Stefan Buczacki

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Dr. Stefan T. Buczacki is a British horticulturalist, broadcaster and author.

After growing up in Duffield, Derbyshire, he gained a first-class honours degree in botany at Southampton University, and a D.Phil. in forest science at Oxford, before starting a career in research. He gained an international reputation as a plant pathologist before leaving research to become a freelance author and broadcaster in 1984.^[1]

His subsequent broadcasting work included twelve years as a panel member and chairman of Gardeners' Question Time, contributing to over six hundred editions. He also devised and presented The Gardening Quiz, also on BBC Radio 4. He has also appeared frequently on British television. He is credited as Britain's second biggest selling gardening author, with about 50 books to his name, and has written for many national newspapers and magazines. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Biology and the Linnean Society of London, Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, and Honorary Professor of Plant Pathology at Liverpool John Moores University. He was installed as Pershore College's first Honorary Fellow in 2007.