Pepper Monroe

Pepper is a Landscape Designer and Head Plantsman at Magic Hour. 

Distinctly unconventional in her approach, her understanding of gardening and design comes from years and years of devoted study and microscopic observations of plant anatomy. 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 of the Catskills; 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.

Pepper brings nearly two decades of hands-on experience, formal study in Landscape Design and Architecture from the New York Botanical Garden and carries deep ties to the region's vibrant horticultural community.