page_title: George Fergusson Wilson
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: George Fergusson Wilson / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: A peaceful June scene at RHS Wisley
context_page_description: George Fergusson Wilson was an English industrial chemist.
context_section_description: Wilson retired from his position of managing director in 1863, and in later life lived at Wisley, Surrey, where he devoted himself to experimental gardening on a wide scale. He was particularly successful as a cultivator of lilies. The garden he created at Wisley went to the Royal Horticultural Society, becoming the RHS Garden. 
  Wilson died at Weybridge Heath on 28 March 1902.
caption: RHS Wisley today
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