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Frank Kingdon-Ward

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Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) profoundly changed temperate gardens with his plant introductions, including more than twenty rhododendrons.

The son of Cambridge botanist Harry Marshall Ward, as a boy he overheard one of his father's colleagues say, "there are places up the Brahmaputra where no white man has ever been," a chance comment that was to determine his career. From 1910-1956 he searched for new and beautiful plants in the mountains of Tibet, China, Burma and India. Caught in a terrible earthquake in the Lohit Gorge, he saw the mountain forests "peeled off like wet paper." His introductions include Meconopsis betonicifolia and Primula florindae.

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