Francis Higginson Cabot, CM CQ (August 6, 1925 – November 19, 2011) was an American financier, gardener and horticulturist.
[1] After WWII service in the United States Army (when he saw Japanese gardens for the first time), Cabot graduated in 1949 from Harvard College, where he was active in Hasty Pudding Theatricals and was one of the four founders of the a cappella singing group, the Harvard Krokodiloes.
[2] After college, he began constructing a garden on private property in Cold Spring, New York, above the Hudson River, beginning a lifelong passion for horticulture.
The Conservancy began with "four acres of giant cactuses, succulents and native species" in Walnut Creek, California, the life's work of gardener Ruth Bancroft.
[3] Cabot's private garden in the Charlevoix region of Quebec covers more than 20 acres (81,000 m2) and is called Les Quatre Vents.
[14] Cabot died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at his summer home in La Malbaie, Quebec, on November 19, 2011.