Oo Wen The male Ho ' Din Oo Wen was owned as a slave by Gardulla Besadii , a crime lord of the Hutt species . Wen was a garden er and , together with several other Ho ' Din foresters , populated Besadii ' s luxurious if notorious indoor pleasure garden with exotic and dangerous plants . In 32 BBY , while working on the garden construction project , Wen defied his owner by not reporting the location of a group of Ghostling children who had escaped from the Hutt ' s captivity cells and whom the Ho ' Din gardener helped to hide within the garden . Biography . Oo Wen was a tall , male member of the Ho ' Din species . His skin was bright green and his fleshy tendril ' hair ' was violet in color . Although a garden er by profession , by 32 BBY he ' d been purchased as a slave by Gardulla Besadii . A Hutt crime lord , Gardulla commissioned an underground pleasure garden in her fortress on the desert planet , Tatooine . Wen was one of several Ho ' Din responsible for cultivating and maintaining the garden , which contained the diverse terrains of swampland , forest , waterfalls , and a lake , and was populated with many dangerous semi - sentient flora and fauna . The Ho ' Din foresters worked for a full season to prepare the garden with flowers and trees . The garden was also to contain various sentient beings as ornaments . To that end , the Besadii Hutt had several Wistie s released into the garden to serve as sources of illumination . Similarly , in 32 BBY , Gardulla ' s thugs captured a group of diminutive Ghostling children , which included their Princess , Arawynne , for use as garden ornaments . Arawynne and the Ghostlings were broken out of their cells by some Tatooine children , all slaves themselves — Kitster Banai , Anakin Skywalker , and Pala Kwi ' teksa — but soon returned to hide in the partially completed pleasure garden until the local children could organize a break - out from Besadii ' s compound . Wen and his fellow Ho ' Din were known to Banai , who was also enslaved to Gardulla , and the boy was confident that the Ho ' Din gardeners would protect the Ghostling children . Wen lived up to Banai ' s expectations ; as a nature lover — derisively called a " flower lover " by Sebulba the Dug , who ' d originally enslaved the Ghostlings for Gardulla — he was prepared to protect the Princess and her companions from the Hutt and her henchmen . At one point , while Wen was working with a small sapling , he saw Arawynne and two companions , Kwi ' teksa and a Wistie , across an open clearing . Wen waved the children forward , indicating that it was safe for them to cross the meadow . The Ghostling children , together with Kwi ' teksa and several Wisties , took refuge in a cave in the garden . Wen was aware of that location , and the Wistie lookouts were prepared to let the Ho ' Din visit the children . Eventually , Arawynne and her companions successfully escaped the compound . Personality and traits . Wen , like many Ho ' Din , was a lover of nature , and worked as a gardener . He was prepared to defy his owner , Gardulla Besadii the Elder , and do anything to protect the Ghostling children in his garden . Behind the scenes . Oo Wen was created by Dave Wolverton for " " , published by Scholastic in 2000 . Each installment in the young adults ' " " series came with two books . One was a regular story book ; the other was a game book that provided the reader with interactive choices to determine the outcome of the adventure . It is only the story book that mentions Oo Wen . Both the story book and the accompanying mention another , unidentified Ho ' Din . Those sections are told from the perspective of Sebulba the Dug , who does not know the Ho ' Din ' s name . It is therefore possible that this unnamed Ho ' Din is also intended to be Wen ; however , as there are multiple Ho ' Din gardeners working for Besadii , this article treats the two as separate individuals .