The man who made the world more beautiful: A passionate plantsman, Amos Perry introduced hundreds of hardy plants and inspired many to buy a water garden, complete with a tin of live frogs

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IT IS A RARE OCCURRENCE for an individual to cause a real sea change in the horticultural world. But nurseryman Amos Perry (1871-1953) managed just that at the beginning of the 20th century. He lured the public's attention away from spectacular — andmostly acid-loving — Chinese and Himalayan introductions, such as camellias, rhododendrons and magnolias, by staging a headline-grabbing, floor-to-ceiling display of nearly 30,000 delphinium spikes at the Society's 1910 Summer Show at Holland House inKensington, London.