Deni Bown

Background

Deni Bown was born on January 28, 1944 in Doncaster, United Kingdom. The daughter of Frederick W. H. and Margaret (maiden name: Staples; present surname: Howard) Hobbs.

Education

Deni graduated from Victoria University of Manchester with the B.A. degree (with first class honors) in 1966.

Career

Deni worked as an etymologist at Laurence Urdang Associates, Aylesbury, United Kingdom from 1972 till 1977. She was a lecturer at Newbury College, Newbury, United Kingdom in 1982-1984. A self-taught botanist, she then pursued a varied career in horticulture, running an organic smallholding, growing orchids professionally, and working for 5 years to help establish Hollington Herbs before taking to the camera and word processor. She is currently a writer and photographer at Deni Bown Associates, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. She has photographed botanic gardens in Europe, the United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, India, and Australia, and is also a regular researcher and photographer at both Kew and Edinburgh.

Achievements

• Deni Bown is a respected and well-known writer. She received awards as a photographer and writer.

Works

More photos

• book

  • New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses
  • Growing Herbs
  • Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family
  • Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses
  • Eyewitness Garden Handbooks: Garden Herbs
  • Orchids (Green World) by Deni Bown (1992-01-03)

Views

Quotations: “Joy is behind my writing and photography. All as¬pects of plant life inspire me, from details of biology, shapes, textures, colors, and scents to uses and mean¬ings. My aim is to communicate the importance of plants—ecological, cultural, economic, and aes¬thetic—in ways that combine the practical and scien¬tifically accurate with the inspirational in terms of words and images.”

Membership

In 1997, after working for several years as a council member, she became chairman of The Herb Society of America.

• She became chairman of The Herb Society of America in 1997.

  Herb Society of America , United States

Interests

• Ethnobotany, ecology, travel, gardening, dance, yoga, ethnic food, frogs, plants in art

Connections

Deni married and divorced twice. She married Peter J. A. Muir on November 20, 1993. Deni Bown is now married with 5 children. Some of them are Anna F. Green, William H. Y. Green, Robin Bown.

Father:

Frederick W. H. Hobbs

Mother:

Margaret Howard

Spouse:

Peter J. A. Muir

child:

Anna F. Green

child:

William H. Y. Green

child:

Robin Bown