Specialities

• Lecturer
• Sound Broadcaster: Local Radio
• TV Broadcaster
• Website Editor
• Website Writer
• Writer: Consumer Magazines
• Writer: Trade & Professional

Marilyn Elm

Full Member

Biography

Lecturer; writer: professional and consumer magazines; sound broadcaster: local; television broadcaster; website contributor;researcher. Qualified in landscape architecture and interior design. Studies in Historic Parks and Gardens and Conservation, York University. Experienced tutor and course leader. Specialist subjects: Garden/landscape history and design. Lecturer and speaker for universities and organisations including the RHS, The National Trust and NADFAS. Passionate about promoting our gardening heritage to the public through writing and 'pop-up' talks on a variety of related topics including the glasshouse, the lawnmower, garden tools,children and gardens, the gnome, wartime gardening etc. Conducts visits to historic gardens and others. Contributed to BBC TV ‘Flog It’, Gardeners World Roadshow (antique gardening tools) and ‘Gardens Through Time’. A founder member of the Yorkshire Gardens Trust.

Additional Interests

Cultural travel, photography,architecture,textiles and ceramics, design history, art.

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