Bunny Guinness
Bunny Guinness 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.[1] 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.[2][3]
She exhibits regularly at the Chelsea Flower Show, where she has won six gold medals.[4] Her core business, Bunny Guinness Landscape Design Limited, is based near Peterborough in central England [5].
[edit] Family
Guinness is her married name; her husband is a member of the Guinness brewing family.[6] Her mother and cousin both run plant nurseries and her uncle is the rose breeder David C.H. Austin.[7] Her daughter, Unity, is, as of 2010[update], a student of landscape architecture.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/presenterbiogs_g.shtml BBC bio'
- ^ http://www.bunnyguinness.com/
- ^ "Professor David Roberts: Biography". Birmingham City University. http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff/david-roberts#tabBiography. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/more-programmes/about-bunny-guinness-08-06-19_p_1.html
- ^ http://www.bunnyguinness.com/contact.html/
- ^ Stone, Deborah (21 March 2009). "The light fantastic". The Daily Telegraph: Best of Britain & Ireland, p. 3. http://www.e-pages.dk/thetelegraph/40/3.
- ^ Horwood, Catherine (2010). Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. Hachette UK. ISBN 9780748118335. http://books.google.com/books?id=RKqMMceJjukC&pg=PT303.
- ^ Guinness, Bunny (2010-05-28). "Chelsea Flower Show 2010: Bunny Guinness gets inspired by show gardens' features". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/chelseaflowershow/7771954/Chelsea-Flower-Show-2010-Bunny-Guinness-gets-inspired-by-show-gardens-features.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
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