Marion Mako is a freelance garden historian and designer who has worked in both the UK and USA, specialising in English herbaceous planting. She has an HNC in Garden Design as well as a Masters in Garden History from the University of Bristol where she occasionally also lectures. She has carried out research on public and private gardens covering a wide variety of subjects such as; gardens of the artists Alfred Parsons and Edward Hornel, the history of the garden at Kellie Castle in Fife, eighteenth century cascades and The Courts garden in Wiltshire. In addition Marion leads bespoke garden tours and illustrated talks.

Marion has also presented several items about historic gardens and landscapes, on both BBC television and radio. She is currently researching the eighteenth century pleasure grounds at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshre, on behalf of the National Trust

Marion has made a short piece on hidden historic gardens of the West Country to be aired on BBC1’s Inside Out West in 2011. She is also currently researching a 1920s Rose Garden in London and Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire for the National Trust as well as the gardens of the University of Bristol for a forthcoming guidebook.

She lives near Bristol and Bath, where she attempts to garden her unruly plot and make good use of all the garden produce.