Richard Wilford is a horticulturist with a specialist interest in montane plants and geophytes,^[1] who is a collections manager at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is on the editorial committee of Curtis's Botanical Magazine and Kew Magazine and a member of the Royal Horticultural Society Daffodil and Tulip Committee.

Wilford, R. Tulips: Species and Hybrids for the Gardener (2006) Timber Press ISBN 0881927635

Wilford, R. Alpines, from Mountain to Garden (2010) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Botanical Magazine Monograph ISBN 1842461729

Ed. Brian Mathew; Boyce. P, Mayo, S., Wilford, R., Bogner, J. Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 12, Part 3, August 1995 - devoted to the Araceae ASIN B007J9IX9U

Wilford, R. (2010). Tropaeolum tricolor. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 27 (3): 262—267.^[2]

Wilford, Richard (1999), "Roscoeas for the rock garden", Quarterly Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, 67 (1): 93–101

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