Deni Bown
Author of Encyclopedia of herbs & their uses
About the Author
Deni Bown has been a gardener and botanist all her life, starting with a childhood fascination with her grandfather's lilies and tulips and a passion for finding and identifying wildflowers. After a varied career in horticulture, Deni Bown became a freelance botanical and horticultural writer and show more photographer and was a winner in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in 1986. Her first book, Aroids -- Plants of the Arum Family, is a standard work on that family, and she won a Garden Writers' Association of America Award in 1990 for Alba -- The Book of White Flowers. Deni Bown lectures widely and has made television and radio broadcasts about her work. Renowned as a lone traveler, she has trekked into remote parts of the world in search of unusual plants. show less
Works by Deni Bown
Kräuter - Die große Enzyklopädie 3 copies
L'enciclopedia delle erbe 1 copy
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- Gender
- female
- Places of residence
- Norfolk, England, UK
- Map Location
- United Kingdom
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A good book to identify herbs that may already be in your garden. It offers the botanical name as well as the common with photographs of each. There are also short descriptions of each herb giving details to its cultivation, propagation and growing habit. Contains brief information regarding the ways in which to grow herbs. It's a good starting off point but not alot of indepth information.
Gorgeously illustrated and informative encyclopedia. Split into 6 mains sections.
1. History & current: history of herbs, list of major herbals, plant classifications & restrictions.
2. Designing a herb garden: number of designs and plantinmg lists illustrated with colour sketches.
3. Using herbs: culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses
4. Herbs in the wild: info on herbs used in different countries around the world
5. Herb catalogue: first part is A-Z illustrated with colour photos and key to show more parts of plant used, uses, hardines. Second part text only and expands on info given in keys under photos.
6. Cultivating herbs: how to choose, grow, propagate and harvest. show less
1. History & current: history of herbs, list of major herbals, plant classifications & restrictions.
2. Designing a herb garden: number of designs and plantinmg lists illustrated with colour sketches.
3. Using herbs: culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses
4. Herbs in the wild: info on herbs used in different countries around the world
5. Herb catalogue: first part is A-Z illustrated with colour photos and key to show more parts of plant used, uses, hardines. Second part text only and expands on info given in keys under photos.
6. Cultivating herbs: how to choose, grow, propagate and harvest. show less
A comprehensive list of herbs and their uses. Has sections on folklore and myth, herbs throughout history, books published about herbs, herb gardens, container gardens, and medicinal uses of herbs. Includes Latin names. Lots of incorrect and mistaken information about witches, witchcraft and paganism.
Clear photos, propagation, cultivation and uses well described. When my basil is dying, I'll turn to this!
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- Rating
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