Authors

Richard Wilford

Richard Wilford has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for 17 years and is currently the collections manager responsible for alpines, bulbs and herbaceous perennials. For more than six years he looked after the extensive bulb collection in Kew’s Alpine Nursery, including the cultivation and propagation of the tulip collection. He then moved to the Rock Garden, growing a range of alpines and bulbs planted in the open. Richard has written articles for a range of publications as well as a book about alpine and bulbous plants that have been featured in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, where he serves on the editorial committee.