Landscape architect
Bunny Guinness, 2011 Peta "Bunny" Guinness (née Ellis ; born 16 December 1955)[ 1] landscape architect , journalist and radio personality who is a regular panellist on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme, Gardener's Question Time [ 2] Sunday Telegraph 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] Peterborough in the East Midlands of England.[ 6]
She was listed in House & Garden [ 7]
Family
Her father was Squadron Leader Peter William Ellis, DFC and her mother Barbara Helen Stockitt (née Austin).[ 8] Guinness brewing family .[ 9] [ 10] David C.H. Austin ,[ 11] [ 12] landscape architecture and works with her.[ 13] [ 14] 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 . ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4 . Retrieved 24 February 2021 .^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/presenterbiogs_g.shtml Archived 7 December 2010 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 ^ 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 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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