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 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] Her core business, Bunny Guinness Landscape Design Limited, is based near Peterborough in the East Midlands of England. [6]
She was listed in House & Garden magazine in 2021 as one of the top 50 garden designers in the UK. [7]
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]
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 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] Her core business, Bunny Guinness Landscape Design Limited, is based near Peterborough in the East Midlands of England. [6]
She was listed in House & Garden magazine in 2021 as one of the top 50 garden designers in the UK. [7]
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]