Pam Smith, the National Trust’s Senior National Consultant for gardens and parklands, with responsibilities for garden history, management and interpretation across the Trust’s 222 gardens and over 200 historic parklands. Pam is a horticulturist with over 35 years’ experience working across the public park, botanic and historic garden sectors.

Pam has published botanical walking guides and maps to encourage community engagement with urban botanical heritage and is a member of WalkSpace, the Midlands base collective of writers and artists who are intrigued by walking in all its forms.