- Stefan Buczacki
Dr. Stefan T. Buczacki is a British
horticulturist , broadcaster and author.After growing up in
Duffield ,Derbyshire , where he was educated at The Ecclesbourne School, he gained a first-class honours degree in botany atSouthampton University , and a D.Phil. in forest science at Oxford, before starting a career in research for the Agricultural Research Council at the National Vegetable Research Station atWellesbourne ,Warwickshire . He gained an international reputation as a plant pathologist before leaving research to become a freelance author and broadcaster in 1984. [http://www.cmmol.net/stefan_buczacki.htm Stefan Buczacki at CMM] ] He now lives inStratford-upon-Avon .His subsequent broadcasting work included twelve years as a panel member and then chairman of "
Gardeners' Question Time ", contributing to over six hundred consecutive editions. He also devised and presented "The Gardening Quiz", on BBCRadio 4 and "Classic Gardening Forum" onClassic FM . He has also appeared frequently on British television embracing contributions to all five terrestrial channels and includingGardeners' World onBBC 2 as well as many series on satellite and regional stations. He is credited as Britain's second biggest selling gardening author, with about 50 books to his name on both gardening and natural history. His "Fauna Britannica" was an account of the entire wild animal life of the British Isles for which HRH thePrince of Wales wrote the Foreword. He has written for many national newspapers and magazines. He is a Fellow of theInstitute of Biology , a Chartered Biologist, a founder Fellow of theInstitute of Horticulture ,a Fellow of theLinnean Society of London , Associate of theRoyal Photographic Society , and Honorary Professor of Plant Pathology atLiverpool John Moores University . He is an authority on fungi and past-President of theBritish Mycological Society and was awarded the Society's Benefactor's Medal. He is a Fellow ofCAB International , holds an Honorary Doctorate from theUniversity of Derby and was installed asPershore College 's first Honorary Fellow in 2007. He also has an interest in modern British political history and is recognised internationally as an authority onWinston Churchill and his house atChartwell , described in his book "Churchill and Chartwell".Buczacki has been an outspoken critic of makeover gardening programmes on television believing it is more important to show people how to garden than to pretend to do it for them. Like his similarly outspoken friend
Geoff Hamilton , his achievements have pointedly never been recognised by theRoyal Horticultural Society . [Horticulture Week, 7 June 2007]References
External links
* [http://stefanbuczacki.co.uk/profile.html Stefan Buczacki website]
* [http://www.pershoreforward.co.uk Pershore College Horticultural Employers' Group]
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