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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]
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