Bunny Guinness
Peta "Bunny" Guinness (born 1955)[1] is a 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 gained a BSc honours degree in horticulture at Reading University, followed by qualifying 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 central England.[6]
Family
Guinness is her married name; her husband, Kevin Michael Rundell Guinness, is a member of the Guinness brewing family.[7][8] Her mother and cousin both run plant nurseries and her uncle is the rose breeder David C.H. Austin.[9] Her daughter, Unity, is, as of 2010, a student of landscape architecture.[10] Her son, Freddie, decided to pursue a different path and is studying medicine at St. George's College, University of London.
Bunny is a nickname given by her family, as a baby her dark eyes made her resemble a currant bun.[11]
Bibliography
- 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
- ↑ "Company director details". CompanyCheck. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/presenterbiogs_g.shtml BBC bio'
- ↑ http://www.bunnyguinness.com/
- ↑ "Professor David Roberts: Biography". Birmingham City University. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ↑ http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/more-programmes/about-bunny-guinness-08-06-19_p_1.html
- ↑ http://www.bunnyguinness.com/contact.html/
- ↑ Stone, Deborah (21 March 2009). "The light fantastic". The Daily Telegraph. Best of Britain & Ireland, p. 3.
- ↑ "The Peerage". The Peerage. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ↑ Horwood, Catherine (2010). Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. Hachette UK. ISBN 978-0-7481-1833-5.
- ↑ Guinness, Bunny (2010-05-28). "Chelsea Flower Show 2010: Bunny Guinness gets inspired by show gardens' features". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ↑ "Soil sister Bunny Guinness talks Cambridge, Chelsea and Radio 4". Cambridge News. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2015.