooted in Green is simple: to make plant care understandable, useful, and approachable while continuing to learn right alongside the people who follow her work.

“I’m starting over, but I’m not starting from scratch. The knowledge is still with me—it just needs a new shelf, a new window, and maybe a few new roots.”