Gay Search
Mary Gay Laryea (née Search; born 1 May 1945)[1] is an English television presenter and journalist. She worked on the BBC television series Gardeners' World with Geoff Hamilton, and on the series Front Gardens.
Gay Search | |
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| Born | Mary Gay Search 1 May 1945 Hammersmith, London, England |
| Occupations |
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| Television | Gardeners' World Front Gardens |
| Spouse |
Anthony Laryea (m. 1977) |
| Children | 2 |
Early life
Mary Gay Search was born on 1 May 1945 in Hammersmith, London to Ruth (née Tapsell) and Wilfred Search.[2][3] As a teenager, Search was a bystander in the capture of the Portland spy ring; her parents' house was used to surveil Peter and Helen Kroger, two members of the ring.[3]
Career
Search started her horticultural career writing the garden column for Woman magazine, with help from Alan Titchmarsh, who prevented her from writing "daft" things.[4] She devised and hosted gardening shows for BBC2 from 1988.[5] She worked as gardening editor for Sainsbury magazine for 13 years as well as the Radio Times.[4]
Search is also patron of the British Thyroid Foundation.[6]
Bibliography
- Front Gardens
- Gardening from Scratch
- Gardening without a garden
- Delia's Kitchen Garden, written with Delia Smith.
- Perfect Plants for Problem Places
References
- "My first home: Gay Search". 9 June 2001. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- "Mary Gay Search". FreeBMD. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- Dowd, Vincent (11 November 2014). "The spies in a suburban bungalow". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- Search, Gay (2003). BBC Gardeners'World Through the Years. London: Carlton Books Limited. p. 152. ISBN 1-84442-416-2.
- "Literary agents for novelists, travel writers, scientists, biographers, historians, television presenters, children's writers and literary illustrators - Gay Search". Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
- "British Thyroid Foundation Patrons". British Thyroid Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.