Pepper is Creative Director and Head Plantsman of Magic Hour. Totally unconventional and largely self-taught, her understanding of gardening and design comes from years and years of devoted study and microscopic observations of the plants themselves. She thinks of saving seed and she also sees tender shoots and the sprouts below burgeoning flowers in a momentary glitter. Pepper has an innate ability to let lie, she's pensive in her focus, and she navigates with precision. When it's an intensive flurry of the incalculable weather, drastic beauty and spectacular wondrous natural distraction; like a wild foxglove, in a place where it's necessary to discern, she has assiduous grace. She steadily works with uncomplicated methods and sophisticated ideas.

For nearly two decades, Pepper has engaged in close collaboration with herbal mentors, horticulture masters, vegetable farmers, and genius outdoor designers in an extensive variety of formats and is also proud to be a part of a vibrant and supportive community of local nurseries & flower farmers, floral creators, and growers in the region who all inspire each other with their incredible work and their enthusiastic blooms.

When she’s not out in the field, you can find her pouring her creativity into multidisciplinary art meanderings and shaping landscapes, on paper and at her home studio and garden in the Hudson Valley.