Bunny Guinness

Bunny Guinness, 2011

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 gained a BSc honours degree 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 is 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.^{[citation needed]}

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

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[]

^ "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. 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'
^ 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
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2012-01-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "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 2015-09-23. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

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[whoswho-1] "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. Retrieved 24 February 2021.

[2] ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/presenterbiogs_g.shtml Archived 2010-12-07 at the Wayback Machine BBC bio'

[3] ttp://www.bunnyguinness.com/

[4] "Professor David Roberts: Biography". Birmingham City University. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

[5] ttp://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/more-programmes/about-bunny-guinness-08-06-19_p_1.html

[6] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2012-01-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[7] "House & Garden's Top 50 Garden Designers". House & Garden. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

[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] Stone, Deborah (21 March 2009). "The light fantastic". The Daily Telegraph. Best of Britain & Ireland, p. 3.

[10] Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1697

[11] Horwood, Catherine (2010). Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. Hachette UK. ISBN 978-0-7481-1833-5.

[12] Barbara Austin rose

[13] Unity Guinness

[14] Guinness, Bunny. "Bunny Guinness". Bunny Guinness. Retrieved 15 September 2018.

[15] "Soil sister Bunny Guinness talks Cambridge, Chelsea and Radio 4". Cambridge News. 1 September 2011. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

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