Reginald Farrer ( English Reginald John Farrer , February 17, 1880 - October 17, 1920 ) is an English traveler and collector of plants. He has published a number of books, the most famous of which is “My Rock Garden” (“My Rocky Garden”). He traveled through Asia in search of a variety of plants, many of which he brought to England and planted near his home in the village of Cleme, North Yorkshire.
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Author of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Farrer " . Personal page on IPNI website |
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Biography
Farrer was born in London into a well-to-do family, and subsequently resided in Klepem, North Yorkshire, England. Due to speech disorders and numerous operations on the palate, he was educated at home. During this period, he became interested in mountainous areas and mountain plants. At the age of ten, he was a fairly skilled botanist. At age 14, he made his first rock garden in an abandoned quarry .
He entered Oxford University at the age of 17 and graduated in 1902. During his studies there, he helped make a rock garden at St. Johns College, Oxford. In 1902, Farrer conducted the first of his expeditions to East Asia, visited China , Korea and Japan . The expedition lasted for eight months and, influenced by the tastes and traditions of Japanese gardening, he developed his views on the design of the rock garden, in which naturalism displaces formal artificiality and where alpine plants grow in an environment close to natural [4] . These travels led to the writing of The Garden of Asia (1904).
Farrer traveled extensively in the mountains of Italy, France and Switzerland, along with fellow gardeners, including Edward Bowles . In 1907, he also visited Sri Lanka .
In 1914, Farrer, together with William Perdom, carried out an expedition to Tibet and Gansu . They found there many plant specimens that replenished British gardens. Farrer described these two years of study and collection of plants in On the Eaves of the World (2 volumes) (1917) and in the posthumous The Rainbow Bridge (1921).
Farrer's last trip to the mountains of Upper Burma was with his companion EH M Cox, who described the trip in his book Farrer's Last Journey, Upper Burma 1919-20 (Farrer's Last Journey, Upper Burma 1919-20). This expedition was less successful than the previous ones, due to the fact that the climate of the Burmese mountains had less in common with the British than in Gansu.
Farrer sent the Scottish botanist Isaac Balfour for the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh his own botanical illustrations, along with field notes, botanical samples and seeds that he collected [5] .
Farrer died in 1920 in the mountains on the Burmese-Chinese border [6] , was buried in Burma.
Farrer brought exotic plants from Asia that can grow in the UK. These plants are not only for the rich, who can afford expensive greenhouses and personally gardeners.
Selected Publications
- The Garden of Asia (1904)
- My Rock Garden (1907)
- "In Old Ceylon" (1908)
- Alpines and Bog Plants (1908)
- "In a Garden Yorkshire" (1909)
- “Among the Hills” (1910)
- "The English Rock-Garden: Volumes 1 and 2" (1913)
- “The Dolomites: King Laurin's Garden” (1913)
- "On the Eaves of the World" (1917)
- The Rainbow Bridge (1921)
- Mimpish Squinnies (2007)
Plants named after Farrera
- Allium farreri Stearn
- Amitostigma farreri
- " Bulbophyllum farreri "
- Codonopsis farreri
- Cypripedium farreri
- Gentiana farreri
- Geranium farreri
- " Picea farreri "
- " Rosa farreri "
- " Viburnum farreri "
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 128884576 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Pas L. v. Genealogics - 2003. - ed. size: 683713
- ↑ National Library of Australia - 1960.
- ↑ Hobson, Amanda . Reginal Farrer of Clapham , North Craven Heritage Trust. Date of treatment June 7, 2007.
- ↑ Hobson, Amanda . REGINALD FARRER OF CLAPHAM , North Craven Heritage Trust. Date of treatment June 7, 2007.
- ↑ M. Cox in “Country Life”, October 17, 1925: see Mark Hedges (ed.) “The Glory of the Garden: a Horticultural Celebration” (“Country Life”, 2012)