Robin Herbert, who has died aged 89, was a dendrologist and City financier who helped to transform the fortunes of the Royal Horticultural Society and who left a splendid natural legacy in his own Welsh woodlands and gardens.
AS nocturnal creatures who are rarely glimpsed, an owl gazing at you with imperial scorn from the corner of some abandoned barn or perched on the branch of a moonlight dappled tree, is always a sight to behold and a memory to treasure.