Peta "Bunny" Guinness (born Dec 1955) 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. 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.
She exhibits regularly at the Chelsea Flower Show, where she has won six gold medals. Her core business, Bunny Guinness Landscape Design Limited, is based near Peterborough in central England.
Video Bunny Guinness
Family
Her father was Squadron Leader Peter William Ellis, DFC and her mother Barbara Helen Stockitt (née Austin). She married Kevin Michael Rundell Guinness in 1976, a member of the Guinness brewing family. Her mother and cousin both run plant nurseries and her uncle is the rose breeder David C.H. Austin. Her daughter, Unity, is, as of 2010, a student of landscape architecture. 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.
Maps Bunny Guinness
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
External links
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
0 Comments