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Stefan Buczacki
Born (1945-10-16) 16 October 1945 (age 78)
NationalityEnglish
Occupations
  • Horticulturist
  • botanist
  • biographer
  • broadcaster

Stefan T. Buczacki (born 16 October 1945)[1] is a British horticulturist, botanist, biographer, novelist and broadcaster.

Early life

Buczacki grew up in

Linacre College
, Oxford University.

Career

Buczacki started a career in research for the

Agricultural Research Council at the National Vegetable Research Station at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. As a plant pathologist he worked on the biology and control of a species of Phytomyxea, Plasmodiophora brassicae, the cause of clubroot disease.[2] He became a freelance author and broadcaster in 1984.[3] He lives in Stratford-upon-Avon
.

His broadcasting work included twelve years as a panel member and then chairman of

BBC1's daytime show Good Morning with Anne and Nick from 1992 to 1996.[4]

Buczacki is credited as Britain's second biggest selling gardening author,[citation needed] with over 60 books to his name on both gardening and natural history. His first book Collins Guide to the Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants, written jointly with Dr Keith Harris and illustrated by Brian Hargreaves, has remained the standard reference work for forty years, while his Fauna Britannica was an account of the entire wild animal life of the British Isles for which the then Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) wrote the foreword. He also wrote Volume 102 of Garden Natural History for Collins's New Naturalist series. He has written for a number of national newspapers and magazines.[citation needed]

Buczacki has been an outspoken critic of makeover gardening programmes on television, arguing that it is more important to show people how to garden than to pretend to do it for them.

Awards and distinctions

Buczacki is a Fellow of the

Warwickshire College. He also has an interest in modern British political history and is recognised internationally as an authority on Winston Churchill and his house at Chartwell, described in his book Churchill and Chartwell. In 2016 he published My darling Mr Asquith, a biography of the Hon Venetia Stanley, intimate confidante of prime minister H. H. Asquith. In 2020, Buczacki published his first novel The Marmalade Pot, the story of a young woman's search for her own sexuality, described by Fern Britton
as 'intriguing and satisfying'.

Personal life

Buczacki is married to Beverley, a retired school principal with whom he has two children: Simon, the Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professor of Colorectal Surgery at the University of Oxford, and Julian, a Major General in the British army.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. London: Guardian News & Media. 16 October 2014. p. 47.
  2. ^ Zoosporic Plant Pathogen, Academic Press 1983
  3. ^ Stefan Buczacki at CMM
  4. ^ "Good Morning ... with Anne and Nick". 16 October 1992 – via BBC Genome.
  5. ^ https://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/magazine-pdfs/linacre_news_55_for_www.pdf [bare URL PDF]

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