Bunny Guinness
Peta "Bunny" Guinness (née Ellis; born 16 December 1955) 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. 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.
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 the East Midlands of England.
Guinness opposes a ban on the use of peat in horticulture, saying the alternatives are less sustainable. Banning peat, she says is virtue signalling.
She was listed in House & Garden magazine in 2021 as one of the top 50 garden designers in the UK.
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 is sister of rose breeder David C.H. Austin, who named a rose after her. Her daughter, Unity, has a degree in landscape architecture and works with her.
Bunny is a nickname given by her family; as a baby her dark eyes made her resemble a currant bun.
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.
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- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Dixon, Rachel (15 July 2026). "The battle over peat: why do some gardeners still insist on using it?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
- ↑ "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 23 September 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
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