Peta "Bunny" Guinness (née Ellis; born 16 December 1955)[1] is a British chartered landscape architect, journalist and radio personality who is a regular panellist on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme, Gardener's Question Time.[2] She also writes a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph. She presented The Great Garden Challenge on Channel 4 in 2005.
Guinness took a BSc (Hons) in horticulture at Reading University, after which she qualified as a landscape architect at Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University). She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University in 2009.[3][4]
She exhibits regularly at the Chelsea Flower Show, where she has won six gold medals.[5] Her core business, Bunny Guinness Landscape Design Limited, is based near Peterborough in the East Midlands of England.[6]
She was listed in House & Garden magazine in 2021 as one of the top 50 garden designers in the UK.[7]
Family edit
Her father was Squadron Leader Peter William Ellis, DFC and her mother Barbara Helen Stockitt (née Austin).[8] She married Kevin Michael Rundell Guinness in 1976, a member of the Guinness brewing family.[9][10] Her mother is sister of rose breeder David C.H. Austin,[11] who named a rose after her.[12] Her daughter, Unity, has a degree in landscape architecture and works with her.[13][14] Her son, Freddie, decided to pursue a different path and is studying medicine at St. George's College, University of London.[citation needed]
Bunny is a nickname given by her family; as a baby her dark eyes made her resemble a currant bun.[15]
Bibliography edit
- Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)
- Family Gardens: How to Create Magical Spaces for All Ages (paperback, 128 pages, David & Charles, 2008, ISBN 978-0715327951)
References edit
- ^ "Guinness, Bunny, (born 16 Dec. 1955), landscape architect, journalist and broadcaster; Director, Bunny Guinness Landscape Design Ltd, since 1986". Who's Who. 2013. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258540. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/presenterbiogs_g.shtml Archived 2010-12-07 at the Wayback Machine BBC bio'
- ^ "Home". bunnyguinness.com.
- ^ "Professor David Roberts: Biography". Birmingham City University. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Categories - All 4".
- ^ "Bunny Guinness - Landscape Design". Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
- ^ "House & Garden's Top 50 Garden Designers". House & Garden. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ ‘GUINNESS, Bunny’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 1 Feb 2017
- ^ Stone, Deborah (21 March 2009). "The light fantastic". The Daily Telegraph. Best of Britain & Ireland, p. 3.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1697
- ^ Horwood, Catherine (2010). Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. Hachette UK. ISBN 978-0-7481-1833-5.
- ^ Barbara Austin rose
- ^ Unity Guinness
- ^ Guinness, Bunny. "Bunny Guinness". Bunny Guinness. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "Soil sister Bunny Guinness talks Cambridge, Chelsea and Radio 4". Cambridge News. 1 September 2011. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
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