Libby Houston was born on 1941 and is an English poet and botanist.
12 Facts About Libby Houston
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Libby Houston was educated at Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford.
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Libby Houston published her first collection of poetry, A Stained Glass Raree Show, in 1967, followed by Plain Clothes in 1971, At the Mercy in 1980, Necessity in 1988, A Little Treachery in 1990, and All Change in 1993.
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Libby Houston has appeared on BBC radio broadcasts for children since the early 1970s.
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Libby Houston was widowed in 1974, and married Roderick Jewell in 1979, moving that year to Bristol.
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Libby Houston received a certificate in Science Biology from the University of Bristol.
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In 2012, Libby Houston was a research associate in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, assisting Lewis Frost with his study of the flora of Avon Gorge in Bristol.
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Libby Houston discovered a new hybrid of the tree, to which her name has been given, on a cliff of the Avon Gorge in 2005.
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Libby Houston found the rare Libby Houston's Whitebeam, a hybrid between the Common Whitebeam and the Bristol Whitebeam.
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The Libby Houston's Whitebeam was one of fourteen new whitebeam trees officially named in the February 2009 issue of Watsonia, the journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles.
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Libby Houston's research included the Wye Valley, where she discovered three of the new whitebeams.
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Libby Houston is a member of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, and the Somerset Rare Plants Group.