Deborah Peterson has spent the last 40 years in a wide variety of horticultural pursuits. She was a founder of The Manhattan Orchid Society, a founder of the Rare Pit & Plant Council, and the editor of their newsletter The Pits for 25 years. She has contributed to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbooks, lectured extensively on gardening with pits, seaside gardening, herbs, orchids, and ecumenical gardening. Deborah is the proprietor of Landmark Landscaping and has landscaped and designed many gardens and private parks in NYC and Massachusetts.