Bunny Guinness Explained

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

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.

Bunny is a nickname given by her family; as a baby her dark eyes made her resemble a currant bun.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guinness, Bunny, (born 16 Dec. 1955), landscape architect, journalist and broadcaster; Director, Bunny Guinness Landscape Design Ltd, since 1986 . Who's Who . 2013 . 24 February 2021 . en . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258540. 978-0-19-954088-4 .
  2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/presenterbiogs_g.shtml BBC bio'
  3. Web site: Home . bunnyguinness.com.
  4. Web site: Professor David Roberts: Biography. Birmingham City University. 4 March 2012.
  5. Web site: Categories - All 4.
  6. Web site: Bunny Guinness - Landscape Design . 2012-01-12 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120125025138/http://www.bunnyguinness.com/contact.html . 2012-01-25 .
  7. News: House & Garden's Top 50 Garden Designers . 27 June 2021 . House & Garden.
  8. ‘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
  9. News: The light fantastic. Deborah. Stone. Best of Britain & Ireland, p. 3. The Daily Telegraph. 21 March 2009.
  10. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1697
  11. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. 978-0-7481-1833-5. Hachette UK. 2010.
  12. https://www.davidaustinroses.com/eu/barbara-austin Barbara Austin rose
  13. http://www.bunnyguinness.com/practice.html Unity Guinness
  14. Web site: Guinness . Bunny . Bunny Guinness . Bunny Guinness . 15 September 2018.
  15. News: Soil sister Bunny Guinness talks Cambridge, Chelsea and Radio 4. 7 August 2015. Cambridge News. 1 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923230121/http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Soil-sister-Bunny-Guinness-talks-Cambridge-Chelsea-Radio-4/story-22748946-detail/story.html. 2015-09-23. dead.

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