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By: Bunny Guinness
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  • Bunny in the Garden with someone special, someone who is well known for something other than their green fingers but who is also a mustard keen gardener. Bunny Guinness discover a range of guests through their garden, why, how and when they garden, the best tips they’ve learnt and their gardening style and approach.
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  • 21: Guy Singh-Watson

    21: Guy Singh-Watson
    May 17 2024
    In this episode Bunny chats to Guy Singh-Watson, who set up Riverford.

    Guy graduated from Oxford with a first class degree in Agriculture and Forestry despite being severely dyslexic, following a brief period working in New York as a management consultant he returned to his Devon roots and started growing veg on a 3 acre plot with a wheel barrow and tractor. He built this into a business with an £11million pound turnover in 2022.

    He is now starting to create a garden adjacent to the sea – Derek Jarmen style but with a few raised beds to grow -you’ve guessed it- veg.

    Guy gives advice about growing veg, and tells Bunny about his extraordinary life.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 20: Plum Sykes

    20: Plum Sykes
    May 10 2024
    This week Bunny chats to Plum Sykes in her garden, in Gloucestershire.

    Christened Victoria but nicknamed Plum, she grew up with parents who had an extravagant lifestyle, mixing in high society circles, but with little money. Graduating from Oxford, Plum went to work for Vogue in the States.

    A successful novelist Plum is about to launch her latest book ‘Wives Like Us’ a satire based on the Chipping Norton set. Even before the release of the book, locals are guessing who exactly the main characters portrayed are based on! The hugely popular character, Shelby Fairfax is a Landscape Architect and Plum explains why she made this choice.

    Plum’s own garden is stylishly simple, and she talks about why it suits her, her favourite plants, whether she is a socialite and how she developed her fashion style on arriving in the Vogue offices.
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    50 mins
  • 19: Georgia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort

    19: Georgia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort
    May 3 2024
    Today Bunny Guinness is in the gardens of Badminton House, with Her Grace, The Duchess of Beaufort. In this episode Bunny talks to Georgia, Duchess of Beaufort, about the gardens. Hear about the stunning tulip planting Georgia has been in charge of, to give the garden more spring appeal.

    Georgia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, married Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort in 2018. Georgia is the grand daughter of the novelist Anthony Powell, she studied classics at Oxford University, before becoming a columnist and obituarist for The Daily Telegraph.

    Georgia, a keen gardener, is cataloguing the plants in the amazing gardens of Badminton House. There are many as Mary, Duchess of Beaufort, was one of Britain’s earliest distinguished women gardeners. Mary got into horticulture as she was trying to find a plant to ease her melancholy. She then began seriously collecting plants from many countries in the 1690’s, introducing more than 1500 plants, including Pelargonium zonale. Mary Somerset commissioned Everad Kickius to illustrate her choice exotics, and these are in her two volume florilegium which is still in the library at Badminton. Georgia is arranging for high quality prints to be made of a selection of these, so that they can be more widely appreciated.
    These fine gardens have been enhanced by a range of designers, including Charles Bridgeman, Capability Brown, Russell Page, and François Goffinet. Georgia’s husband’s mother, Caroline, was a keen and knowledgeable gardener, as is his step mother, Miranda, both who have put their stamp on the stunning gardens.

    In addition, the Badminton Estate are now working with the Royal Horticultural Society to create a new flower show in the historic grounds of the house in 2026, alternating with RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival which will become a biennial event in two years.

    To see what the garden looks like, Bunny Guinness’s YouTube ‘How the new Duchess of Beaufort is shining a light on the gardens of Badminton House.’ Is up now…

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