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About Joy of Plants
Joy of Plants is led by Terri Jones and Susan A. Tindall. Terri and Susan work with Zenobyte Ltd, Pete Borlace Design Solutions and Slash Design Ltd to develop their plant information products.
Joy of Plants is the trading name of Better Company Associates Ltd.
History - When Terri met Susan, Joy of Plants was the result
Terri and Susan met in 2008 at an art event - the Henley Arts Trail. They discovered a mutual love of plants and cats. Susan commissioned Terri to draw her cat Derek, and over cups of tea they talked about plants, books and designing websites and applications so that they're easy to use. When Susan's publishing house Plant Press Ltd was closed in January 2010, they started talking about publishing plant info together... and Joy of Plants was born. They soon started work on designs for a web-based Plant Finder and iPhone application.
Development of the Joy of Plants plant information and technologies never stops - new plants and new technologies are growing around us all the time! |
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The Joy of Plants Team
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Terri Jones
Product designer & publisher, business manager
Favourite plant: Rosa 'Madame Alfred Carriere' rose
Other interests: Gardening, art see www.terrijonesart.com
Background: Terri has been involved with designing websites, applications for PCs and smartphones for the past 15 years, working for Psion Plc and then Symbian Ltd. She's also been a professional artist since 2005 and has painted portrait and mural commissions for many clients including Rt Hon. Theresa May. She's a keen amateur gardener.
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Susan A Tindall
Source of plant photos & information, plant expert, photographer & writer
Favourite plant: Primula vulgaris primrose
Other interests: Gardening, cooking, philosophy, people
Background: Susan has been compiling photos and information about plants for the last 20 years. She also spent 9 years as a professional garden designer. Her Plant database was originally published with another company Plant Press Ltd and was used as the basis of the following plant guides:
Geoff Hamilton’s Plant Encyclopaedia (DVD 2002)
Joe Swift’s Plant Encyclopaedia (DVD 2002-2007)
The Plant Press Plant Encyclopaedia at www.PlantPress.com (Website 2002-2011)
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Jeff Hull
Sales & marketing manager
Favourite plant: Rhododendron simsii - red Azalea
Other interests: Home town of Bewdley see www.bewdley.org, gardening, cooking, sport, films and TV.
Background: Jeff has been involved in sales and marketing throughout his career and can honestly claim to be “the man who introduced Barbecuing to the UK”, back in the mid-eighties. Subsequent product groups have been sold and marketed by Jeff into Garden Centres – ceramic planters, wooden toys, rugs and landscaping products - all very successfully.
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Steve Godfrey at Zenobyte Ltd
Technical guru, database, website and phone app developer
Favourite plant: Passiflora caerulea
Other interests: Everything Alderney see www.alderneyweb.com and www.alderney-accommodation.com
Background: Steve has been developing and publishing software for the PC, handheld computers and mobile phones since 1995. Via his company SGSoftware.com Ltd he completed development contracts for other companies including Symbian Ltd and Psion Computers PLC. In October 2002 he relocated to Alderney in the Channel Islands. Steve is now concentrating on developing software for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch via his company zenobyte.com, as well as hosting and designing websites for companies, including those based in Alderney trading as Alderney Web & IT Services. In September 2012 Steve returned to mainland Britain.
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Pete Borlace at Pete Borlace Design Solutions
Graphic designer
Favourite plant: Dracaena Draco dragon tree
Other interests: Exploring Snowdonia and flooking interesting things around us: http://www.flook.it/community/tinhat-pete/
Background: Pete's a graphic designer based in Snowdonia, UK, with over 10 years commercial experience working for a range of clients around the world. See www.pbdesignsolutions.com
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Nick Healey at Slash Design Ltd
Product designer, User Experience design consultant
Favourite plant: Helianthus annus 'Pacino' sunflower
Other interests: drumming (he's in a band called Arco) , cricket, writing
Background: Nick's an ex-techie & ex-senior exec of Psion Plc and Symbian Ltd, and he's lectured on User Experience Design at the University of East London. Nowadays he mainly just designs, from user research to wireframes. Since leaving Symbian he's undertaken a huge range of design consultancy work, on all kinds of mobile, internet and PC software and services for startups and large companies. See www.slashdesign.com for more details.
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